England were terrible last night and it certainly isn't through good play that they topped the group. The simple fact of the matter is the other teams managed, somehow, to be worse than England.
Rooney was dreadful - quite how most of the papers are given him 7/10 is beyond me - and completely ineffective. Young was poor, yet again, Wellbeck offered nothing and Parker is miles out of his depth. Gerrard has been the best England player up to now by a long way.
Hodgson fears to change the side as it may effect his own popularity with the media, so I expect Rooney will play again in the same position against Italy, whereas the sensible thing to do would be to replace Milner with Walcott, have Rooney play behind a front two of Carroll and Wellbeck, drop Parker and Young and play a 4-3-1-2 formation.
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