Perfect 10 for England in Euro 2016 qualifying

Phil Jagielka has described the decision to make him England captain for tonight’s match against Lithuania as “an honour”.

The first real chance of the game was created in the 10th minute when Harry Kane as he slipped into a few space on the left before sending a shot that came close to the bottom corner.

“The tougher the games the better and hopefully all of us have done ourselves no harm tonight”. It’s good preparation for us.

“I think seven were missing through injury before Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney and now I’ve sent five home – that’s a team, really”, claimed the former Liverpool boss.

Kane heads the first goalscorer betting at 100/30 and is enhanced from 6/5 to 7/4 to net in an England win in Sky Bet’s Price Boosts, while Lukas Spalvis is rated the hosts’ biggest threat at 11/1 to break the deadlock.

“We knew it was going to be a hard task to win all 10 but that was the game plan from day one and obviously we managed to do it”, he said.

In qualifying for next summer’s tournament in France, the Three Lions are only the sixth team in history to so without dropping a point and their tally of 31 goals (and just three against) will give the squad confidence ahead of a competition they have never won.

The Football Association, which has been warned by FIFA about the chants before, will be hoping the skirmishes do not overshadow the impressive achievement of Hodgson and his players.

The Lithuanian supporters booed God Save The Queen, before the England fans started singing anti-IRA songs.

He certainly had chances, only to be denied by the saves of Giedrius Arlauskis.

“I was unlucky not to score officially”.

“It does give me great heart that we do have quality players coming through in this country, and if and when we get the players back that helped us in the start of the campaign we will have quite a strong squad to choose from”.

England ended their Euro 2016 qualification campaign as they’d begun it, with an easy win to make it ten victories from ten matches. “We were a bit concerned with the flight and the artificial pitch, so in a choice of taking him or Smalling, I went with Smalling”. But qualification was the main thing.

Tottenham have not lost a Premier League match since the opening day, with Mauricio Pochettino’s side happy to “stay under the radar” in the race for a top-four finish.

Man of the moment Ross Barkley opened the scoring after 28 minutes when his 20-yard shot went in courtesy of a deflection off Tomas Mikuckis.