England boss Roy Hodgson reckons he is spoiled for choice in attack

Harry Kane, Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy all started for England against Portugal at Wembley on Thursday night

England boss Roy Hodgson reckons he is in the fortunate position of being spoiled for choice in attacking positions going into Euro 2016.

Hodgson takes his squad to France on Monday in a confident mood following friendly wins against Turkey, Australia and Portugal.
Chris Smalling's late header secured a 1-0 win against Portugal on Thursday but was unable to mask an underwhelming display, when attack rather defence was the area of concern.

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Hodgson was unable to effectively find a way to get the triumvirate of Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy into the same line-up, but the manager insists working out how best to embrace England's abundance of attacking talent is a welcome issue.
"I think that's a good problem to have, shoehorning in attacking players," he said.

England boss Roy Hodgson watches his side against Portugal at Wembley

"For long periods of time, I don't know that I've had that situation where there's a lot of good attacking players to shoehorn so you won't find me complaining about that.
"You would find me complaining if we weren't defending well as a team, conceding lots of goals, chances and every time we played, we needed to score three to win a game so I've seen no evidence of that."

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While the critics are focusing on how to best utilise skipper Rooney in France, especially having impressed in midfield for Manchester United, Hodgson did not want to focus on England's all-time top scorer.
Hodgson instead praised the likes of Adam Lallana, Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge, while acclaiming Rooney's display at Wembley.

Chris Smalling (6) scores for England against Portugal at Wembley

"I'll allow you to write whatever you think about Wayne Rooney, but I'm not prepared to make this 'the Wayne Rooney show'," Hodgson said. "Wayne was one of the players out there.
"Once again we changed our system, as we've done on several occasions, we started with two strikers, Rooney in a number 10 position.

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"Then we decided when we brought on Sterling in particular and Lallana, we changed Sturridge too, and played a more traditional way if you like, if you think the way we've played over the last couple of years with Sterling on one side, Lallana on the other, Sturridge down the middle.
"Which one works best? Well, you have to be careful there because the three at the end, they were playing against a team which was tiring and furthermore they were playing against a team that had allowed total domination of the ball, whereas the first lads were playing for at least 35 minutes against 11 men who had some desire to attack."