Eleven lions: The England team line up just before facing co-hosts Ukraine

The home side might have been relieved to see an England team lacking Theo Walcott, Hodgson opting for the relative safety of James Milner instead. In fairness to England’s manager he has not lacked ambition here in eastern Europe. The selection of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain against France and Carroll as partner to Welbeck against Sweden showed as much.

But it will be interesting to see what he does with his wingers now if the ankle injury
Shevchenko inflicted on Young turns out to be serious. Young hobbled away from here last night and that is a worry.

Initially, England were far too cautious against Ukraine. They were playing with patience, and passing well when they had the ball. They just weren’t seeing that much of it.

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