Kane, Ali were still broken from Spurs' end of season it seems. Sterling was broken from not playing for the last 6 months.
Vardy doesn't suit International football when we are the dominant team, even he knows that which is why he turned down Arsenal.
Rooney isn't a CM
Smalling & Cahill are solid enough, but neither of them are organisers or leaders, in fact not one English player is a leader in that squad. Not one player that when the times get tough you could turn to and look at them and they'd rattle a few cages.
Go back and you had Terry, Shearer, Ince, Adams, Pearce... players that would get stuck into their team mates and tell them the truth. You look at that England squad, and like Liverpool there is no player that can stand up tall and had that leadership.
It seems all English players want to be all silky technical players that the mental aspect of the game has gone out the window over last 10 years.
They didn't really fare any better in international football though...



