Eriksson confident England will be ready

Sven-Goran Eriksson insisted England would peak for the Euro 2004 finals despite being afflicted by tiredness in their penultimate warm-up game – 12 days before the opening group tie against France.

At the 2002 World Cup, England did not score once in the second-half of any of their five games and that failing was once again evident in their pre-tournament friendly against Japan last night.