England forced to put plan to counter Wales’s Bale threat on back burner

• Cristiano Ronaldo’s absence from Portugal warm-up prompts rethink
• Roy Hodgson may play Wayne Rooney, Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane togetherOriginally, it all made perfect sense why England invited Portugal to be their final opponents before setting off for Euro 2016 and it all goes back to the fact Roy Hodgson’s team will encounter Gareth Bale in a couple of weeks and need to find a way to tie up the most expensive player on the planet.“One of the things we thought a