England beat Japan in warm-up game

Two own goals gave England an unconvincing win over hosts Japan yesterday in their final warm-up game before flying to South Africa for the World Cup.



England started sloppily and were punished after seven minutes when Marcus Tulio Tanaka met Yasuhito Endo's corner and crashed the ball past David James.



Frank Lampard had a penalty saved before England levelled when Tanaka headed Joe Cole's cross in his own net in the 72nd minute.



England stole the win in the 83rd minute when Yuji Nakazawa turned Ashley Cole's ball in.



England boss Fabio Capello will trim his squad from the provisional 30 to a 23-man World Cup party tomorrow and after the match the Italian revealed he had made his mind up who would be selected - but would not share the information.



England fielded 17 different players and tried two formations, a first-half 4-4-2 followed by a more compact 4-4-1-1 for half an hour in the second half.



In another pre-World Cup warm up game, Ivory Coast drew 2-2 before coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has to name his squad.



The Elephants went 2-0 up thanks to goals from Didier Drogba and Souleymane Bamba but then conceded twice to draw. Lucas Barrios and Aureliano Torres got the goals for Paraguay