IT'S THE YAWN OF A NEW ERA

THE Villa Park crowd probably wished they had gone to see Coldplay at Wembley instead.

- JOHN CROSS AT VILLA PARK

This was not a great advert for international football and even one of Chris Martin's songs might have got the pulse racing faster.

Ultimately, England got the job done against an Andorra team which is ranked 174th in the world but it felt more like a training session than a World Cup qualifier.

It was only moved to the Midlands because Coldplay had already booked a string of sellout nights at Wembley and this felt like such a familiar England storyline.

They were sluggish, lacked intensity and uninspiring. Boss Thomas Tuchel could do with some momentum but England struggled to get out of first gear.

They had to rely on an own goal to break the deadlock and only managed one of their own thanks to Declan Rice's second-half header.