Villa looked more lively early in the second half but, after Stiliyan Petrov drifted a clever cross-field ball into the heart of Pompey's back-pedalling defence, Young - with time and space to spare - could only drag a low shot well wide.

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England survived some nervous moments on either side of Devic's disallowed shot, but held on to reach the knockout round with something to spare as Seb Larsson's late goal condemned France to its first defeat in 23 games.

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