Eriksson said: "Steven Gerrard and David Beckham were both excellent. I took them off for two reasons, as we are playing again on Wednesday and because they would have been suspended for that game if they had got booked.
"My plan was also to take off Paul Scholes, who was in the same situation, but unfortunately Emile Heskey got a knock on his knee which became worse and worse. That's why I took him off instead."
