Damien Delaney

But you're also at the mercy that if you do fall behind, you haven't got an awful lot of options to come back and try and win games.

Whereas the modern England squad now is just full of legs.

I mean, look at Jed Spence when he came on last night, right back, and he made that underlapping run.

And Saka on the pitch as well.

I mean, they've replaced legs with even more legs.

And they're going to be very, very difficult to play against.

And they trust that Declan Rice, they trust that Elliot Anderson, and they trust the two centre-backs.

So now all of a sudden they're defending with four, right?

So that box in two centre-backs, two centre-field players, and we're attacking with six, you know, as opposed to seven and three, essentially, or maybe, you know, six and four of what they used to do before, you know?

So they've just got more players attacking areas of the pitch.

And I think England will benefit from it.

Yeah, it did.

Rhys James going into midfield in the first half and even Bellingham coming out into the right-back area.

You know, there was a clear cohesion.

Everybody knew that when Rhys James rolls inside, it's somebody else's job.

You know, very rarely would you see the wide players coming back and Nani Maduake coming into that right-back spot because they don't want that.

So they're saying, you stay high, you stay wide, you stay on the touchline.

You know, the first half was interesting because, you know, obviously they played a back three and England left three up.

Obviously the two wide players and Kane coming deep as well.

But I felt that the problem they had was when Anthony Barry was staying at half-time, England's whole game plan now is Kane comes deep, hopefully tempted when the centre-back's in, and we just play balls in behind for two wide players and that just gets us on our way.