Former England captain Stephen Gerrard has said Wayne Rooney deserves more credit for the way he has changed his positions and game over time.
The United captain stated out as a brilliant, ferocious striker, but has over the years dropped deep and is turning out to be a great midfielder.
Rooney was one of the best England players in the ongoing European Championship, a competition he was under intense criticism heading into.
The Liverpool legend says the change Rooney has undergone requires 'most mature football brain.'
"There should be greater appreciation for how he has evolved his game.
It is not easy to go from being a striker, to a No. 10 and then a No. 8, as he is at the moment. Not all players can do it." Gerrard wrote in the Telegraph.
"It involves seeing the game from an entirely new perspective, knowing how and when to change the tempo. You have to be able to weigh your passes, see the bigger picture across the park, control the game and at the same time get involved in far more duels with players than you would as an out-and-out striker. You go from being the goal scorer to the creator.
"To make that transition successfully - particularly at international level - takes an unbelievable amount of skill and the most mature football brain."
Unfortunately, the Three Lions have crashed out the European Championship, surprisingly to Iceland.
