Sven-Goran Eriksson kept faith with the players who have taken England to the World Cup quarter-finals as Michael Owen passed a fitness test to take on Brazil.

Sven-Goran Eriksson kept faith with the players who have taken England to the World Cup quarter-finals as Michael Owen passed a fitness test to take on Brazil.

After France coach Roger Lemerre made optimistic noises about Zinedine Zidane’s return yesterday, the Real Madrid star has not even made the bench for the crunch clash with Uruguay.