Leicester, ENGLAND, June 3 (Reuters) - Joe Cole has scored with a superb
late free kick to give England a
2-1 win over Serbia and
Montenegro in a low-key friendly
of little obvious help to either
side in their Euro 2004
preparations.
England, who host Slovakia in
Group Seven in eight days, went
ahead in the 35th minute when midfielder Steven
Gerrard surged forward, released Michael Owen and
then arrived in the box to side-foot in his Liverpool team
mate's cut-back.
Nenad Jestrovic hits equalizer
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Serbia, who visit Finland on Saturday and Azerbaijan on
June 11 in Group Nine qualifiers, equalised just before
halftime when Nenad Jestrovic headed home from a
corner in just about their only chance of the match.
Mass substitutions helped contribute to a second half of
negligible action until young West Ham United
midfielder Cole smashed a free kick round the wall and
in off a post eight minutes from time as England finished
with a flurry.
International friendly football match, Leicester, ENGLAND, June 3
ENGLAND - SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 2-1 (HT:1-1)
Scorers: Steven Gerrard 35, Joe Cole 82. Attendance: 32,000. Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium).
ENGLAND: 1-David James; 2-Danny Mills (14-Jamie Carragher 62), 5-Matthew
Upson (15-Gareth Barry), 6-Gareth Southgate (16-John Terry 46), 3-Ashley
Cole; 4-Steven Gerrard (17-Jermaine Jenas 46), 8-Paul Scholes (18-Owen
Hargreaves 46), 11-Phil Neville (23-James Beattie 85), 7-Frank Lampard
(19-Joe Cole 62); 9-Emile Heskey (20-Darius Vassell 62), 10-Michael Owen
(captain) (21-Wayne Rooney 46)
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: 1-Dragoslav Jevric (12-Dragan Zilic 67); 2-Zoran
Mirkovic (captain) (13-Nenad Brnovic 46), 3-Boban Dmitrovic (7-Goran
Trobok 46), 4-Nemanja Vidic, 5-Dejan Stefanovic (20-Mladen Krstajic 50);
6-Nenad Kovacevic (16-Nikola Malbasa 46), 10-Zvonimir Vukic (17-Nenad
Djordjevic 46), 11-Nenad Jestrovic (9-Savo Milosevic 75), 14-Igor Dulaj
(19-Branko Boskovic 46); 15-Slobodan Markovic (21-Zoran Njegus 68),
22-Sasa Ilic (8-Predrag Mijatovic 68)
