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Despite being completely dominant in the first half against Montenegro, England were lucky to escape with a point from Podgorica Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
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More from Keano: "What will define Roy Hodgson or any other England manager is how they do in the big games and so far they have come up short every single time, whether it was in the Euros or these qualifiers."
It's difficult to argue with any of that and this result leaves England second in Group H, two points behind Montenegro. It's a far from disastrous result, but the manner of England's second-half capitulation, not to mention their utter failure to cope with Montenegro's tactical changes, will be a source of grave concern to their fans.
Daniel Taylor has already file his report from Podgorica and you can read his observations here. He'll file a rewrite complete with quotes in an hour or so, opnce Roy Hodgson has been grilled by an England press pack that will be far from satisfied with tonight's performance. That's all from me, thanks for your time and your emails.
10.04pm GMT
In the ITV studio: "I'd love to know what happened at half-time," says analyst Roy Keane. "I can't believe how bad England were in the second half."
It's not that difficult to see what happened. Montengro manager made a shrewd tactical switch which nullified the contribution going forward of England's full-backs and clearly instructed his central midfielders to give Tom Cleverley and Michael Carrick far less time on the ball. Under extreme pressure, they went from retaining the ball and pinging it around under pressure to being completely overrun. That was a shocking second half performance from England.
9.57pm GMT
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeep! It's all over and England emerge from a contest they completely bossed for 45 minutes with just a point. This was the definitive game of two halves; the Montenegro team that emerged after the break were unrecognisable from the rabble that let England dominate them in the opening 45 minutes and did more than enough to overturn England's one-goal advantage ... apart from, em, scoring a second goal.
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<LI id=contrib-shift sizset="false" sizcache05286793453575123="31.4.672">- Barry Glendenning
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 March 2013 18.16 EDT
Despite being completely dominant in the first half against Montenegro, England were lucky to escape with a point from Podgorica Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images Live
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More from Keano: "What will define Roy Hodgson or any other England manager is how they do in the big games and so far they have come up short every single time, whether it was in the Euros or these qualifiers."
It's difficult to argue with any of that and this result leaves England second in Group H, two points behind Montenegro. It's a far from disastrous result, but the manner of England's second-half capitulation, not to mention their utter failure to cope with Montenegro's tactical changes, will be a source of grave concern to their fans.
Daniel Taylor has already file his report from Podgorica and you can read his observations here. He'll file a rewrite complete with quotes in an hour or so, opnce Roy Hodgson has been grilled by an England press pack that will be far from satisfied with tonight's performance. That's all from me, thanks for your time and your emails.
10.04pm GMT
In the ITV studio: "I'd love to know what happened at half-time," says analyst Roy Keane. "I can't believe how bad England were in the second half."
It's not that difficult to see what happened. Montengro manager made a shrewd tactical switch which nullified the contribution going forward of England's full-backs and clearly instructed his central midfielders to give Tom Cleverley and Michael Carrick far less time on the ball. Under extreme pressure, they went from retaining the ball and pinging it around under pressure to being completely overrun. That was a shocking second half performance from England.
9.57pm GMT
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeep! It's all over and England emerge from a contest they completely bossed for 45 minutes with just a point. This was the definitive game of two halves; the Montenegro team that emerged after the break were unrecognisable from the rabble that let England dominate them in the opening 45 minutes and did more than enough to overturn England's one-goal advantage ... apart from, em, scoring a second goal.
Wayne Rooney, right, scores England's only goal against Montenegro after only six minutes of the game. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
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