Of all the players you're not convinced by Rooney?
We were shocking. I thought the Capello era was going to make us into a decent team, but it's just the same as the Sven era. The England team lacks passion, detirmination and any flair. We don't have enough decent strikers, this is proven by Heskey's inclusion in the team. Defoe's massively over-rated, he has a poor international record, yet continually gets a chance. Crouch only performs against the crap teams. Heskey is crap. Owen is constantly injured. Rooney isn't an out and out striker, hence the lack of goals, he needs a partner.
We also need to realise that both Lampard and Gerrard can't play in the same team together. Gerrard's the better player, so should be picked. We just keep playing Gerrard out of position and it doesn't work. Capello seriously needs to make some big changes, both to the personell and to the mentality of the team. We were shite last night.
My team would be:
---------------------------------James/Green-----------------------------
----Richards----------Terry-------------------Ferdinand--------Cole--
-----------------------------------Barry-------------------------------------
----------Bentley-------------------------------------------Young--------
----------------------------------Gerrard-----------------------------------
------------------------Rooney------------Owen--------------------------
Rooney needs a partner, and no matter what anyone says, Owen's still the best out and out striker we have. He may have lost abit of the sharpness, but he's more than capable of scoring alot of international goals. Gerrard gets an attacking midfield role, and has the freedom to go forward, knowing that Barry will sit in behind him and support the back 4. You then have the 2 best English wingers in the Premier League, in Bentley and Young. Beckham proved last night that he's past it.
The back 4 and keeper then pick themselves for me. No better back 4 than that when available, Brown and Neville don't offer the attack flair of Richards anyway.
At least we'd get to see an attacking England with abit of flair with that team. I'd then consider Agbonlahor up front if Owen is struggling, and then Walcott provides another option on the wings if an injury occurs. We just need to start playing some proper football, and not try and stick to the international standard of trying to pass the ball around and play boring football. We need to be positive to win games, and I think we would be with that team.
