A tremendous team effort by Scotland in Dortmund on Sunday evening, narrowly beaten 2-1 by world champions Germany. Boss Gordon Strachan said: "At 1-1, I genuinely believed we were going to win the game. I saw players playing with no fear."

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American Billy Horschel retained his overnight lead to win the BMW Championship at Cherry Hill Village in Colorado by two shots. Rory McIlroy fired a final-round 66 to finish in a tie for eighth and is fourth in the standings going into the deciding event, the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta on Thursday.

Sergio Garcia moves up to number three in the world rankings after his joint fourth finish at the BMW Championship in the FedEx Cup play-off series. Bubba Watson is up three places to number six. Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott retain the top two spots.

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More from former England coach Graham Taylor on 5 live Breakfast, and on the possibility of Danny Welbeck playing up front instead of the injured Daniel Sturridge he says: "There people who think he is far better playing in a more central role than going out wider as he has done on occasions. He has got an opportunity here to prove that those people are right.

"If he does do well and score some goals Roy has that problem, which is a good problem, of do I keep him there?"

Wales begin their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign in Andorra on Tuesday evening and defender Chris Gunter says they can not simply rely on their star players Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.

BBC Wales report that Ospreys are set to sign South African lock De Kock Steenkamp from Super Rugby side Stormers.

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Four years ago, after the disappointment of the World Cup, England began their European Championship qualifying campaign with a 4-0 win over Bulgaria at Wembley, with a hat-trick from Jermain Defoe. Well, we have had another disappointing World Cup, so will we have another 4-0 win this evening?

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Former England coach Graham Taylor knows a thing or two about press criticism, and he has been telling 5 live Breakfast this morning about the scrutiny on Roy Hodgson: "It's very difficult when you bring young players altogether.

"The pressure on him has been to almost produce a new England side and that's what he is doing, but it does take time for players to settle into international football and we have to give them that time."

Some early thoughts from you on the England team as they begin their Euro qualifying campaign in Switzerland tonight. Please keep them coming in to #bbcsportsday, the BBC Sport Facebook, external page and Google+., external

Martin McHugh:, external Best we can hope for tonight is a dismal 0-0. The Swiss FEEL the upper hand. Result of the Premier League diluting English ranks.

Mark Hampson:, external Golden generation overstayed their welcome & the likes of Delph should've been in since 2010. Any manager would struggle with England.

Tonight it is the final surely not many would have predicted, the first Grand Slam final without Djokovic, Federer or Nadal since January 2005 as Kei Nishikori of Japan takes on Croatia's Marin Cilic.

There is live commentary of the match in an extended 5 live Sport tonight, which begins at 19:00 BST with the England football.

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Elsewhere today, Serena Williams is celebrating a sixth US Open and 18th Grand Slam title after she beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-3 at Flushing Meadows.

It puts the 32-year-old level with fellow Americans Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert and Williams said: "I've been trying to reach it for so long. I didn't really think I would get there. I just felt so good."

So lots of apathy towards Roy Hodgson's England at the moment. Do you agree with some of the press reports this morning that it really is win or bust for Roy in Basel tonight? How do you regard the team at present? Would they have fared as well as Scotland did in Germany last night for instance? Where can improvements be made? Please send in your thoughts to #bbcsportsday or the BBC Sport Facebook page.

Also writing in The Sun (subscription only), external today, former England skipper Alan Shearer, who was one of the many far from captivated by last week's performance against Norway.

"I did not join the TV exodus across to the Great British Bake Off but I have to admit I did doze off in front of the game," Shearer says.

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Former Manchester United boss David Moyes, writing in The Sun, backs England skipper Wayne Rooney and says: "He is really a great football person, the last of the street footballers. And he has still not lost that great love for the game, that desire to just want to play and play well. Some people might wonder if we have seen the best of him. I don't. I still believe he is one of the best in the Premier League.

"What he needs is t make sure he's not trying to do everyone else's job too. Sometimes he feels like he has to do everything. Other players have to help Wayne, find him in the right positions, supply him so he can score goals."

We'll be hearing from Phil as we build-up to tonight's match, and see if England can find the missing ingredient in Basel following the early exit at the World Cup and a less than impressive 1-0 friendly win over Norway last Wednesday, before a crowd of 40,181, the lowest at the new Wembley.

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty agrees Hodgson's team need a victory to "avoid a hasty and perhaps more forensic revisiting" of their disappointing World Cup campaign in Brazil.

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The esteemed Henry Winter in the Daily Telegraph certainly does not under estimate the importance of tonight's opening Euro 2016 qualifier for England.

Hello and welcome along to another Sportsday. A valiant, intrepid, team performance from Scotland last night that would have beaten many an international side, but world champions Germany just denied them 2-1 in Dortmund, with both goals from Thomas Muller. Tonight, the attention turns to England.