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Winning start for CapelloEngland improved dramatically as the match progressed to give Italian Fabio Capello a winning start as coach with a 2-1 victory over Switzerland in a friendly international at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday.
Midfielder Jermaine Jenas scored his first England goal and the first of the Capello era with a first-time left foot shot after superb work down the left from Joe Cole after 40 minutes.
Switzerland, co-hosts of the European Championship in June which England failed to qualify for, equalised when debutant Eren Derdiyok, a halftime substitute for Blaise N’Fuko, scored with a well struck left-foot shot on the turn after 58 minutes.
That goal came one minute after Capello substituted Cole and Jenas for Peter Crouch and Shaun Wright-Phillips, but England regained the lead four minutes later with a move started and finished by Crouch and Wright-Phillips.
Crouch won a midfield heading duel to set the impressive Wayne Rooney away and he found skipper Steven Gerrard whose cross left Wright-Phillips with an easy chance in front of an empty net.
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