That's all well and good if you're playing a team that actually attacks you, but England had essentially 3 centre backs to cut out simple passes. His position required a passer to open up the field and spread Wales, fucking Carrick would have been perfect there, Wilshere even. It was all left to Rooney to play unlocking passes because the team was too slow moving the ball to open them up.

Alli was useless, must have passed it into the player in front of him a dozen times. Walker was atrocious, but that's normal Walker and he somehow gets praised for it. Woeful crossing, poor decision making, runs into a defender then stops and stands on the ball numerous times a game. Kane did nothing got dragged, Rose wasn't great either. What I'm getting at, you fill your team with a bunch of inexperienced players that have never won anything and expect them to carry your national side, unsurprising result. They all look to someone else to do something, laughable that people were suggesting he not play Rooney. Hodgson's England just look devoid of a plan again, move the ball without purpose, the forwards make asinine runs out of sync with the midfield. If they're going to play like that you have to start someone like Rashford who can take players on independent of those around him, because until he started stretching Wales it didn't matter what way England went forward it was toothless.