DARREN Bent and Ashley Young combined to ensure England enjoyed a wonderful night in Copenhagen, even though Jack Wilshere was not able to match his impressive billing.

Maybe expectations surrounding Wilshere were too great.

The Arsenal teenager was confident in possession, enough to show he has a fine future ahead of him.

He does look ill-suited to the midfield holding role though, and his contribution paled alongside that of fellow youngster Christian Eriksen.

However, Wilshere still finished on the winning side after Bent levelled Daniel Agger’s opener, meaning Young’s first international goal midway through the second half was a winning one.

Eriksen, who stole Wilshere’s thunder with aplomb, created an early opportunity for Nicklas Bendtner, had a shot deflected wide by Frank Lampard and slammed a quite brilliant effort against the base of Joe Hart’s left-hand post.

It was hardly a surprise he should therefore claim the assist for Denmark’s early opener too.

As this was a warm-up for next month’s Euro 2012 qualifier with Wales, England coach Fabio Capello could not have been happy with the ease Denmark opened the scoring.

Eriksen’s curling cross was difficult to defend. Nevertheless, Lampard and John Terry would be disappointed Agger had so much space to steer the ball beyond Hart’s despairing grasp.