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Byline: MARK BRADLEY

SVEN-GORAN Eriksson is placing his trust in David Beckham to lead England's Euro 2004 fightback - by putting his penalty miss against France firmly behind him.

Eriksson held a squad meeting today and mentioned England's morale-sapping 2-1 defeat by the French only briefly before turning his concentration to Thursday's second group game against Switzerland.

For the England coach knows that his players cannot afford to feel sorry themselves, in spite fate seemingly having turned against them with Zinedine Zidane's two injurytime goals.

Beckham admitted his share of the blame for England's 2-1…

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