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European Qualifiers - 2014/16 Season Match Press Kits A EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS A. Le Coq Arena - Tallinn Sunday 12 October 2014 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Estonia Group E - Matchday -10 England Last updated 12/07/2021 16:59CET Official Partners of UEFA EURO 2020 Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Estonia - England Sunday 12 October 2014 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Wright-Phillips 11, 13/10/2007 QR (GS) England - Estonia 3-0 London Rooney 32, Rähn 33 (og) J. Cole 37, Crouch 54, 06/06/2007 QR (GS) Estonia - England 0-3 Tallinn Owen 62 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Estonia 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 0 0 2 0 6 England 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 2 2 0 0 6 0 FIFA* Estonia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - England - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies Estonia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - England - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Total Estonia 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 0 0 2 0 6 England 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 2 2 0 0 6 0 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Estonia - England Sunday 12 October 2014 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Match background Another 3-0 win would suit Group E leaders England nicely as they take on Estonia for a third time , the sides having previously been paired in UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying. Match background • David Beckham was the star of the show when the sides first met in Tallinn on 6 June 2007, setting up goals for Peter Crouch (53) and Michael Owen (61) after Joe Cole (36) had put Steve McClaren's England in front. • Estonia found the going similarly tough in the return fixture on 13 October the same year. Shaun Wright-Phillips (11) and Wayne Rooney (32) were on target – the latter with his first competitive England goal since 2004 – before Taavi Rähn's headed own goal (33) completed the scoring. • England have won all four of their UEFA age-group competition meetings with Estonia, scoring 18 goals without reply. • The only meetings between the nations' clubs in UEFA competitions came in the first round of the 2006/07 UEFA Cup, when Newcastle United FC beat FC Levadia Tallinn 1-0 in Estonia and then 2-1 at home. 3 Estonia - England Sunday 12 October 2014 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Squad list Estonia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Sergei Pareiko 31/01/1977 37 Volga - 2 0 0 0 58 - - Mihkel Aksalu 07/11/1984 29 SJK - 0 0 0 0 12 - - Pavel Londak 14/05/1980 34 Bodø/Glimt - 0 0 0 0 24 - Defenders - Enar Jääger 18/11/1984 29 - 2 0 0 0 106 - - Alo Bärengrub 12/02/1984 30 Kalju - 1 0 0 0 46 - - Ragnar Klavan 30/10/1985 28 Augsburg - 2 0 0 0 95 2 - Dmitri Kruglov 24/05/1984 30 Levadia - 0 0 0 0 90 2 - Gert Kams 25/05/1985 29 SJK - 1 0 0 0 36 1 - Igor Morozov 27/05/1989 25 Debrecen - 1 0 0 0 25 - - Artjom Artjunin 24/01/1990 24 Levadia - 0 0 0 0 3 - - Artur Pikk 05/03/1993 21 Levadia - 0 0 0 0 1 - - Karol Mets 16/05/1993 21 Flora - 2 0 0 0 8 - Midfielders - Joel Lindpere 05/10/1981 33 Baník - 2 0 0 0 94 7 - Martin Vunk 21/08/1984 30 Kalju - 2 0 0 0 65 1 - Aleksandr Dmitrijev 18/02/1982 32 Levadia - 0 0 0 0 86 - - Konstantin Vassiljev 16/08/1984 30 Piast - 1 0 0 0 70 17 - Taijo Teniste 31/01/1988 26 Sogndal - 1 0 0 0 32 - - Henrik Ojamaa 20/05/1991 23 Motherwell - 1 0 0 0 19 - - Ilja Antonov 05/12/1992 21 Levadia - 2 0 0 0 8 - Forwards - Kaimar Saag 05/08/1988 26 Assyriska - 0 0 0 0 46 3 - Sergei Zenjov 20/04/1989 25 Blackpool - 2 0 0 0 36 7 - Henri Anier 17/12/1990 23 Erzgebirge - 2 0 0 0 17 5 - Rimo Hunt 05/11/1985 28 Kaysar - 0 0 0 0 5 - Coach - Magnus Pehrsson 25/05/1976 38 - 2 0 0 0 7 - 4 Estonia - England Sunday 12 October 2014 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn England Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Fraser Forster 17/03/1988 26 Southampton - 0 0 0 0 2 - - Joe Hart 19/04/1987 27 Man. City - 2 0 0 0 46 - - Ben