England beat Kazakhstan by five goals to one in the first world cup qualifier ever played at the new Wembley stadium.

The score flattered England who were poor. Capello started with a strange lopsided 4-3-3 formation. Upson replaced Terry at the back. The first half was terrible. I lost count of the number of passes that went astray from usually reliable players like Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney. Only Walcott looked good on the right.

The second half was better for England. Capello reverting to 4-4-2 with Wright-Philips replacing Gareth Barry. Although it was Kazakhstan who could have opened the scoring after two minutes.
Ferdinand scored the opening goal after 52 minutes taking the pressure off with a header from a corner.

An own goal gave England a 2-0 lead before Ashley Cole made a howler of a mistake passing across field to let in Kukeyev who coolly scored.

A tense 14 minutes passed before Rooney scored England third.
Beckham came on to load cheers to win his 106th cap equalling Bobby Charlton and moving to joint third in the all time list.
Rooney also scored the fourth. He was then substituted by Defoe who scored the fifth.

Never has a scoreline flattered a team more than this one.
Kazakhstan are ranked 131st in FIFA's World rankings. They gave four youngsters starting debuts.

Against a better team England would have lost by a similar score.
I lost count of the number of times I shouted "What the ******* **** was that" as passes were mis-directed, overhit or both. Terrible stuff.

England: James, Brown, Cole, Ferdinand, Upson, Gerrard, Barry (Wright-Phillips 45), Lampard, Walcott (Beckham 79), Heskey, Rooney (Defoe 86).
Subs Not Used: Carson, Johnson, Bridge, Crouch.

Goals: Ferdinand 52, Kuchma 65 og, Rooney 77, 86, Defoe 90.

Kazakhstan: Mokin, Kirov (Sabalakov 85), Kuchma, Kislitsyn, Nusserbayev, Skorykh, Ostapenko (Maltsev 76), Baltiyev, Ibrayev, Kukeyev, Logvinenko.
Subs Not Used: Morev, Nurdauletov, Vorotnikov, Maxim Azovskiy, Beissenov.

Goals: Kukeyev 68.

Att: 89,107