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Capello still not satisfied

02 Apr 2009 - 08:02:36

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England coach Fabio Capello admitted there was still room for improvement after watching his side maintain their 100 per cent start to their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 2-1 victory against Ukraine.

England played well in the first half and led at the break thanks to Peter Crouch's goal but were less impressive in the second period.

Andriy Shevchenko grabbed a 74th-minute equaliser for the visitors only for John Terry to fire home England's late winner.

Capello said after the Wembley success: "I'm happy because we won the game - it was very important because we knew Ukraine would be a very strong team.

"They've just started their league and are fresh, while we are at the end of our season. This is a big difference.

"The players played very well and without fear.

"We played the first half very well, the second a little less. In midfield we lost a lot of balls and the movement was not as we had prepared.

"We played slowly and missed a lot of easy and important passes. Ukraine were fresh so we needed to play more quickly and this is impossible with us at the end of our season.

"It will be very long until the Kazakhstan game and I hope when we start training for the next two games the players will be in a better physical condition then they are now."