England start Euro 2016 qualifying campaign on winning note with 2-0 Switzerland victory

England beat Switzerland 2-0 to make the perfect start to their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, thanks to two second-half striker from Arsenal's new 16 million pounds signing Danny Welbeck.

England boss Roy Hodgson needed his squad to produce an encouraging performance and positive result after the misery of going out of the World Cup in Brazil at the group stage in the summer and this did the job on both counts.

England's goalkeeper Joe Hart made two vital saves were indebted to two vital saves from Haris Seferovic and a critical goal-line clearance from Gary Cahill, making this victory was fully deserved and showed promising signs for the future, The BBC reported.

Switzerland, ninth in FIFA's world rankings in August after reaching the last 16 of the World Cup, posed a threat but ended up being well beaten by England, ranked 20th.

The merits of Hodgson using the diamond formation, which suits Raheem Sterling perfectly, was shown as Liverpool's youngster set up former Manchester United star Welbeck's first goal just before the hour and was also involved as Anfield teammate Rickie Lambert laid on the striker's second in stoppage time, the report added.