Leaving the real England captain Big JT at home is the glaring error.
Overall he has proved better than Cole recently but last night he was not at his best and was unable to do what he was in the team for that is to defend. Even 1 on 1 he was beaten most times. The culprit last night was the manager not realizing that we had nobody filling in at left midfiled and should have made a change early on. We were loaded too much to attack on the right. I would have taken Henderson off and pushed Lallana on at left midfield.
Italy knew that they had time and space on their right side and exploited it very well.
Think Cahill could and should have done better with the 2nd goal as it went over his head and he hardly put in a challenge on Balliotelli.
I think that he has due to number of games played although Cole when brought in never let Chelsea down.