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Article: Pressure is great for defining game.
- Article from:
- Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2007
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England coach Steve McClaren is relishing the pressure of tonight's must-not-lose match with Russia in Moscow.
Although the visitors' plans have been hit by the almost certain loss of captain John Terry to a knee injury suffered in training last night, after five straight Euro 2008 victories, McClaren has every reason to be in bullish mood.
While he is refusing to get carried away at the prospect of booking a place at next summer's finals in Austria and Switzerland by beating Guus Hiddink's men, after the trials and tribulations of his early months in charge, the current challenge is one he is happy to face.
"Our qualifying campaign will be ...