England braced for Montenegro 'dogfight'

Four days on from its 8-0 rout of San Marino, England faces a potentially decisive World Cup qualifier on Tuesday against a Montenegro side that will not be anywhere near as obliging.

With four games still to come in Group H, it is too soon to cast the game as a make-or-break encounter, but the ramifications for success and failure are vastly different.

Win, and England will go top of the group, ahead of a kind run-in of fixtures that will see it play three of its final four matches at home.