Five-star England bound for World Cup after Noni Madueke leads rout of Serbia

It was the night when Thomas Tuchel located the ignition point for his England tenure, when all of the grumbling that had followed him to Belgrade seemed to float away. The manager needed a result to allow his team to take control of this World Cup qualifying group and a performance, too, after the flatness of much of what had gone before.

Tuchel got both, his players a class apart from the first whistle, Serbia left to look dishevelled, their problems everywhere. It is a troubling moment for their country, anti-government protests gaining in intensity and there were chants of that nature here. The manager, Dragan Stojkovic, is under heavy fire. Where now for him after this?