now we know the squad - who will / should England play on the left vs USA?

Guess his squad selection means he's gonna have to play Cole there, despite having all but given up on him a couple of weeks ago. (When was the last time Capello played Cole on the left?)

Which means the starting XI for our first game will be:

------------------James---------------
Johnson----Teryy---Ferdinand---A Cole
Lennon----Lampard---Gerrard---J Cole
------------Crouch-----Rooney-----------

In which case - am I rright to think that the only progress we've made from the World Cup 4 years ago is Aaron Lennon?

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on June 2nd 2010 at 10:44:20

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now we know the squad - who will / should England play on the left vs USA? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:44:20
- james milner (n/m) (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Jun 2, 11:44:43
- He will start with Heskey and Rooney (n/m) (Other Football) - WOTB No1 Tipster 04, Jun 2, 11:12:27
  - not so sure - I think even he's starting to have his doubts - but (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:14:55
    - Joe Cole on the left. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:15:46
      - Agreed. And that's Capello's Plan B? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:16:58
        
        What, Cole on the left ? Yeah he has a few times I think. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:22:03
        
        Cole has started one competitive game for England under Capello (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:33:18
        
        (and of course - he's now not Plan B - he's Plan A, for our opening match (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:37:14
        
        Plan B is an in-game adjustment, but carry on anyway! (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:36:39
        
        see above (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:40:04
        
        see below as well but (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:55:08
        
        I remember 90 very well. And the buildup - and us stumbling (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:01:51
        
        Joe Cole on the left (what I would do) and Plan B are two entirely different (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:42:36
        
        I know you're refusing to answer this, but I'll try once more (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:54:18
        
        Cole has been injured a lot of that time (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:58:10
        
        Joe Cole (n/m) (Other Football) - WOTB No1 Tipster 04, Jun 2, 11:18:34
  - On the left ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:14:44
    - Oops. Must read better. I agree. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:15:03
- who is their quarterback? (n/m) (Other Football) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jun 2, 11:03:33
- apparently he has a specific game plan to get at USA with pace (Other Football) - samcd84, Jun 2, 10:47:23
  - Spector is pretty shit so I would imagine we are gonna attack him (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 10:59:21
- Capello isn't the clueless idiot that Erikksson was though (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:47:15
  - AND he actually has a plan B (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:11:58
    - Bollocks. The last week has taught us that he doesn't. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:15:55
      - quite the opposite. (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:49:48
      - Which last week ? It's a friendly. He is setting up to see his team play in certain (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:23:42
        
        I guess Tricky means that England were bobbins for much of the last friendly (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 11:50:45
        
        don't really care about us being bobbins (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:58:02
        
        but they didn't fail (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 12:04:04
        
        I know what you mean, but he did play Walcott, Bent, Huddlestone and Baines (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:08:17
        
        He was looking to see if they had something else to offer (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 12:14:51
        
        Agree with all of that (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:22:28
  - odd that he's ending up with almost exactly the same team though (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:48:51
    - but if he can get the team to play the right tactics then (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:00:15
      - You think? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:06:06
        
        Of course (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:13:01
    - Maybe (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:53:17
      - he causes havoc for Spurs. I'm glad he's in the team (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:57:00
        
        Walcott is a shame but he ain't been doing that well... (Other Football) - Fierce Panda, Jun 2, 11:09:56
- totally disinterested. I'll watch and enjoy it when it starts, but that's it. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Jun 2, 10:47:14
  - Exactly (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:47:49

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