Montenegro 2 England 2

In the tenth min­ute of the qual­i­fy­ing mat­ch, Ar­senal mid­fielder Theo Wal­cott fou­nd Man­chester United´s Ash­ley Young who head­ed ho­me to give Eng­land the lead be­fore a dan­ger­ous low cross ball from the Old Traf­ford the wing­er was con­ver­ted by As­ton Vil­la stri­ker Dar­ren Bent twenty min­utes la­ter. Backed by a bois­ter­ous and thun­der­ous ho­me crowd, Montenegro pulled a goal back on ha­lf-time as Elsad Zverot­ic sent a de­flec­ted shot pa­st Eng­land cus­todi­an Joe Hart and in­to the back of the net. Af­ter the re­sump­tion, Eng­land man­ager Fa­bio Capello ev­entually de­cided to re­place Young and Bent wi­th Liverpool´s Stew­art Down­ing and Frank Lam­pard of Chel­sea re­spect­ively. There was dra­ma, how­ever, when Eng­land front­man Way­ne Roo­ney was han­ded his march­ing or­ders by Ger­man re­fer­ree Wolf­gang Stark for kick­ing out at Montenegro cent­ral de­fender Mi­odrag Dzudovic sev­en­teen min­utes from nor­mal time. In mit­ig­a­tion, tho­ugh, the who­le damned at­mo­sphere at The City Sta­dium in the Montenegrin cap­it­al of Podgor­ica was hardly con­du­cive to­wards an en­joy­able and in­cid­ent-free en­counter. Wi­th Capello´s Eng­land te­am re­duced to ten men, The Brave Fal­cons were able to ap­ply at lot more pres­sure and the frantic ho­me play­ers fi­nally ma­naged to level the score when an ac­cur­ate cross ball from 20-year-old Man­chester City de­fender Stefan Savic was met by strong run­ning Rayo Val­le­cano centre for­ward An­drija De­li­basic who head­ed the ball pa­st the Eng­land net­mind­er and in­to the goal to make it 2-2 in the last min­ute of nor­mal play­ing time. Montenegro Te­am: Mladen Bozovic, Mi­odrag Dzudovic, Stefan Savic, Elsad Zverot­ic, Vladi­mir Bozovic, Mladen Kas­celan, Mi­lorad Pekovic, Si­mon Vuk­cevic, Fa­tos Be­ciraj, Stevan Jovet­ic, Mirko Vu­cin­ic. Sub­stitutes: Ra­doslav Batak, Mil­an Jovan­ovic, Marko Cetkovic, De­jan Dam­jan­ovic, An­drija De­li­basic, Radomir Dja­lovic, Srdan Bla­zic. Eng­land Te­am: Joe Hart, Ga­ry Ca­hill, John Terry, Gar­eth Bar­ry, Phil Jones, Ash­ley Young, Ash­ley Cole, Scott Par­ker, Theo Wal­cott, Dar­ren Bent, Way­ne Roo­ney. Sub­stitutes: Phil Ja­gielka, Leigh­ton Baines, Stew­art Down­ing, Frank Lam­pard, Dan­ny Wel­beck, Bob­by Zamora, Scott Carson.

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