There's a difference between playing as a striker for England and lurking at the back post for tap ins at Man City.
Sterling's game is about movement and speed. At City, they create chaos in the final third and carve open a lot of straightforward finishes. It suits him.
For England, his poor touch and technique gets shown up as he ends up crowded out by opposition defenders quite easily.
If we were playing a different system he'd be more effective. As a second "striker" I'd much sooner have Rashford.
Against Sweden, I'd be tempted to change the midfield shape slightly from one pivot and two runners behind a front two to a platform of two midfielders (Henderson and RLC) and two runners (Rashford, Lingard) behind Kane. Last night the link between midfield and attack wasn't there.
I'd also bring Rose or Delph (paternity leave FFS, why is he in the squad?) in for Young as we got much more penetration down the right via Trippget than we are getting witj Young down the left.