'I should have scored'

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Steven Gerrard was left to reflect on his missed chance on a terrible night for the Three Lions.

With England one-up through Wayne Rooney's stunning volley, the stand-in skipper had a wonderful opportunity to extend his side's lead five minutes after the break.

After escaping the attention of his marker, Gerrard set himself to volley Gareth Barry's free-kick but watch agonisingly as his close range effort ruffled the side-netting.

"I had a glorious chance at 1-0 - which I should have scored - but we let them back in the game and that gave them the momentum to get a second," said the Liverpool midfielder.

"We knew it would be difficult, but 1-1 would have done us. They got confidence from the penalty and obviously they were on the front foot and put us under a lot of pressure."

Gerrard thought the penalty, given against Rooney despite TV replays showing the foul to be outside of the box, was the critical part of the game.

"We had the game exactly where we wanted it," he said. "They were running out of ideas - then came the big turning point and we had a mad, crazy five minutes.

"We were controlling the game - and, although they had a lot of possession, we should have gone on and won the game.

"We said at half-time 'let's keep a clean sheet and we are through'."

England need results to go their way if they are to qualify for Euro 2008 - Russia will book their place if they win their remaining two games while Croatia need just one victory from two matches.

"There's nothing we can do now - it's out of our hands. Israel are capable of getting a result - but with them not being able to qualify, it's a difficult situation."

Team details:

England: 1 Paul Robinson, (Tottenham Hotspur), 2 Micah Richards, (Manchester City), 3 Joleon Lescott, (Everton) (15 Frank Lampard, (Chelsea), 79) 4 Steven Gerrard (c), (Liverpool), 5 Rio Ferdinand, (Manchester United), 6 Sol Campbell, (Portsmouth), 7 Gareth Barry, (Aston Villa), 8 Shaun Wright Phillips, (Chelsea) (17 Stewart Downing, (Middlesbrough), 79)   9 Wayne Rooney, (Manchester United), 10 Michael Owen, (Newcastle United), 11 Joe Cole, (Chelsea) (18 Peter Crouch (Liverpool), 79).

Subs not used: 12 Nicky Shorey, (Reading),13 David James, (Portsmouth), 14 Luke Young, (Middlesbrough), 16 Phil Neville, (Everton).

Bookings: Rio Ferdinand (57 minutes), Wayne Rooney (67 minutes).

Head Coach: Steve McClaren

Russia: 30 Vladimir Gabulov, (Kuban Krasnodar), 27 Aleksei Berezutski (CSKA Moscow), 5 Sergei Ignashevich, (CSKA Moscow), 2 Vasili Berezutski, (CSKA Moscow) (7 Dmitri Torbinskiy, (Spartak Moscow), 46) 18 Yuri Zhirkov, (CSKA Moscow), 15 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, (Lokomotiv Moscow), 20 Igor Semshov, (Dynamo Moscow), 17 Konstantin Zyrianov, (Zenit St Petersburg), 22 Aleksandr Anyukov, (Zenit St Petersburg), 10 Andrei Arshavin, (Zenit St Petersburg) (25 Denis Kolodin, (Dynamo Moscow), 89) 11 Aleksandr Kerzhakov, (Sevilla) (19 Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), 45).

Subs not used: 16 Vyacheslav Malafeev, (Zenit St Petersburg), 13 Pavel Pogrebnyak, (Zenit St Petersburg), 14 Roman Shirokov, (Khimki), 26 Dmitri Sychev, (Lokomotiv Moscow). 

Bookings: Vasili Berezutski (13 minutes), Roman Pavlyuchenko (74 minutes).

Coach: Guus Hiddink 

Match Official Details:

Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

Assistant Referees: Victoriano Giraldez Carrasco and Jesus Calvo Guadamuro (both Spain)

Fourth Official: Antonio Rubinow Perez (Spain)