England vs Switzerland, Euro 2016 qualifying Group E: Latest score, news and result with our live minute-by-minute match report from St Jakob-Park in Basle
FULL TIME: SWITZERLAND 0 ENGLAND 2 Well, that's a nice shot in the arm for Roy, the England players and their fans. There was a lot of careless play, Wilshere was not convincing at the base of the diamond and Rooney wasn't great. On the other hand, England passed it pretty well, Sterling was bright and quick, Welbeck hit the target when given chances and there was some solid defending and keeping from Cahill, Jagielka and Hart. Not a performance to get carried away about, but on the other hand, it's a win away at the best team in the group, and you can't really say fairer than that. Pleased for Roy, that should keep people off his case for a bit. Sterling's rep continues to grow. All things considered, this is the best night for the England team in many a month. Thanks for following it with us, and goodnight.
GOAL! Good play England! Sterling plays it to Lambert, who holds the ball up nicely and times the pass well. Welbeck is onto it, and he's secured the points for England with a nice hard shot.Switzerland 0 England 2 (Welbeck 90+4) And that's the last meaningful kick of the game. Andrew Holgate writes:
GOAL! Good play England! Sterling plays it to Lambert, who holds the ball up nicely and times the pass well. Welbeck is onto it, and he's secured the points for England with a nice hard shot.Switzerland 0 England 2 (Welbeck 90+4) And that's the last meaningful kick of the game. Andrew Holgate writes:
<sees Welbeck has scored two goals>
<checks the date and sees April Fools has long since past>
<thinks there is a bug in the internet>
90+ mins: Danger here as England lose it and are stretched. Good covering from Phil Jags. Rodriguez has a shot that hits Stones on the foot, the deflection could have gone anywhere. It ends up in the arms of Joe Hart.
90+ mins: Decent break from England, Henderson freeing Sterling. Raheeeeeem sees Danny Wlebz on his right but just uses him as a decoy.
89 mins: Wayne Rooney leaves the field with yet another alright-ish England performance with which to burnish his legend. Rickie Lambert comes on and is soon booked for time-wasting.
88 mins: England, who have an average footballing IQ of about 73, keep pouring forward in attacks and nearly get caught in the break here.
85 mins: Rooney and Welbeck with a break, working together but then getting in each other's way. It's a corner. Cleared. Phil Martin:
I believe in the life and football you are either moving forwards or backwards.Each England performance seems a bit worse than the last one.
I believe in the life and football you are either moving forwards or
While I do feel that the entire England project is more or less totally hopeless, I'm not sure I agree. England have been less awful tonight than in some previous matches.
82 mins: England back off Gökhan Inler, giving him an age to line up a shot on the edge of the box. It skims the roof of the net. John Whelanwrites:
Alan Smith says there are four areas Hodgson must fix. Are they Goalie, defense, midfield, attack?
79 mins: Johan Djourou has ploughed through Delph at the edge of the Swiss box. Delph with a heavy touch an Djourou is lucky not to be blown up for a pen as he clatters him. In fact, Djourou has done himself a mischief in the process and there's a delay.
77 mins: Change of Phils, Jones off Jagielka on. Jags is in it right away, all hands to the pump for England at the moment. Jones had been moving poorly for some while, gone in the leg.
75 mins: Ruled offside, but a really gorgeous move from the Swiss as the ball is flicked in first time from the left, Haris Seferovic meets it with a delicious volley that hits the bar. Blerim Dzemaili comes on in place of Xhaka.
73 mins: James Milner, very much the international footballer equivalent of Switzerland the country, comes on. Shaqiri whips in a devil of a cross, Hart grabs it.
71 mins: World Class Wilshere is coming off, he's made one or two nice passes and an equal number of sloppy blunders that might have been punished by a sharper opponent.
69 mins: England opened up again! the ball's played through, Drmic is onto it, he goes around Hart and tries to roll it into the empty net. But there's Gary Cahill with the heroic sliding block! Swiss claim handball, not without some reason.
67 mins: The crowd boo because England play on when Behrami is down, putatively injured. David Lebof:
To follow up on Fred Roberts' comments, not only could it help England, it could help swing the vote in the upcoming referendum.
65 mins: And the sub is in the game right away, Drmic with a break and shot after Wilshere blunder.
63 mins: Admir Mehmedi comes off and Josip Drmic comes on