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Roy Hodgson believes England's youngsters will benefit from their experience with the squad at Euro 2012

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Roy Hodgson believes the younger members of his England squad will benefit from their Euro 2012 experience.

Experience

With Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney, Hodgson has retained a core of experienced players he hopes will allow England to progress. "The loss of some key players did affect us (during Euro 2012)," he said. "Experience and ability is what it is all about at the level we were playing at and I don't think we played anything like as well as I would like to think an England team can play. "But on the other hand, I thought we showed a lot of other English qualities. "The team spirit, the workrate, the determination, the desire to throw your body in the way of the ball to make certain the team got a result. "Going into the Euros my major concern was making sure the environment was right, that the players felt comfortable and were happy to be there. "I can be very happy with what we achieved in that respect but let's hope we can get to the next tournament and show we are an even better team than we were in the last one."

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