Fabio Capello has admitted he will need to assess Robert Green's mental state before deciding whether to stick with the calamity keeper for England's crucial clash with Algeria in Cape Town on Friday.

Green joined a long list of England keepers to find themselves in the stocks with his awful gaffe against the United States yesterday that denied the Three Lions victory.

As Rio Ferdinand prepared to say his farewells and head back to Manchester for treatment on the knee injury he suffered on the first day of training, the full extent of the damage Green caused by inexplicably letting Clint Dempsey's 40th-minute effort slither through his fingers was confirmed by Slovenia's defeat of Algeria that took them to the top of Group C.