<table style="width: 135px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="135" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/may/zakazawa.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td><span style="font-size: 8pt">England's Wayne Rooney consoles Japan's Yuji Nakazawa, who scored an own goal that saw his team lose 1-2 during an international friendly in Graz, Austria yesterday. Pic/Getty Images </span></td></tr></tbody></table>Fabio Capello declared himself happy with England's second half performance as they came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 in their final warm-up game for the World Cup and indicated he now knows 22 of the 23 players he will take to South Africa.<br /><br />The 63-year-old Italian admitted he was not happy with England's first-half display in which they went 1-0 down to a goal from Marcus 'Tulio' Tanaka and looked both out of sorts and uncomfortable with an experimental 4-2-4 formation.<br /><br />But the fact that England improved dramatically with the inclusion of five half-time substitutes, and in particular Joe Cole, before Tulio and Yuji Nakazawa both scored unfortunate own goals to turn the match around, kept the Italian in good spirits.<br /><br />"I am happy for the second half performance," he said.<br /><br />"We played better, faster, we found space. In the first half we played too slow, it was easy for Japan to defend. But it was an interesting game. I know the players very well. I know their value. I have not changed my idea after this period, I am not disappointed and my mind has not been changed."

Fabio Capello declared himself happy with England's second half performance as they came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 in their final warm-up game for the World Cup

Capello pleased despite England's sloppy show

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