England show their claws as Welbeck strikes to beat Swiss

Roy Hodgson's bold selection pays off as pacy England pick off main Euro 2016 rivals

Danny Welbeck of Arsenal scores for England against Switzerland
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Switzerland 0 England 2. Finally the Three Lions have found their claws and it was poor Switzerland who ended up getting mauled. After two years of tentative football Roy Hodgson sent his side out against the Swiss with instructions to be bold and they were, with new Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck scoring two second half goals in a win that puts England in a dominant position in Group E.

With the top two countries in each group qualifying automatically for the 2016 European Championships, England are strong favourites to come out on top having got the hardest away game out of the way first. Trips to Lithuania, Slovenia, San Marino and Estonia follow but if England continue with the attacking approach they showed in Basel they should comfortably qualify for France.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.