Please stay off the boos - McClaren asks for patience

McClaren goes into the biggest match of his short reign in charge tonight knowing that anything other than victory over a country ranked 110th in the world will spell the end of his career as England head coach.

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He is still haunted by the abuse directed at him by supporters during the 3-0 win over Andorra in March, but there will be just 800 official visiting fans inside the 10,000 capacity Le Coq Arena.

McClaren said: "There's evidence to suggest that anyone who has played Estonia will say they are a better side than the statistics suggest. You need patience.

"I've watched several Estonia games and the first goal is important, but we are here to do a job and patience is the key word. I will stress that to the players and the fans.

"Every time someone plays England it's their cup final, and that's something we have to live with. We are here to win and it's important to win, but if you ask Croatia or Russia, they will tell you it is hard to score here. It took Russia 66 minutes to do that."

Estonia have also failed to score in six Euro 2008 qualifiers and still await their first point in Group E.

McClaren will name his team at 11.30am, but he is contemplating making three changes from the side who drew against Brazil at Wembley on Friday.

Peter Crouch is likely to replace Alan Smith in attack, Wes Brown could come in for Jamie Carragher, and Wayne Bridge will replace Reading left back Nicky Shorey.

England's preparations were affected by their late arrival in Tallinn — they landed in Estonia at 8.40pm local time — and McClaren has decided against a training session inside the stadium before tonight's clash.

England are five points behind group leaders Croatia and three behind Russia and Israel, but McClaren insists he is not feeling the pressure.

He said: "I understand why people will ask if I am under pressure, but I'm here to finish the job and that's what I intend to do.

"I feel good. It's been a great couple of weeks, and the results against Brazil and Albania showed how good we are. Now we have an opportunity to build on that."

England have scored just six times in their last eight games, but skipper John Terry insists they have the firepower to climb back to the top of Group E.

Terry, who will partner Ledley King in central defence, said: "I take full responsibility if we don't qualify, but I won't talk negatively. It is down to me to lead the boys and make sure that we are all right.

"The manager has said we have to be patient, especially if we don't score in the first 15 minutes.

"Our fans are brilliant, they travel all over the world and, when they are behind us, they are the best in the world.

"We will give it 110 per cent for them, but we know we need to win every game now.

"Results haven't gone our way and the least we can do is beat Estonia. We can build on the Brazil result."