Over to you, Frank! Gerrard takes man of the match award before seeing red... leaving it to goalscorer Lampard

By Sami Mokbel

PUBLISHED: 17:53 EST, 11 September 2012 | UPDATED: 17:56 EST, 11 September 2012

The Wembley stadium announcer was forced into an instant U-turn after naming Steven Gerrard as Tuesday night's man of the match just after his sending-off.

He quickly changed his mind and handed the award to Frank Lampard, who scored England's late equaliser from the penalty spot and took over from Gerrard as capain after the Liverpool man was shown the red card.

Over to you! Steven Gerrard (right) was awarded the man of the match award before being sent off

Over to you! Steven Gerrard (right) was awarded the man of the match award before being sent off

Who has it? Frank Lampard eventually took the man of the match award

Who has it? Frank Lampard eventually took the man of the match award

Ukraine v England In Focus

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk

Obviously told to do a job on Tom Cleverley and kept the Manchester United midfielder's impact to a minimum.

Steve McLaren

The last time England played a competitive fixture without any of John Terry, Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand was in 2007 - the 3-2 defeat by Croatia under McClaren.

Job done: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (left) kept Tom Cleverley under wraps all game

Job done: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (left) kept Tom Cleverley under wraps all game

Steven Gerrard

He became the first England captain sent off at Wembley. Before last night, Paul Scholes was the only England player to have been sent off at the ground - in 1999.

 

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Glen Johnson deserved MOM in my opinion. He stood out above Lamps and Gerrard.

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Andy Townsend should be man of the match.

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Anyone tell me what Lampard did last night? Gerrard was in a different league! Takes a good pen tho.

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awesome pen by lumps but no way MOM the whole team were lucky to get a draw, total rubbish, johnson was pretty impressive...

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This has turned into a 1 game group, whoever wins the game between England and Ukraine goes to Brazil and the loser goes into a play off.

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Utter rubbish. We missed Terry at the back. Gerrard was never MOM. ITV announced Lampard and rightly so. Gerrard was reckless as usual and overambitious with his passing as usual. Lampard had a fantastic game and for me, he's the best penalty taker in the world.

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Like or loathe him,No terry, no england

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Steven Gerrard creates all England's chances!! Lampard scores the penalties haha ad Tom cleverly well tbf he earned england the draw with wasteful finishing!!

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Not sure if Lampard is kept in a match with the hope of getting penalty. What if we didnt get the penalty?... and I dont think any of our players deserves to be the MOM.

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Even with the sending off Gerrard was head and shoulders above the rest, and you can't blame the announcer for that one! Lampard was ineffective as per usual, but hope he keeps scoring those penalties, he's very good at those.

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