Source: Team_Talk
Wilshere handed Under-21s call up
Stuart Pearce has called up the 17-year-old following an injury to Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba ahead of the clash at Euroborg Stadion in Groningen.
Wilshere's talent has been compared by his Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger to that of Wayne Rooney.
And the midfielder - already capped at under-19 level - has been suggested as having an outside chance to play in the World Cup at the end of the season, with Fabio Capello monitoring his progress.
Pearce is also part of Capello's backroom staff and will report back to the Italian.
He also wants to finalise his plans ahead of the European Championship qualifying campaign, starting next month with trips to Macedonia and Greece.
It is the first match for Pearce's team since losing 4-0 to Germany in the final of the tournament in Sweden this summer.
Pearce told the FA's website: "Our planning and preparation was geared up towards us winning the tournament and having not come back with the trophy is disappointing.
"But if the last game is taken out of the equation, nine out of 10 boxes were ticked. The training camp, the staff and the work that went into it was absolutely top notch.
"We needed to win 15 matches to win the tournament and we got results in 14 of them. There was a lot of good points to take out of it and a lot of players enhanced their reputations from this tournament and hopefully they'll kick on and push for the seniors.
"Now we need to keep going forward and hopefully go one step further next time.
"Ten of the players we took go again this time around. Two years ago we had maybe five or six players with that experience going into the new campaign.
"The mix of those going this time are very much in the defence and central area of midfield, more so than in the wide areas and up front, which in itself might cause a problem to us. But there will be players who have not made their mark yet at club level who'll come through."
Pearce is expecting the Dutch to provide stern opposition.
"We're playing against one of the top-line nations in Europe," he added. "The good thing is over the last six months, we've taken on some big nations.
"This is going to be a very important game for us, we're starting again with a new group of players, a new campaign and straight after this game we're going to be in a situation where we're into five qualifiers in a short space of time."
