England

5-1

Kazakhstan

Ferdinand 52, Kuchma OG 64, Rooney 76, 86, Defoe 90

Kukeyev 68


2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifier, Group Six
5.15pm, Saturday 11 October 2008
Wembley Stadium
Live on ITV
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Fabio Capello was pleased with his team's 5-1 win against Kazakhstan at Wembley, particularly during a second half that saw them brush their World Cup qualifying opponents aside.

The result means England have a 100 per cent success rate after three games, and they sit clear at the top of Group Six following Ukraine's 0-0 with Croatia. 

But it took until 52 minutes for The Three Lions to find the breakthrough, when captain Rio Ferdinand headed in.

Two goals from Ferdinand's Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney, a strike from substitute Jermain Defoe and an own goal followed.

"It's a good result," said Capello. "We played a good second half and also the first half was good. After 2-0 we had more occasions to score the third goal."

England manager Fabio Capello, who earlier in the week had urged supporters to get behind the national team, was disappointed when the Wembley crowd booed Ashley Cole

The Chelsea defender's pass back allowed the visitors a consolation goal thanks to the onrushing striker Zhambyl Kukeyev and briefly let the Kazakhs back into the game at 2-1.

Capello added: "I don't understand why the crowd boo against one player.

"When you play you can do a mistake. It is easy. The crowd help us a lot but I do not understand why they are against us for one mistake."

England
1 David James (Portsmouth), 2 Wes Brown (Manchester United), 3 Ashley Cole (Chelsea), 4 Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), 5 Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), 6 Matthew Upson (West Ham United), 7 Theo Walcott (Arsenal) (15 David Beckham (LA Galaxy), 79) 8 Frank Lampard (Chelsea), 9 Emile Heskey (Wigan Athletic), 10 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) (17 Jermain Defoe (Portsmouth) 87), 11 Gareth Barry (Aston Villa) (16 Shaun Wright-Phillips, 46)
Substitutes not used 12 Scott Carson (West Bromwich Albion), 13 Glen Johnson (Portsmouth), 14 Wayne Bridge (Chelsea), 18 Peter Crouch (Portsmouth)

Manager
Fabio Capello

Kazakhstan
1 Alexandr Mokin (Alma-Ata), 3 Alexandr Kirov (Alma-Ata) (13 Talgat Sabalakov, 85) 4 Alexandr Kuchma (Astana), 5 Alexandr Kislitsyn (Shakhtyor), 7 Tanat Nusserbayev (Ordabasy), 8 Sergey Skorykh (Tobyl), 9 Sergey Ostapenko (Alma-Ata) (17 Gleb Maltsev, 76) 10 Rulsan Baltiyev (Tobyl), 16 Sabyrkhan Ibrayev (Tobyl), 21 Zhambyl Kukeyev (Alma-Ata), 14 Yuriy Logvinenko (Aktobe)
Substitutes not used 18 Andrey Morev (Aktobe), 2 Kairat Nurdauletov (Tobyl), 15 Ilya Vorotnikov (Alma-Ata), 20 Maxim Azovskiy (Alma-Ata), 23 Bekzat Beissenov (Ordabasy)

Manager
Bernd Storck

Referee
Paul Allaerts

Assistant Referees
Danny Huens
Vincent Despiegeleer

Fourth Official
Peter Vervecken

Team Colours

England
White shirts, white shorts, white socks

Kazakhstan
Blue shirts, blue shorts, blue socks

Attendance: 89107