England win leaves Capello questioning

By Mike Collett

BARCELONA (Reuters) - England's 2-0 win over Andorra in their opening World Cup qualifier on Saturday left coach Fabio Capello with more questions than answers before their next match against Croatia on Wednesday.

Capello said after their opening match in Group Six he had not decided whether Joe Cole, who came on as a second half substitute and scored both goals, would start against Croatia, who beat England home and away in the Euro 2008 qualifiers.

He also said that Cole and Wayne Rooney did not understand his tactics during the second half against Andorra, ranked 186th in the FIFA world rankings but good enough to frustrate England for 49 minutes at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday night.

Cole, who has not started any of England's last four matches, could again be left out of the starting lineup on Wednesday, one of the most important games for both sides in the qualifying campaign.

Capello became agitated with the midfielder during the second half and explained afterwards he was still pondering his options for Wednesday.

"Yes, I have got to think about Joe. He is in a very good moment for himself and scoring goals, but I have to decide what the first 11 will be against Croatia," he told a news conference.

"It will be another game and it will a different sort of game. I would like it if Croatia played like Andorra, but they won't they will come out looking for goals.

"But against Andorra there were problems with the understanding of tactics. When we started the second half, Wayne Rooney and Joe played near Emile Heskey.  Continued...