England EgyptEngland Egypt: BEANPOLE striker Peter Crouch and hopes altitude 45 minutes veil convinced Fabio Capello to hand him over to the World Cup starting slot.
And recognizes the Tottenham Hotspur striker reddish after replacing club-mate Jermain Defoe at the end of the first half, firing a double to erase Mohamed Zidan in the opening match.
Fellow sub Shaun Wright-Phillips also hit the target as England recovered from a dismal first-half display to canter to victory in the last international match before Capello names his provisional squad for South Africa.
Crouch, who now has a huge amount of 20 goals from 37 caps, said: “Whoever plays for England will feel under pressure, and certainly in World Cup year.
He added that “up to the Director. All you have to do when given a chance to try it and I have given something to think about Fabio.”
Capello praised the two goal striker said: “Crouch is a great option for me because sometimes you can play long ball. Today, however, did not play long ball. We have played well with some good touches.
“In the second half made the difference because when you go to the other team go forward with him.
“In the first half we had a lot of opportunities but did not score. I changed some players and said we need to put pressure on the ball and win it again quickly.”
Ruled out captain John Terry who was the first touch booed by a large number of fans booed, but 80,000 had turned to cheers by the time the steam in a couple of addresses after the end of the first half.
Egypt, 17th in the rankings, it looked full of confidence early on and most of the possession of the ball, but England created the first clear chance after five minutes.
Wayne Rooney and Walcott chose to run behind the defense and low-wing Center totally fell apart in the way of Frank Lampard, who fired directly at the goalkeeper Essam El Hadary.
Rooney looked lively and El fumbled a campaign of urban Manchester United hitman.
But England were indebted to the goal-line clearance from Defoe after Rob Green was slow to respond to a single bullet struck in the land of Wael Gomaa after a corner kick by Zidane.
Il urban cut out a cross from Gareth Barry and England began to settle despite the fact that Zidane was not only just a very high shot from a tight angle.
The fans in stunned silence after 23 minutes when placed Egypt by Zidane following a slip by Matthew Upson.
West Ham defender and went down to the ground and allowed to take a pass from Zidane, Hosni Abd-Rabbo on track.
But he still appears in the first class and control the completion of clinical drilling his shot past Green.
Was another reminder of the nature of the poor from the surface and Wembley, which was copped criticism after the Carling Cup final. England tried to reply and Rooney headed the ball wide from Steven Gerrard in a chip inside the penalty area.
Then I found a corner from Lampard Leighton Baines at the far post but his shot bounced down and over the bar.
Defoe is only to be very high with a header before flashing urban newspaper was shot to advance on this post.
Capello, however, satisfied with his team in the first half of the year interesting presentation, the double-switch when the interval, taking off and Defoe, Crouch, Lampard and Michael Carrick.
Side of the house, which was poor and the distribution of fully-hit a pass from Gerrard, Rooney, who aims to run and summarized the evening.
But out of nowhere Crouch fired England level in 56 minutes. Gerrard and Barry found in space on the right of the box and low cross was expertly converted by Spurs star.
Gerrard was replaced by James Milner, who gave him an immediate impact on England took the lead with 15 minutes from the end of the game.
He saw Aston Villa midfielder a shot beaten by El-urban and Wright-Phillips converted a binding despite the fact that the Egyptian keeper should have done better with his attempts to disrupt the weak.
Then Crouch for the second time to the maximum fine night of work.
This time, Wright-Phillips was the creator of this, although Crouch looked offside when he shot home 10 minutes from the end of the game.
Egypt coach Hassan Shehat asaid: “Thesecond goal was offside but the referee was fair.
“It was our first match since winning the African Cup of Nations, and we are preparing our team for a new system and a new style, and we missed some opportunities that could have changed the outcome.”
England – Green, Brown, Terry, Upson, Baines (Wright Phillips57), Lampard (Carrick46) and Barry, Steven Gerrard (Milner 73), Rooney (Cole 86), Defoe (Crouch 46).
Subs not used: James, Warnock, Lescott, Shawcross, Beckham, Heskey, Downing, Hart.
Egypt – El urban Mohammadi, he (Salim 86), Fathi Fri-Ghali, Moawad (Abdelshafy76), Hassan (Nagy64), Abed Rabbo, Zidane (Aboutreika76), Ebdelmaby (Zaki 64).
Subs not used: MR, Fathallah, and Tawfik, Mohammed Al Sakka, Rauf feast, Hamdi.
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