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England looking to seal World Cup place

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LONDON (AP) England coach Fabio Capello thanked Croatia's Slaven Bilic for inadvertently providing his own team talk ahead of Wednesday's World Cup qualifying game at Wembley, a game that will send the English to the finals with a victory.

Bilic has been reported as saying England will be under more pressure than his own second place team because Croatia stopped the English reaching Euro 2008 two years ago by winning at Wembley.

"Thank you Mr. Bilic," Capello said Tuesday. "Now I don't need to motivate my players after this. It's a fantastic assist."

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