Steven Gerrard hailed England&rsquo;s win over Belgium as the perfect dress rehearsal for their European Championship opener against France &mdash; even if it came at some cost. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/engl1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 490px; " /> Tough game: England skipper Steven Gerrard (right) during friendly tie against Belgium on Saturday night. Pic/AFP Captain Gerrard was one of several walking wounded after Saturday night&rsquo;s bruising 1-0 Wembley victory in the final warm-up friendly before Euro 2012. The Liverpool star was withdrawn late on through cramp after a typical all-action display but he got off lightly compared to Gary Cahill, John Terry and Joleon Lescott.u00a0 Lescott finished yesterday&rsquo;s game with a bleeding head wound bandaged up, while concerns remain over the status of Scott Parker&rsquo;s Achilles. However, Gerrard shrugged off concerns yesterday&rsquo;s game had been too physical for comfort.u00a0&ldquo;It&rsquo;s good. It&rsquo;s the test we needed,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got over a week now to dust ourselves down and recover and get ourselves ready for France. &ldquo;I think France is going to be similar. A performance like that is going to be needed, if not a little bit better.&rdquo; Disciplined He added of the June 11 Group D clash in Ukraine: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to have to be very disciplined and workmanlike without the ball.u00a0&ldquo;I thought we were solid (against Belgium). We restricted them to very few efforts on goal. Let&rsquo;s not underestimate Belgium. Even though they&rsquo;re not in this tournament, they&rsquo;ll be at the next World Cup and they&rsquo;ll be some team.&rdquo;u00a0

Skipper Gerrard insists England's hard-fought 1-0 win over Belgium is the perfect preparation for Euro 2012

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