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Rooney missed a sitter (for him) last night, but he also played a peach of a cross for Welbeck. Thing is, opposition teams fear the big names, they know Rooney and don't want him to play to his best. So I would play him the number 10, tell him to stay around that area, not drop deep, and make the opposition keep a man or two on top of Rooney. Would allow our other players, such as Sterling, Sturridge etc., to have a bit more space and freedom.

 

Plus, I still really want Rooney to set a WC game alight, like all his early promise showed he would. 

 

 

It was the same when Beckham was nearing the end of his career, you played him just to scare the opposition. 

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Rooney is one of our best players, he will also be captain after this World Cup. He's a quality player, playing him out of position is daft and talk of dropping him is beyond daft.

Play players in their best position.

Accept players have bad games.

 

Spot on.

 

Really frustrating that instead of backing our team, the media have decided to scapegoat one player pre-tournament & predictably, the general public start to run with the same idea too. Like the laughable b*****ks that England players "don't care about their country" or "don't have any passion".

 

The lad's still our best player - in spite of Sterling's fantastic performance last night, I would move Rooney back to the "number 10" role in behind Sturridge & tell him not to interfere with play in our defensive third. His main failing is his desire to help out in every part of the field instead of concentrating on his role. As an aside, I'd replace Welbeck with Lallana - we won't be counter attacking much against Uruguay as they'll sit behind the ball en masse. Therefore, the priority is creativity & ability to retain possession rather than the out & out speed & workrate that Welbeck provides.

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There's at least 3 players I'd drop before getting onto Rooney.

Johnson

Gerrard

Welbeck

Kyle Walker is a Johnson clone. Need to start trying RB's to find a solution.

Gerrard and Welbeck not as good as many of the youngsters.

Think Rooney and Milner get too much stick when there's worse than both. Milner defensively is really decent.

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I'd like to see a Henderson and Wilshire midfield partnership in the future, but I think Milner probably deserves a start in the holding role. Lallana simply HAS to play, him and Sturridge have had the best seasons out of anyone in the team.

 

Pretty **** luck that Walcott's injured, because this would actually be a decent line up.

 

-------------Sturridge-----------

Lallana----Rooney----Walcott

 

But right now, I'd play Sterling there. I'd fall asleep if we had Milner there.

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Welbeck wouldn't be at the World Cup if he was German, Argentine, Brazilian, French, Spanish, Dutch etc..

 

I really don't see what he offers.

 

Rooney needs to be in the number 10 role, but then again Sterling is a better ball-carrier and he looked far better in the middle than out wide last night.

 

It's a dilemma, as you're going to remove a great threat in either Sterling or Rooney - but which one?

 

Agree with Alpha, James Milner is a brilliant defensive winger - he'd have been far better on the left than Rooney/Welbeck to stop Italy's attacks down their right - but that is said with hindsight.

 

One thing that puzzed me yesterday was why Rickie Lambert wasn't thrown on at the end. It was obvious italy were shutting up shop and our only option was to get the ball wide and throw crosses in. Bringing on Lallana and Barkley was a waste, one of them yes, but not both...

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