Stunned: Tranquillo Barnetta left Joe Hart stranded as he fired home the opening goal

Once again, manager Fabio Capello was reduced to increasingly frenetic gesticulation from the bench, as though time had stopped in June 2010.

If Admir Mehmedi had held his nerve in the 90th minute and shot straight, England would have suffered a humiliation to match that against Germany in Bloemfontein.

Positives were hard to find. England did claw back a 2-0 deficit and were undoubtedly more creative in the second half, when Darren Bent should have won the game and Stewart Downing might have done with the last kick of the game.

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