Good evening, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of England's World Cup qualifying clash against San Marino.

Baines overlaps down the left and gets to the byline, with his cross rather unconvincingly turned behind for a corner by Vitaioli.

Rooney misplaces a pass slightly as Palazzi is able to bring the ball out of defence for the visitors, and it's one-way traffic, as was anticipated.

STAT: England have not lost any of the nine matches (excluding penalties) they have played since Roy Hodgson took over as manager (W6 D3 L0). Surely that record will not be blemished this evening.

Cleverley charges forward from deep with a neat one-two with Rooney, before the move breaks down on the edge of the visitors' box.

Chance! The corner is finally taken by Baines, with Rooney meeting the delivery with a firm header, but he directs it wide of the far post with Simoncini flat-footed.

The referee takes exception to some jostling inside the San Marino box before Baines takes a corner from the right.

STAT: In each of the previous two matches against San Marino, an English player has scored four goals (David Platt and Ian Wright).

A Carrick pass is misread by his team-mates and the ball goes back to Simoncini.

Walcott is withdrawn as Aaron Lennon does indeed come on to play down the right.

Hodgson does not look at all happy on the touchline with his winger in trouble, and he was clearly disgusted by that challenge from the goalkeeper.

Walker charges down the right for England, but catches Palazzi with a slightly late challenge. It's a free kick to the visitors.

Walcott eventually gets to his feet gingerly and begins to prepare to continue, with the England doctor signalling to the bench that he will attempt to play on.

Our man at the ground, @tomEurosport, says Aaron Lennon is poised to come on for England with Walcott really struggling - he looks to be in a bad way, but is finally back on his feet.

Oh dear, Simoncini flies off his line and collides with Walcott, who falls to the ground with a thump as the goalkeeper makes an extremely reckless and dangerous challenge! He immediately apologises, but there will be a delay with Walcott injured.

Oxlade-Chamberlain warms the palms of Simoncini as the San Marino keeper parries the ball over the bar, and the England winger makes an early impact.

Palazzi makes an early clearance down the left, and Rooney and Cleverley are seeing a lot of the ball early on for England.

The first half is under way at Wembley, and England immediately keep the ball inside the San Marino half, looking to build early pressure.

Lots of you are seemingly willing San Marino to grab an early goal - perhaps in just eight seconds. No one is predicting over 10 goals, and we're about to find out what England can do... the anthems are over, and we're ready for kick-off.

Right, we're all set at Wembley as the players emerge to the usual fanfare, and there is just about time for some late pre-match predictions. What do you fancy the scoreline will be this evening - how many will England rack up?

"Leighton's done well, and we'd like to keep one or two players up our sleeve for Tuesday night... We need to be professional, we need to be disciplined, we need to entertain the crowd... We've got to hope that the goal chances we create are converted into goals." - Roy Hodgson justifying Cole's exclusion, and talking about his team's prospects tonight.

Some bad omens out there for England tonight: Sweden went behind to the Faroe Islands before eking out a 2-1 win earlier, Lithuania are being given a real match by Liechtenstein, while Italy have made heavy weather of beating Armenia.