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There were other useful touches from Cleverley, notably zyhaa911 a back-headed flick thatVikings Jerseys almost sent Jermain Defoe in on goal, and on the half-hour, shortly after Lampard had doubled England's lead with a header from Glen Johnson's diagonal ball, he stabbed a low shot just wide of the post from 25 yards out.Not surprisingly, Moldova were unable to provide England with much more than a reasonable work-out before Tuesday's more challenging encounter with Ukraine at Wembley.
When Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain dismantled the entire left flank of the home defence byAuthentic Vikings Jerseys exchanging passes with Milner before moving forward and angling a short pass that invited Defoe to put England three up, the evening had the air of a training-ground exercise. With a little more coolness in front of goal from Defoe, and from Cleverley as he scooped a shot over the bar from Milner's pass, England might have doubled their score by half-time.
Cleverley was soon into the action after the restart, although Hodgson will not haveAdrian Peterson Jerseys enjoyed seeing him give the ball away with an over-ambitious long ball from the halfway line less than a minute into the second period. There had been enough of that from Steven Gerrard in the early stages of the first half, and even against the most modest opposition it is a dangerous habit. A few seconds later he could make only the sketchiest contact as he met a ball pulled back from the byline by Glen Johnson.
Until Milner scored his first senior goal from a move involving Cleverley and the Jared Allen Jerseystwo substitutes, Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck, England had laboured in the second half. But it was interesting to see Hodgson trying something other than 4-4-2, his players moving easily from their basic 4-2-3-1 to a 4-4-1-1 when their opponents had the ball. The manager will no doubt have other ideas in mind when all his injured players are available for selection, but in Cleverley he seems to have one who can be trusted not to leave the best of himself in the dressing room.
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