Fabio Capello's odd decisions don't simply extend to throwing around the captaincy as though it means nothing to anyone - the England manager looks as though he's experimenting with an entirely new shape against Wales at the Millennium stadium today. Three central midfielders have been included in his starting lineup: Jack Wilshere, Frank Lampard, and Scott Parker, which would seem to imply... well, nobody really knows. Based on personnel, England could play a 4-4-2 midfield diamond with Ashley Young as the trequartista, or they could use Young as a winger and push Wayne Rooney outside as well.
Wales Vs. England, Euro 2012 Qualifiers: England Lineup
Then again, Capello might have just decided that Parker is a left midfielder. Raise your hands if that would shock anyone. Joe Hart will start in goal, shielded in front by a centre back partnership of John Terry (who is of course wearing the armband) and Michael Dawson. The fullbacks will be Glen Johnson on the right - how glad he is not to be facing the menace of Gareth Bale - and Ashley Cole on the left, and nobody's really sure where Wayne Rooney, Darren Bent, and Ashley Young will actually end up. Oh, and Matt Jarvis doesn't even make the bench, which makes this not his debut after all.
England (4-1-2-3, maybe): Hart; Cole, Terry, Dawson, Johnson; Parker; Lampard, Wilshere; Rooney, Bent, Young.
Substitutes: Rob Green, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott, James Milner, Stewart Downing, Jermain Defoe, Andy Carroll.
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