They're already through so rotating a bit. Seems an odd thing to get angry about. Quite happy for Konsa and Rogers to get nowhere near the pitch today and come back to Bodymoor safe and sound.
My point isn't about tonight but about reputation before form in tournaments that has hamstrung England for generations. If it's Bellingham V Rogers, pick the player in form.
Bellingham has been generally excellent for Real Madrid since coming back from injury and is probably in better "form" than Rogers is.
If it were being done on form, Bellingham should probably have been in instead of Rogers against Serbia.
So he deserves his place in the side now then. But, as one pundit on 5Live put it earlier "he has got to be in the squad and team for the USA". Which disregards the next 7 months in favour of who he is.
Unless he has a particular weird seven months, then on account of "who he is" - which is one of the best midfielders in the world, playing for the biggest club in the world in some of the biggest games in the world, I'm quite happy saying he should definitely be in the squad. Whether he's in the team, that depends on a number of other factors, of which his form is one.
Form is an important factor, but international selection never has, never will and shouldn't be picked solely on that.
If Rogers scores two goals in May and Mason Mount scores five, that "better form" just before the tournament doesn't mean Mount should be picked instead, does it? Because there is a lot more to it than that.
