I wouldn't put too much credence into the outcome of friendly games, Italy drew with Luxembourg, Germany with Cameroon and both came out on top against decent opposition in competitive fixtures using the same formations. The friendlies you are basing your all-change policy on were for acclimitisation and to intrgate some of the new less experienced players into the team, to try different formations and learn how players fair against different types of opposition.
All you ever seem to shout for on here is change. change the strikers, change the players, change the formation; change for change sake is damaging. How would any player, team or manager progress under your guidance. The constant chopping and changing would never allow any cohesion or growth in any team. The knee jerk philosophy of if it doesn't immediately reap results then change change change is what makes the managerial merry-go-round of the Premiership so laughable.
The team is improving, they are playing good football, and only narrowly lost to one of the strongest sides in the tournament; despite fielding a lot of fledgling internationals. A result that most unbiased critics felt should of ended in a draw. A result that bar the usual tired boring pub bore comments of 'England are ****, we always lose' and 'Rooney's rubbish ' had us leaving the game with more plaudits than critics. We only need to make a few tweaks to iron out the few flaws that were evident in the Italy game to improve the side enough to overcome a lacklustre Uruguay. Why you would want to scrap all that work, change all the personal, the formation and playing ethic, in the middle of a tournament from something that is working and improving the squad is beyond me. It's suicide.
Using a very narrow loss to Germany, one of the most impressive national sides of the last 4 years, a loss to Chile, one of the most impressive sides in this years World Cup, and an unfortunate narrow defeat to Italy, a side that consistantly performs at tournament level to justify your all-change policy doesn't work either. The World Champions just lost 2-0 to Chile, Portugal, a team that have just edged us twice in recent tournaments were spanked by Germany.
Change for change sake doesn't work.
Looking at your formation of 4-4-2, there's only one team that have employed it thus far, and that was Uruguay. They lacked energy, movement, link up play between midfield and forwards, were static and therefore overun from Costa Rica's fluid wing play. I just don't get your solution of removing a formation and tactics that are improving us and taking us back a decade to play a formation the players aren't familiar with players they aren't used to playing with, in the middle of a tournament?