England"s ex-captain John Terry acclaimed as "a good leader" Football The Guardian

John Terry "played a illusory game" opposite Egypt, according to the England manager, Fabio Capello. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Fabio Capello praised John Terry"s strength of impression after the deposed England captain recovered from a shaken begin to levy his shift on this competition and assistance the hosts ease to an in conclusion gentle victory.

Terry had been subjected to boos from a minority of the supporters in the inhabitant track when his name was review out over the open residence complement before to kick-off, and there were a little jeers when his initial hold was a unnoticed pass that sent the round skidding out of play. Yet, by the end, his certainty had visibly returned as he barked orders to his team-mates, with the barracking prolonged lost and England reassured by his presence.

The player was unruffled by the dissent, innate of the allegations over the Chelsea defender"s in isolation hold up that cost him the captaincy last month and has since effectively served to reject Wayne Bridge to the general wilderness. "There were a couple of jeers but I can hoop that," he pronounced in the aftermath. "Everyone"s entitled to their opinion."

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His team-mates and physical education instructor were tender with his display, that was abandoned of the uncharacteristic errors that undermined his bar performances opposite Everton, Internazionale and Manchester City in new weeks. "I thought John was glorious tonight," pronounced Steven Gerrard, who skippered the side in the deficiency of the new permanent captain, Rio Ferdinand. "He rubbed all well and he showed he is a illusory player and a great personality for us."

Capello added: "I"m unequivocally happy with him, and appreciate you to the throng since they upheld the group and John Terry. This was one of the majority critical games for him after the story of what happened off the pitch. He played a illusory game, similar to I know he plays continually at this level. He showed how critical he is for us, yes. When I chose him as captain, I knew the worth of this player since he"s unequivocally critical on the pitch."

England had indispensable a second half reconstruction to see off the reigning African champions, who had led at the interlude pleasantness of Mohamed Zidan"s well-taken idea following Matthew Upson"s slip. Capello had been penetrating to hearing the front pairing of Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe before to the interval, but transposed the Tottenham Hotspur brazen with his club-mate Peter Crouch as England trailed 1-0 at half-time, with the surrogate creation an evident impact.

The goals subsequently plundered by Crouch have distended his total to twenty in 37 general appearances, to make firm his explain both for a place in Capello"s subject to squad, that is to be declared on sixteen May, and arguably for a starting purpose at the summer"s World Cup finals in South Africa.

"Anyone who plays for England in World Cup year is underneath a sure volume of pressure," pronounced Crouch. "But you can usually try to do your best, and that"s what I did. It"s up to the physical education instructor either I begin or not. All I can do is, when I"m since a chance, try and take it. I goal I gave the physical education instructor something to think about tonight."

Asked what Crouch has to do to begin some-more continually for his country, Capello said: "But if Defoe had scored dual goals – and he had dual chances – people would have been asking me because I replaced him. Crouch is one of the critical players. I"ve comparison him a lot, he"s played a lot for me, and he"s in unequivocally great form. But you have to assimilate that I longed for to assimilate what happens with Defoe and Rooney in the initial half.

"I know what happens when Rooney plays with Crouch, Carlton Cole or Emile Heskey. For that reason, currently it was improved [to begin with Defoe] in credentials for the World Cup to know either they can fool around together. But Crouch is a big choice for me. In the second half, he done the difference.

"But I was additionally happy with the chances that we combined in the initial half: 4 chances that were unequivocally easy to score. Perhaps in that initial half we done a little mistakes and, when I spoke with the players at half-time, I told them they had to shift something. They did all [I told them to] in the second half. This diversion was critical for us and we schooled a lot about personification North African teams. We fool around Algeria in the World Cup, and we will be some-more informed with their character of fool around now. This will have been great for us."