Cole was introduced as a half-time substitute and needed just four minutes to spare Fabio Capello's blushes after England had laboured against the part-time opposition during the opening period at Montjuic.
The Chelsea midfielder's second came soon after and with it came all three points as Capello got his qualifying campaign for the 2010 tournament in South Africa off to a winning, if not spectacular, start.
With one eye of Wednesday's match in Croatia, which will provide a far sterner test for Capello's side, the England boss opted to field a slightly weakened side, Glen Johnson replacing Wes Brown at right-back and Stuart Downing being preferred to Cole on the left
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