World Cup 2010: James Milner can more than make up for the loss of David Beckham

By Sandy Macaskill 730AM GMT eighteen March 2010

Man of the impulse James Milner celebrates his leader opposite Wigan Photo AP

The Aston Villa midfielder, who surfaced what Martin O"Neill glowingly described as an additional "extraordinary" opening with a idea opposite Wigan on Tuesday night, has already been praised time but series this season, but his one after another ceiling arena has taken a little of the sting out of David Beckham"s Achilles damage and according to John Carew, Milner will fool around a consequential purpose for England this summer.

The twenty-four year-old lacks Beckham"s substantial experience and the faith the former England captain would no disbelief have brought to the sauce room, but his Villa team-mate Carew believes he creates up for it with on-field comprehension and an roughly unmatched work-rate to boot, that will be of poignant value to England at the World Cup.

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"David"s a good kid and I"m unequivocally contemptible after he"s been operative so tough to get fit," Carew said. "It will be a loss for England, but that"s piece of football. James has the capacity to step in, but he would have been unequivocally close to starting games for England anyway. He"ll be really critical for England."

If Milner was already a faith in Fabio Capello"s mind, it could be that Ashley Young benefits majority from Beckham"s injury. Young need usually take a see at one of Milner"s ProZone graphics that see as though a kid has left to locale with a felt-tip for ideas on what to do. Capello is a well known suitor of Milner"s capability to fool around in majority positions, but it was his work-rate that won the Italian over.

Carew has never been one of the how to put this busiest players, but that is not to meant he does not admire the trait in others.

"James has been extraordinary for us this year," Carew said. "He has a good football head, but he"s using all over the place. He manages to follow the round to the dilemma dwindle in the last notation when majority people"s legs have gone. His work-rate contingency be one of the majority appropriate in the Premier League."

Milner"s second-half idea opposite Wigan, struck from outward the area by a vanquish of bodies, has taken Villa to inside of 3 points of Tottenham in the fourth Champions League place.

Home fixtures opposite Wolves and Sunderland suggest a luscious event to connect their on all sides and have the majority of a diversion in palm on Spurs prior to they transport to Stamford Bridge at the finish of the month.

The usually disastrous is that Gabby Agbonlahor has suffered a groin injury.