On the plus side, Lee Carsley now has a ready-made reply the next time he's asked if all of England's best young attackers can fit into the same team. The downside for the interim manager is that in finding out the answer he might have dented his prospects of getting the job full-time.

Lee Carsley ran into the first problems of his tenure as England's interim coach after a bold team selection backfired in a 2-1 home loss to Greece in the Nations League.

The obvious reaction to England's shock 2-1 defeat by Greece on Thursday would be to blame the radical selection of stand-in coach Lee Carsley, but the key moments came not in the crowded midfield but when England had numbers galore at the back.