Foster 03/04/1983 31 West Brom - 0 0 0 0 8 - Defenders - Phil Jagielka 17/08/1982 32 Everton - 2 1 0 0 31 3 - Leighton Baines 11/12/1984 29 Everton - 1 0 0 0 28 1 - Gary Cahill 19/12/1985 28 Chelsea - 2 0 0 0 30 3 - Kieran Gibbs 26/09/1989 25 Arsenal - 1 0 0 0 4 - - Nathaniel Clyne 05/04/1991 23 Southampton - 0 0 0 0 - - - Calum Chambers 20/01/1995 19 Arsenal - 1 0 0 0 2 - Midfielders - James Milner 04/01/1986 28 Man. City - 2 0 0 0 51 1 - Adam Lallana 10/05/1988 26 Liverpool - 1 0 0 0 10 - - Jack Wilshere 01/01/1992 22 Arsenal - 2 0 0 0 23 - - Andros Townsend 16/07/1991 23 Tottenham - 1 1 0 0 6 2 - Fabian Delph 21/11/1989 24 Aston Villa - 1 0 0 0 2 - - Jonjo Shelvey 27/02/1992 22 Swansea - 0 0 0 0 1 - - Jordan Henderson 17/06/1990 24 Liverpool - 2 0 0 0 16 - - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 15/08/1993 21 Arsenal - 1 0 0 0 17 3 - Raheem Sterling 08/12/1994 19 Liverpool - 2 0 0 0 11 - Forwards - Wayne Rooney 24/10/1985 28 Man. United - 2 1 0 0 98 42 - Danny Welbeck 26/11/1990 23 Arsenal - 2 3 0 0 29 11 - Rickie Lambert 16/02/1982 32 Liverpool - 1 0 0 0 9 3 Coach - Roy Hodgson 09/08/1947 67 - 2 0 0 0 34 - 5 Estonia - England Sunday 12 October 2014 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Head coach Magnus Pehrsson Date of birth: 25 May 1976 Nationality: Swedish Playing career: IF Brommapojkarna, Djurgårdens IF (twice), Bradford City AFC (loan), IFK Göteborg Coaching career: Åtvidabergs FF, IK Sirius, GAIS Göteborg, Aalborg BK, Djurgårdens IF, Estonia • A midfielder who made his name with Djurgården, Pehrsson lifted the Swedish title with the Stockholm club in 2002 yet was forced to end his career in 2003 after suffering serious injury. • Despite his young age Pehrsson learned the coaching ropes at Åtvidaberg before a move to Sirius in 2006; tasted life in Sweden's top tier when he joined GAIS in 2008. • After a season in the Allsvenskan he went to Denmark with AaB in January 2009, guiding the side to a seventh- placed finish in his first term. The club came two places higher the following campaign, yet Pehrsson departed the helm in October 2010. • Returned to Sweden to take charge of former team Djurgården in May 2011, helping them avoid relegation in his first season before steering them to a ninth-placed finish in the 2012 campaign. • Resigned as Djurgården boss in April 2013 and appointed Estonia's national team coach in December that year. Roy Hodgson Date of birth: 9 August 1947 Nationality: English Playing career: Crystal Palace FC, Tonbridge Angels FC, Gravesend and Northfleet FC, Maidstone United FC, Berea Park FC Coaching career: Halmstads BK, Bristol City FC, IK Oddevold, Örebro SK, Malmö FF, Neuchâtel Xamax FC, Switzerland, FC Internazionale Milano (twice), Blackburn Rovers FC, Grasshopper Club, FC København, Udinese Calcio, United Arab Emirates, Viking FK, Finland, Fulham FC, Liverpool FC, West Bromwich Albion FC, England • After he spent most of his playing days in the English non-league system, Hodgson's coaching career spanning eight countries began with Halmstad. He guided the Swedish club to their first-ever Allsvenskan titles in 1976 and 1979; then guided Malmö to top of the table for five years in a row, although the play-off system then used meant they were champions only twice in that time. • A period at Xamax followed before the first of four forays into international management. Hodgson's Switzerland qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup – their first in 28 years – and then EURO '96 but the coach departed for Inter before the latter tournament. • After taking the Nerazzurri to the 1997 UEFA Cup final, Hodgson had spells in England, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, the UAE, Norway and Finland, as well as a short stint back at Inter as technical director. • He returned to England and relegation-threatened Fulham in 2007/08, helping them to safety in his first term, a club- best seventh in the Premier League in his second and then the 2010 UEFA Europa League final. The 2-1 extra-time defeat by Club Atlético de Madrid proved his last game with the Cottagers, before he accepted the reins at Liverpool.
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