The Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere was accomodated by Fabio Capello today by playing a 4-3-3 system against Wales, and it worked as England flew into a 2-0 lead with ease. Wilshere was more than happy with his performance alongside Frank Lampard and Scott Parker, and he is hoping that they can all play together with this formation in the future.

“It was a good game to come into. A big game, a derby game, and we won, so we are happy and the 4-3-3 system worked well today.

“We got the opening two goals and that was the idea, to press them high, get early goals. We did that and we made it comfortable for ourselves.

“They had some chances but we felt in control of the game.”

Wilshere added: “The midfield shape worked well. We play it at Arsenal and it works better with one holding and two going forward.

“Scotty was great and so was Frank in there. It made it easy for me to play.

“You have to thank Scotty for that performance today and Frank is always great for England and they were brilliant again today.”

Lampard scored the opening goal, while Scott Parker has been pushing for an England place for many years with his performances for West Ham recently.

The media is always talking about the lack of leaders in this Arsenal team and how no one can take responsibility here when things go wrong.

Ramsey´s promotion as a full-time Wales captain has shown how lazy this argument actually is. There is a big difference between constructive criticism and plain winding-up, which is what large sections of the media do when it comes to Arsenal.

Being an international captain means a lot of responsibilities, being the centre of attention at press conferences and of course leading a group of players who are already at various leading clubs in global football.

We currently have five permanent international captains and that is not including our current club captain Cesc Fabregas:

Thomas Vermaelen – Captain of Belgium
Andrei Arshavin  – Captain of Russia
Aaron Ramsey – Captain of Wales
Marouane Chamakh – Captain of Morocco
Tomas Rosicky– Captain of Czech Republic

We also have two alternate captains – Samir Nasri captained France yesterday and Robin van Persie is sometimes leading the Netherlands.

Future Captains?

Cesc Fabregas could become a future captain of Spain. Casillas is 30 and the other senior players like Alonso, Xabi, Iniesta and Puyol are also around the 30-mark.

As for England, there will also be a problem with the captaincy within the next few years when Ferdinand, Terry and Lampard all become too old for international football. The one outstanding youngster for the next generation is at Arsenal and we have seen Jack Wilshere already displaying growing leadership skills in recent games against Birmingham, Barcelona or West Brom.

Полузащитник "Челси" Фрэнк Лэмпард считает, что бразильский новичок "пенсионеров" Давид Луис прекрасно подошел бы по стилю игры лондонскому "Арсеналу".

"Я очень рад, что этот игрок оказался именно у нас, так как он идеально бы подошел "Арсеналу". Я имею ввиду, что Луис способен одинаково успешно сыграть на любой позиции. Это фантастический футболист. Нам очень нравится его отношение к делу. За три недели он почти полностью освоил английский. Давид уверен в себе и ничего не боится", - сказал Лэмпард.

Напомним, что "Челси" приобрели Луиса в январе у "Бенфики" за 25 млн евро.