Far from convincing and a good cure for insomnia but three points in the bag. Anyone expecting an avalanche of England goals was disappointed as Sven Goran Eriksson's team struggled against Liechtenstein. England again relied on Owen and Beckham to get the goals with the skipper again putting his team-mates to shame with an excellent performance and a great finish from a free-kick.

Liechtenstein had chances and only poor finishing saved England's blushes.

Sven-Goran Eriksson insisted that the future was still bright for England as he vowed to overcome Turkey in next week's Euro 2004 qualifier despite his team having failed to impress while beating Liechtenstein.

Eriksson declared: "I am sure that we haven't gone backwards since the World Cup.

"Of course, it was a really bad result to draw at home to Macedonia but I'm not worried about the future for England.

"I am convinced that we will do a very good game next week. I cannot tell you the result but we will play good football and give Turkey a battle, I'm sure of that."

Michael Owen vowed to "carry on scoring" for his country after reaching the 20-goal mark in the game. Owen said: "Great players thrive upon expectations and I enjoy playing in big games. "It's very nice to score 20 goals for your country. Not too many people have done that so I've got to be very pleased. "I'm still only 23 now so hopefully I've got a long time to score a few more goals and I want to get as many as I can. "We knew that Turkey was always going to be the main game in this group. We knew it was the big one. "We were expected to win tonight and it didn't really matter how it happened. The main thing was getting those three points."