Belarus v England - Wednesday 15th October

England fly to Minsk knowing that if they win against Belarus that they're 50% the way to South Africa. I know its a case of famous last words and all that, but we should do win over there - even if we just scrape a crappy goal from Heskey.

We can't get carried away with our win over Kazakhstan as it was against a team ranked something like 130th in the FIFA Rankings. Belarus may have only 3 points also, but if we put a solid performance and get a win and with Ukraine not playing until next year, we can go into Christmas with a 5 point lead of our nearest rivals.

I'm thinking that Capello may drop either Lampard or Gerrard to be bench and play Barry in there. He should play Rooney up front with Heskey and just drop Rooney behind.

World Cup Football Blog Prediction: Belarus 0 - 2 England