Cool Capello had faith in England

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Two goals down to the Dutch, both of them gifts provided by Rio Ferdinand and Gareth Barry, Capello sensed the only way out was to provide the calm certainty that he believed they could do it. And the tactic worked as Jermain Defoe pulled a goal back within five minutes of his introduction, then pulled England level 13 minutes from time by tapping home a James Milner cross.

"I was really calm at half-time, really calm," said Capello. "You have to understand what you have to do. It is not always the same. It is very important psychologically for the players to understand if the manager has confidence that they can recover the result."

In fact, Capello was not too bothered by the errant back-passes from Ferdinand and Barry that provided Dirk Kuyt and Rafael van der Vaart with their goals.

He was more concerned at the more fundamental problems that had crept into England's play.

"The goals were just two stupid mistakes. Two silly mistakes," he said.

"Sometimes you are angry because of incredible mistakes.

"I don't accept mistakes where the position is wrong or if I try doing something in training and then, afterwards, I don't see it being put into practice on the pitch."