England caretaker manager Stuart Pearce warns national team to learn from Holland and become more streetwise Van Bommel. "You play 100 times for your country and all of a sudden you've seen everything before," continued Pearce. Some of our players have not seen the tricks of the game before. Maybe they make a mistake but don't know how to rectify that. Do they chase the game? Do they sit back? Having fought their way back into Wednesday's friendly with goals from Gary Cahill and Ashley Young, England failed to concentrate. Leighton Baines stood slightly off Arjen Robben, who scored a late winner. As well as the disruptive ploys of Van Bommel, Pearce spoke of the importance of unstinting focus. When I talk about game management, I am talking about shutting games out at 2-2. When to go and attack, when to take your time on an injury when the game is going against you. All slight subtleties of the game. When I played on the international stage many times, the foreign nationals sometimes have that know-how. Our game week to week in the Premier League is gung-ho all the time. When you get to major tournaments it can't be gung-ho all the time because of the climate, the altitude, and we have to learn those little things going into tournament football. I don't think any English team should have an inferiority complex. The players play week in, week out at a very high standard with their clubs, Champions League, whatever. It's getting that little bit of know-how. Game management is an important thing for English players to learn."" Pearce feels England developed under him in the 72 hours they spent together this week. Ask the players, ask the staff how they feel the professionalism of the place has been and the mood of the camp. We have not got the desired result, we are disappointed in that, but we learned a great deal about some of the young players. Danny Welbeck worked hard up front. The two goalscorers were very good. They were the pick. The captain had a good, steady game and made some fantastic blocks in the first half."" Pearce said that with more togetherness and "a bit of belief"" England could still find Euro 2012 "an exciting tournament"." He did agree with former England manager Fabio Capello's theory that the Euros were harder than the World Cup. The one thing a World Cup would throw up is you might play a lesser nation so you can gather that momentum by getting out of the group. We're in a really tough group with the French, Ukrainians on home soil and the Swedes. In the Euros you have to hit the ground running. Make no mistake, against France in the first game you have got to be running very quick. But I have been to so many tournaments where we have got out the group somehow, and when we have gone out in the semi-final, it seems a travesty because we played extremely well. In Italia 1990. Euro "96 was the same. You have to go to these major tournaments with a bit of know-how and gather that belief within the team as you tick along and hopefully gain results. Pearce will take England to the Euros if the Football Association fails to find a full-time successor to Capello. "All I have done is bought my employers some thinking time in regard to the next manager coming through the door," said Pearce. If they have got someone in place all well and good. If they need someone to fill in, fantastic, I'll do it with pleasure, the planning is all in place. It's an ideal situation for the Football Association to be in, I believe. Pearce maintained that he could do the Euros but not 2014 World Cup qualifying. At this moment in time in my development I am not ready for the senior international job. But I feel more than comfortable preparing a team to take them to a major tournament. I have no doubts about my ability.