We'll get there

International Friendly
8pm, Wednesday 20 August 2008
Wembley Stadium

England midfielder Joe Cole believes that the Three Lions can take the positives from Wednesday's friendly game with the Czech Republic at Wembley.

Cole netted a late goal to seal a 2-2 draw, although England were consistently denied by opposition goalkeeper Petr Cech, ironically one of Cole's Chelsea team-mates.

With the first World Cup qualifying game against Andorra coming up in just over a week, Cole admitted the team were disappointed not to have won the game and are now doubly keen to put things right in Barcelona a week on Saturday.

"We don't like it as much as them (the Czechs), so we're going to go home disappointed because we've not won at Wembley when we should have won," he said.

"I'm a fan first and foremost and I want England to do well and all we can do is to try and take away the positives.

"We'd like to tell the fans that we take full responsibility and it's on us to get to the World Cup and that's the be all and end all for the next 18 months."

With many of the players in Fabio Capello's squad proving key members of their successful club sides, Cole says there is a lot of hard work going on to try and recreate those performances for the Three Lions.

"It's up to us to try and take that club form into England games and, believe me, we're working hard at that," he added.

"We're coming together, working hard and talking about it amongst ourselves and we will get there, I'm sure of that.

"We have a good set of lads in there, with good players and I'm sure we'll get where we want to go."

Teams

England
1 David James, 2 Wes Brown, 3 Ashley Cole, 4 Gareth Barry, 5 Rio Ferdinand (15 Jonathan Woodgate, 58), 6 John Terry (c), 7 David Beckham (19 Jermaine Jenas, 79), 8 Frank Lampard (17 David Bentley, 79), 9 Jermain Defoe (21 Emile Heskey, 46), 10 Steven Gerrard (20 Joe Cole, 58), 11 Wayne Rooney (18 Stewart Downing, 68)

Substitutes not used
12 Paul Robinson, 13 Glen Johnson, 14 Wayne Bridge, 16 Matthew Upson, 22 Theo Walcott, 23 Joe Hart.

Manager
Fabio Capello

Czech Republic
1 Petr Cech, 2 Zdeněk Grygera (12 Zdenek Pospech, 46), 21Tomaš Ujfalusi (c), 22 David Rozehnal, 6 Marek Jankulovski, 11 Stanislav Vlcek (14 David Jarolim, 46), 5 Radoslav Kovac, (3 Jan Rajnoch, 76), 8 Jan Polak, 20 Jaroslav Plasil (9 Michal Papadopulos, 90+2), 17 Radek Sirl, (Michal Kadlac, 76), 15 Milan Baros (19 Vaclav Sverkos, 46).

Substitutes not used
23 Daniel Zitka.

Manager
Petr Rada

Team Colours

England
White shirts, blue shorts, white socks

Czech Republic
Red shirts, red shorts, red socks

Attendance
69,738