He has more than 90 caps but this feels as if it is his defining moment in an England shirt.

He is leading by example, has had three assists and taken on all the responsibility really well. He wants to be the one the team relies on.'

'But we have to beware of Andrea Pirlo spraying those passes about. If he gets that chance, he can be very dangerous. And you never know just what you’re going to get with Mario Balotelli.

'There are times when he doesn’t seem to be in the game at all.

'Then he just explodes and does something extraordinary.'

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