Fabio Capello never had any doubts he could get the best out of Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard for England.
With Gerrard in such scintillating form for Liverpool, where he effectively fills the same space 'in the hole' as Rooney, it was feared Capello, like Sven-Goran Eriksson and Steve McClaren before him, may lose something from one in order to get the best out of the other.
Previously Frank Lampard has been the man Gerrard has found his immense talent sacrificed for. Clearly though, Capello has an insight which evaded his predecessors.
For, just as in Belarus last October, Gerrard was offered licence to roam in from the left against Slovakia last night, smoothly interchanging positions with Rooney at regular intervals.
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