Fabio Capello is ready to tackle his central midfield headache by challenging the wisdom that Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard cannot play together.
The Italian, who will today find out the extent of Gareth Barry's ankle problem, insists he has no problem pairing Gerrard and Lampard together at the World Cup if the Manchester City man is ruled.
Capello can hardly have been impressed with the showings of other alternatives Michael Carrick and James Milner during the 3-1 win over Mexico at Wembley on Monday night.
These two will do a good job in the center.
I have seen them play together several times and they've played together fine. It's a shame Hargreaves was injured all season because he was playing well for England before that.