England 5-1 Kazakhstan

England impressed the sell-out Wembley Stadium, as they earned their third win of three games in the World Cup qualifiers on Saturday evening.

The first goal came from a Rio Ferdinand header, who stepped in as captain during John Terry’s absence from and earlier injury.

Then came an own goal from Kazakh defender, Alexandr Kuchma.

Zhambily Kukeyev fought back with a magnificent goal.

But Wayne ruined the match for the Kazakhs, as he headed home a Wes Brown Cross and nicely tapped in the ball from a Beckham free kick.

With Belarus on Wednesday, England are looking to become the only team ever to get 4 out of 4 wins in world cup qualifying stages.

They are the only team to have a perfect record in group 6 because of Ukraine and Croatia drawing 0-0.

England had a great start in Croatia last month, with a 4-1 win.

However, the match wasn’t as comfortable as the scoreline suggests for new manager Fabio Capello.

The first half produced no goals, and it seemed the 4-3-3 formation Capello had picked was breaking down as the game progressed.

Rooney was totally isolated out on the left, Hesky felt alone up front and Steven Gerrard failed to get forward. England weren’t getting any attacks in on Kazakhstan.

Half time came the tactical substitutions from the Gaffa, with Barry replaced by Shaun Wright-Phillips and the team now using a 4-4-2 formation.

It was still Kazakhstan who almost opened the scoring with two minutes gone in the second half.

It was a cross nodded on by Sergei Ostafenko that fell to Tenat Nusserbayev - a twenty-one year old Ordabasy player - who failed to keep his cool and hammered the shot over the crossbar.

Wright-Phillips came back looking set to score, but the shot was deflected wide and out from a corner.

But it was this corner when skipper Rio Ferdinand towered above Kazakhs defense to score Englands first goal of the match, and his third for England.

Shortly after, Lampards poorly defended free-kick set up an unlucky own goal from Kuchma.

However, Nusserbayev returned with a twenty-five yard screamer, to put Kazakhstan back in the game.

England waited until there were just fourteen minutes left and Brown’s superb cross was headed in by Wayne Rooney past the eyes of Alexandr Mokin.

It was David Beckham’s 106th cap for England, which is level with Sir Bobby Charlton, so he showed it off with a brilliant signature free kick, which was tapped into the goal for Rooneys second of the match.

The last goal came from Heskys pass to Defoe that was fired past the goalie into the far corner to make it 5-1.

Although three fantastic results from Enlgand, Capello knows better than anyone that World Cup qualification is still a long way off.