The Aston Villa man was influential in both England goals as the Three Lions’ 4-3-3 line-up caused Wales all sorts of problems in an action-packed opening 15 minutes of the game, but Young admitted that victory was the main thing.
“The main thing is to get the three points and get ourselves back up the top of the group where I think we should be,” he told Sky Sports.
“If we keep playing like that, with even more good performances, then I’m sure we can stay up there.”
Young was brought down inside the penalty area in the sixth minute by a clumsy James Collins challenge and Frank Lampard calmly fired the spot-kick past Wayne Hennessey. Nine minutes later the forward was involved again as he crossed for club team-mate Darren Bent to fire home from six yards, but Young insisted the game was not as easy as some might think.
“I don’t think it was comfortable,” he admitted.
“We knew it was going to be a tough game, we knew if we scored early we’d be on the front foot and we went out and got the penalty and Frank Lampard stuck it away like he has been doing all week in training.
“We just wanted to kick on from there and we got the second goal.
“We felt confident in the first half but we knew in the second half they were going to come at us, and we had to defend really well and that’s what we’ve done and we got the win.”
Fabio Capello selected a 4-3-3 formation for the first time with Young and Wayne Rooney supporting Bent up front and the Villa man felt the performance showed they were comfortable with the new tactics.
“It was good, I think it worked,” Young revealed.
“You can see the way we were interchanging and everyone knew their jobs, it was a new formation but knew what doing and it worked.
“We worked on getting the ball back as soon as we lose the ball and the way the boys were pressing we wanted to get it back as quick as possible and put them under pressure straight away.”
The victory takes England back to the top of Group G on goal difference from Montenegro, but England are not in competitive action again until the summer however Young admitted he was hoping to have done enough to be involved in Tuesday’s friendly with Ghana at Wembley.
“You want to put in your best performance and then you look towards the next game,” he continued.
“You get the start today and hopefully get a start in the next game but we just take the victory today and concentrate on the next game when it comes.”
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