It is Lingard’s first call-up to the senior squad, having previously represented England at under-21 and under-17 level.
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Lingard was handed his United debut by van Gaal at the start of the 2014-15 season, but a serious knee injury suffered on the opening day of the season derailed his campaign.
“As an England captain and an England fan, I love that the manager has faith in the youngsters and will reward them for their performances in the club teams”.
“But the situation has changed enormously”. He is protecting him of course, but not only that he knows the standard required to be an global player and his assessment that Lingard falls short is probably fair.
Phil Jones has admitted England’s defeat to Spain last week was “difficult to take” and believes the Three Lions “matched” the reigning European champions, as per the Mirror.
It is disappointing for Carrick, who was stretchered off in Friday night’s 2-0 defeat against Spain in Alicante, as he now looks to be a big doubt for United’s clash with Watford next Saturday.
Lingard was called up following injuries to Michael Carrick and Jamie Vardy.
And he is hopeful playing with Rooney will enable him to be prolific in front of goal for England, saying: “Obviously it’s an unbelievable achievement for Wayne to be England’s all-time top goalscorer”.
“I think as a football coach you do appreciate those comments because I think he saw maybe a few of the potential we had”, said Hodgson in response.
It was going to be five but then we remembered that Nathan Redmond is injured and we couldn’t even vaguely convince ourselves about Jonny Howson…
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John Stones, the 21-year-old Everton defender, will start alongside Gary Cahill in a back four that is also expected to include Nathaniel Clyne, 24, and Kieran Gibbs, 26.
