Ex-Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge halted successive home defeats for England by scoring late on against Denmark at Wembley this evening to give the Three Lions a win, on their second to last match on home soil before the summer's World Cup in Brazil.
The Liverpool striker finally got the better of an impressive Kapser Schmeichel, who seemingly single-handed, thwarted the England frontmen.
Denmark however did threaten the England goal on several occasions, revealing a somewhat porous back-four that against much stringer opposition might not find themselves so lucky to escape.
Chelsea's Ashley Cole made an assured start in what many are suggesting is a make or break match in terms of his participation in this summer's World Cup in Brazil.
With Leighton Baines not even getting a game, tonight against Denmark at Wembley, as such, is it an acknowledgement that England boss Roy Hodgson, will be taking the Everton left-back to the tournament, so the spotlight falls on Cole and Southampton's Luke Shaw for the back-up slot.
Cole, out of sort and favour under Jose Mourinho at SW6 can rely on his experience to get him through games, but he still needs to perform on the pitch.
To his credit, his marauding style up the wing was much in evidence early on, he won a corner after 17 minutes and was on hand just in front of his goal-line on 38 minutes, clearing the ball away cooly when Niclas Bendtner took advantage of sloppy defending by the centre-back Chris Smalling.
Cole even took time to overlap left winger Raheem Sterling on occasions, leaving the Liverpool player with the task of covering in defence.
Cole brilliantly produced an overlap with three minutes of the half left, receiving the reverse ball from Wayne Rooney, Cole arrowed across the Danish six-yard box from the byline, only for Sterling to slide the ball against Kasper Schmeichel's right post.
The Leicester City hit man was soon in action again, foiling Daniel Sturridge after Chelsea centre-back headed on a Rooney corner.
Cahill was soon in action straight after the restart, but his club mate Cile failed to renter the pitch. Instead , the young pretender Shaw was handed his debut.
Will that 45 minutes - his 107th cap be his last in an England shirt?
Show repeated what Cole had done with a smart byline cross. But this time the ball was cleared to safety.
Jack Wilshere was replaced by Adam Lallana with Daniel Welbeck coming on for Wayne Rooney on the hour mark.
Denmark really should have scored on 64 minutes when substitute Morten Rasmussen found himself one-on-one With Joe Hart after some more sloppy defending by England. Thankfully the Manchester City goalkeeper was alert to the danger and spread his body to block the right-footed shot from just inside the England penalty area.
Hart's opposite numbers Schmeichel was equally adept at getting down and parrying away to his left to save from Welbeck's 20-yard drive a minute later.
As he was again, three minutes, when following excellent possession play by England, Welbeck again was on hand to prod the ball towards goal. Schmeichel kept his country in the game.another The visitors's number one was soon on hand again to foil a searing left-footed Daniel Sturridge shot, tipping the blaster over his crossbar with 14 minutes of the game to go and England in the ascendancy.
Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was soon on the pitch replacing Jordan Henderson.
Sturridge finally got his reward for his inventive play, getting on to the end of a Lallana left byline cross. The Liverpool striker planted a firm header past the desperate dive of Schmeichel with eight minutes left on the clock.
Sterling's night ended a minute later replaced by Andros Townsend, this was quickly followed by James Milner, on for goalscorer Sturridge.
Teams: England, Hart, Johnson, Cole, Gerrard, Cahill, Smailling, Wilshere, Henderson, Sturridge, Rooney, Sterling
Subs, Shaw, Foster, Baines, Caulker, Carrick, Milner, Lampard, Barkley, Clevley, Lallana, Riddy, Forster, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Townsend, Lambert, Defore, Welbeck, Rodriguez
Denmark,Schmeichel, Sloth, Kjaer, Agger, Ankersen, Jacobsen, Kvist, Poulsen, Krohn-Dehli, Larsen, Bendtner
Subs, Kahlenberg, Bjelland, Kusk, Olsen, Andersen, Zimling, Rasmussen, Delaney, Ankersen, Juelsgard, Lossel, Makienok
Referee,Kevin Blom (Netherlands)
Ends