LONDON -- Three quick points from England 2-0 Lithuania in World Cup qualifying on Sunday afternoon.
1. England cruising towards Russia
England's qualifying campaigns tend to feel a little like administrative procedures these days, the football equivalent of filling in the right forms in order to be allowed access to an exclusive club. Once in there, they tend to get thrown out well before midnight after making fools of themselves, but the business of getting there has become increasingly joyless.
Or, if you want to put it another way, efficient. That's probably the best way to describe the latest result, a 2-0 victory over Lithuania, the 107th-ranked team in the world, that put England on a steady course for World Cup 2018 qualification.