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Three months ago we were minutes away from beating Brazil in the Maracana, earning a creditable draw against the favourites for the World Cup. That Brazil team went on to rip Spain apart, a team we beat the last time we played them courtesy of a Lampard goal. I don't pretend that we're one of...

Sturridge, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck, Wilshere, Barkley, Rooney, Lampard, Gerrard, Walcott. The question is whether a combination of these guys can a) stay fit, and b) produce some magic. I think we have a chance, but need 2 or 3 of the younger players to have big seasons.

Reality check. The best England team of recent times was Bobby Robson's England side that got to the WC1990. That team finished runner-up to Sweden in the qualifying group with 3 wins and 3 draws. We qualified as one of the best runners up. Interestingly, we didn't concede a goal in that group...

You make it sound as though it's easy to walk into Kiev and take 3 points off them in front of a partisan 70k crowd without our best strikers. The fact is England have NEVER found these sort of matches easy. The teams of 90 or 96 wouldn't have won that match either.

If you think this England squad is capable of winning every match then that is not going. Hodgson's done well since he took over. If this side are going to do anything in a tournament it'll be a a couple of draws, a couple of extra times and a couple of 90 minute wins. Games like this are a...

And I really fancy us to beat Montenegro and Poland too. The likes of Lampard and Gerrard played it safe tonight, but they know tonight was a must not lose game. Montenegro will have to come at us at Wembley because they have to win. There will be space and a big crowd, the strikers are back...

FFS do you know anything about qualifying for big tournaments?

0-0 f/t. Good result, we have the platform to win the group with two home games left.

Lambert looks shattered.

What do people expect with no Rooney and no Welbeck?

I think Hodgson should keep this line-up, let Ukraine blink first.

Players who are looking for it get pens all the time. Michael Owen won a couple of crucial pens for England and later admitted he was looking for them and went down easy. I still think it was a pen here.

Er, penalty?

It's got 0-0 written all over it.