England will look to get their World Cup qualifying campaign back on track when they host Moldova at Wembley Friday.
Roy Hodgson's men have been a little underwhelming in their qualifiers so far and face the real threat of not booking a place in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil if they don't find their feet soon.
The England manager has had to suffer the loss of some key players through injury, none more important than Wayne Rooney, while the likes of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Phil Jones, Daniel Sturridge and Glen Johnson are also missing.
"They are very important players to lose, but when a player can't make it for one reason or another it's an opportunity for the man who has maybe been sitting back trying to take his place to come in and shine," Hodgson said.
"I'm expecting (Kyle) Walker, (Rickie) Lambert, these kinds of players, to make it clear that they should be there, they deserve to be there and have the quality to be there.
"We have four games and in each of those games we need results and we need wins. I'm not sure the best way to get wins is to play a team I believe could be weaker in the hope that another team will be stronger.
"I expect that if I wanted to play exactly the same team on Friday night and Tuesday night, that would be possible, barring injury."
England skipper is keeping his eye only on the game against Moldova despite a tough away match against Ukraine looming large next Tuesday.
"We certainly need to start the game and take it to them," Gerrard said. "The pressure is on us and we accept that, but we are confident we can get the job done.
"In many ways Tuesday will be a more difficult test, but we've still got to beat Moldova, be professional and put in a good performance.
"We show the same attitude as we did when we went away from home then I'm sure we can win tomorrow night as well, but it's a big week and we need as many points as possible."
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England lineup: Hart; Walker, Cahill, Jagielka, Cole; Gerrard, Wilshere, Lampard; Walcott, Lambert, Welbeck.
