on 22 august 2007, robinson made a mistake that resulted in germany scoring their first goal of the match. england lost the match 2–1 for their first loss at the new wembley stadium. he was substituted at half-time and replaced by david james, although then england manager steve mcclaren said he planned to make this substitution before the match. despite this error, robinson was still the number one goalkeeper, featuring in four further european championship qualifiers, and keeping a clean sheet in three of them. he made another mistake, however, in a 2–1 defeat against russia: robinson palmed a shot into the path of russian forward roman pavlyuchenko's path, resulting in the striker scoring russia's winning goal. as a result, mcclaren dropped robinson for the final qualifying match against croatia in november, replacing him with scott carson. england failed to qualify for the euro 2008 finals as they lost 3–2 in their final match against croatia; carson made an error from a niko kranjčar shot for the first goal.