“If we keep moving forward in the right direction as we are now I’m confident that we can achieve something going into the World Cup next year under Capello”.

Gerrard continued: “I feel great that we have qualified. It’s nice to get the qualification out of the way early. To qualify so early and win a game so comfortably makes me feel more confident about the way we are going forward as a team.”

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In 18th minute, Gerrard sent the ball wide to Lennon and drifted undetected into the penalty area where his team-mate’s perfect cross allowed him to score his first goal at the far post by a cool header.

The third goal was a classic, Glen Johnson charging forward and producing a couple of step-overs before crossing on to the head of Lampard, who steered a perfect header past Runje. Seven minutes later it was 4-0, an up-and-under from Rooney allowing Gerrard to claim his second goal with another looping header.

Rooney scored the fifth goal, stroking the ball into an unguarded net after Runje made a dreadful hash of a back-pass.

29-year-old Liverpool captain Stevie Gerrard was inspired, a marauding presence just as he is as for Liverpool, even if he was ostensibly operating from the left of midfield. And when Gerrard is smiling, you know things are going well.

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Gerrard, who was captain on that day, says: “The whole squad are fired up to gain revenge on Slaven Bilic’s Croatia and clinch World Cup qualification on Wednesday night.”

He added: “There is unfinished business for all of us. It hurt. We still remember the feeling we felt afterwards in the dressing room. We remember the result and will use it to motivate ourselves on Wednesday. If you can’t get motivated to beat a team to get to the World Cup then you’ve got a problem.”

“It [losing to Croatia] was definitely my lowest moment in an England shirt. It has taken a long time to get over it. I am still not over it now. I don’t think I will be over it until we get that qualification under our belts on Wednesday.”

Fabio Capello has inspired England to a record-breaking World Cup qualification campaign and they enjoyed another morale-boosting win over Slovenia on Saturday.

But Gerrard added: “It is always nice to win. They are really similar to Croatia in the way they play. It was a good test for us but the ’cup final’ comes on Wednesday. We always knew in this get-together the most important game was Wednesday and it was just important we got out there against Slovenia and got a win for confidence.”

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