England 1-0 Sweden: English youth reaps win - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Gareth Barry's deflected header gave England their second win in three days as the Three Lions beat Sweden 1-0. Barry's goal on 20 minutes was the country's 2,000th goal and the only goal of this game as Fabio Capello's men cruised to victory at Wembley.

By Chris Wright

Not that it really mattered, but England broke a 43-year hoodoo by beating Sweden for the first time in 13 games at a sparsely-populated Wembley last night, with the narrow victory also affording them their first defeat-less calendar year since 1994.

By Chris Wright

We'll have some proper reaction up once we've cobbled it together later this morning but, rather than the obligatory draw, a largely second-string England actually beat Sweden for the first time since the year of our Lord 1968 (13 games if you're counting) at Wembley last night a 22nd-minute own-goal from centre-half Daniel Majstorovic (with a cunning assist from Gareth Barry) eventually proving to be the difference between the two sides.

By Chris Wright

We'll have some proper reaction up once we've cobbled it together later this morning but, rather than the obligatory draw, a largely second-string England actually beat Sweden for the first time since the year of our Lord 1968 (13 games if you're counting) at Wembley last night a 22nd-minute own-goal from centre-half Daniel Majstorovic (with a cunning assist from Gareth Barry) eventually proving to be the difference between the two sides.

England vs Sweden Score 1-0 Highlights Majstorovic own goal Video 2011 Friendly is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

England vs Sweden Score 1-0 Highlights Majstorovic own goal Video 2011 Friendly is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter England vs Sweden 2011 ( Eng-Swe video below) Final score and result:- England vs Sweden 1-0 ( Daniel Majstorovic own goal) Wembley Stadium, London, 15 November, 2011- International football friendly Daniel Majstorovic's [.

Hamren has called up the troops for action and its time for a little analysis of what is coming our way on the 7th of October. Here is the full squad:

Andreas Isaksson, Johan Wiland

Mikael Lustig, Pierre Bengtsson, Andreas Granqvist, Daniel Majstorovic, Olof Mellberg, Jonas Olsson, Martin Olsson

Emir Bajrami, Christian Wilhelmsson, Rasmus Elm, Johan Elmander, Alexander Gerndt, Samuel Holmen, Tobias Hysen, Kim Källström, Sebastian Larsson, Anders Svensson, Ola Toivonen, Pontus Wernbloom, Zlatan Ibrahimovic

So these are the guys who are going to go toe to toe with the Finns.

As the results began filtering through from the different corners of Europe as Europa League matches concluded, a feeling that this tournament means something, despite its marginalisation as UEFA's second class competition, was also transmitted. This should be qualified, however, by mentioning its level of importance appears to differ accordingly, as by the end of the night some rather illustrious clubs with rather weighty histories were bitterly reminded that these games are won or lost on the park and not on the length of a CV.

The curtain comes down on domestic football for another season.
Yesterday's Scottish Cup will not perhaps be long remembered as a classic. Celtic too often seemed unable to click through the gears, that lent long periods of the game a scrappiness that seemed to offer Motherwell their best hope.