Losing your opening game at a World Cup is a blow and Saturday night’s defeat leaves England’s hopes of progressing hanging in the balance. But I honestly think there are more positives than negatives to take from the game, with Roy Hodgson’s gamble on Raheem Sterling - and the teenager’s fearless performance - both reasons to be optimistic. I say this with my professional head on and as an England fan, and I’d be surprised if a lot of my fellow England fans disagreed. Sure, I would have liked us to win, and we came closer than many may have expected.
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Roy Hodgson's gamble on playing Sterling paid off
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Danny Welbeck was lively and Wayne Rooney laid on the goal
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Luis Suarez close to Liverpool team-mates such as Steven Gerrard
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England play Uruguay on Thursday in World Cup Group D
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Suarez will have knowledge of how to get better of Gerrard
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Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were OK at Man Utd after 2006 World Cup
Best of enemies: @placeholder must not show Suarez (right) any mercy when England face Uruguay