Owen Hargreaves & Jermaine Jenas are in line to start tomorrow nights match against Sweeden. wayne Rooney is also expected to start. Do you think Sven is right to rest Gerrard, Lampard & Crouch & replace them with those 3 players or should he use other players. i think he should play Michael Carrick. I think Carrick is a better player than Hargreaves & Jenas put together. I dont think Rooney should start bring him on for the second half but not for the full 90 minutes as Sven robably will do

Owen Hargreaves is the worst player on the England Squad in my eyes so I'm gutted he's playing.

Sven should rest everybody on a Yellow card (Lampard, Crouch and Gerrard).

Gary Neville is definetley out as he has a calf muscle strain.

Rooney should only play the second half and Owen in the first half.

I agree with you thats why hes playing them 3. I still think he should play Carrick mabye he should start having an affair with sven then he might get a game.

Eriksson brought Jenas, Hargreaves and Carrick for reasons exactly like this - protecting the bigger players, so they should play. Lampard, Gerrard and Crouch shouldn't feature as they're all on 1 yellow card. Rooney and Owen should be starting anyway, to get match fit and try and get some confidence but Rooney isn't going to last 90 minutes, so Walcott should come on. If he doesn't play against Sweden, he's not going to play at all is he?

Start with Rooney and Owen, bring Walcott on for Rooney at half-time (I'm convinced Defoe should be there instead, but that's besides the point). Hargreaves or Carrick yes, we need a holding midfielder. Jenas no, I'm not convinced by him at all. I'd actually consider the diamond here; Joe Cole at the tip, Hargreaves the holding midfielder, Downing on the left, Beckham on the right with Lennon replacing him in the second half.

Back four, in the absence of any yellow cards, picks itself.

Well said. Particularly the bit about Andy Johnson :-D:-D