Nerves affected us

International Friendly
8pm, Wednesday 6 February 2008
Wembley Stadium
Live on BBC1

Fabio Capello was pleased with a win in his first game in charge as England Manager and was encouraged by the defensive performance of his team, but will look at the game again to see if there are any new lessons he can learned.

Jermaine Jenas scored just before the break to settle the nerves at Wembley, and Shaun Wright-Phillips netted the winner after Switzerland had drawn level 13 minutes after half-time.

But despite the neat finish from substitute Eren Derdiyok, Capello was happy with the way his team, featuring Matthew Upson in his first appearance since November 2004, defended across the 90 minutes while creating a number of openings that could have seen the margin of victory extended.

"I must say we were quite nervous at the start, they may have still had at the back of their minds the failure to qualify for Euro 2008," said Capello. "Wembley always generates pressure on the players and they couldn't play as they wished at first.

"Then we created a lot of chances, but didn't take many because Switzerland had a very good goalkeeper. One of the things I was pleased with is that we didn't give them many goalscoring chances.

"Switzerland are a team that can create problems, but we made sure we were in a position where they didn't make problems for us.

"It was good for the morale for the team, but we need to analyse the game carefully. I need to look at the videos again, I've got an idea of how they scored and why, but from the bench you can't see perfectly. I have some ideas on the what mistakes we made. Perhaps that was the only defensive mistake we made in the game."

Capello also re-iterated what he expects from England's players as he gets to know them all in the early days of his time in charge.

"I believe that in order to play for England you need to be a great player and also play well. At first I think the players have to have the right qualities to play for their country and then secondly they have to be fit and perform at the right time."

He added: "I know I can rotate things, but I need to understand things and get to know players. There are matches when things go to plan and there are matches when things don't go to plan and that's when the we can see the character of the players."

England
1 David James, 2 Wes Brown, 3 Ashley Cole (16 Wayne Bridge, 74 mins), 4 Gareth Barry (18 Owen Hargreaves, 74 mins), 5 Rio Ferdinand, 6 Matthew Upson, 7 David Bentley, 8 Jermaine Jenas (17 Shaun Wright-Phillips, 57 mins), 9 Wayne Rooney (19 Ashley Young, 87 mins), 10 Steven Gerrard (c), 11 Joe Cole (21 Peter Crouch, 57 mins).

Substitutes 12 Scott Carson, 13 Micah Richards, 14 Joleon Lescott, 15 Jonathan Woodgate, 20 Michael Owen, 22 Jermain Defoe, 23 Chris Kirkland.

Switzerland
12 Diego Benaglio, 4 Philippe Senderos (13 Stephane Grichting, 55 mins), 10 Daniel Gygax (38 Eren Derdiyok, 46 mins), 16 Tranquillo Barnetta, 17 Christoph Spycher, 22 Hakan Yakin (5 Xavier Margairaz, 64 mins), 27 Gokhan Inler, 29 Stephan Lichsteiner (19 Valon Behrami, 46 mins), 31 Blaise Nkufo (28 Johann Vonlanthen, 46 mins), 33 Gelson Fernandes (24 Benjamin Huggel, 84 mins), 34 Mario Eggimann.

Substitutes 1 Pascal Zuberbuhler, 21 Fabio Coltorti, 30 Reto Ziegler.    
  
Kit Colours
England Red shirts, white shorts, red socks
Switzerland White shirts, red shorts, red socks

Match Officials

Referee Felix Bryche (Germany)

Assistant Referees Jan-Hendrik Salver and Kai Voss (Both Germany)

Fourth Official Martin Atkinson (England)

Attendance: 86,857