Hodgson says England were ‘good value’ for victory over Norway

England boss Roy Hodgson believes his side were "good value" for their 1-0 friendly victory over Norway in the first game back after a disappointing World Cup.

The Three Lions required a second-half penalty from new captain Wayne Rooney to secure an unconvincing win ahead of their first Euro 2016 qualifier against Switzerland on Monday.

But despite many believing it was a poor performance, Hodgson preferred to maintain a positive outlook after the match.

"The injection of pace of Danny Welbeck, Fabian Delph and [James] Milner and a slight change in the system meantwe got back on top again and started to create chances.

"In the end I thought we were good value for our victory," he said.

"The good thing with the players we have at the moment, and there were three out there making debuts today, is that many are playing early matches in their international career and it's good that we have these options.

"We definitely changed the way we were playing in terms of system with about 20-25 minutes to go and I thought that worked well too when Welbeck came in behind Sturridge.

"I thought that got us going as well and in the end with a little bit of luck we would have aggravated the score. The important thing was the victory."

But despite Hodgson taking plenty of plus points from the game at Wembley, the former Liverpool boss recognised there remains work to be done.

"We started the second half poorly and I was disappointed by our first 10-15 minutes at the start of the second half and Joe [Hart] had to make a couple of saves having been pretty much a bystander in the first half but luckily we got ourselves going again."