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Hodgson proud to see England thrive under "bold" formation

England coach Roy Hodgson was happy with his system for victory at Euro qualifying opponents Switzerland.

Hodgson explained he sent England out in a 4-4-2 diamond at St Jakob-Park because he thought it would get the best out of Wilshere and Raheem Sterling.

And the England manager looks set to continue using the system for the rest of the qualifying campaign.

"We put two important players, Jack at the base of the diamond and Raheem further forward, as we thought they would get on the ball more and the Swiss team might find it hard to deal with that, which they did," Hodgson said.

"It was a bold decision, we talked a lot about it.

"We thought there was no point in playing a conventional 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 to try to get a 0-0. We want this team to progress all the time.

"We want them to learn, to get better, to play in the systems we want them to play in so why not start as you mean to continue rather than say 'this is an important game, we mustn't get beaten' and therefore throw all of our principles out of the window."

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