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- 6m ago England XI: Henderson, Madueke, Jones all start
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36s ago 15.55 BST Thomas Tuchel has picked a very attacking side – an understandable approach with England likely to have around 80 per cent possession, which it itself is around 72 per cent of the law. It looks like a 3-2-4-1 formation, but who can really tell. What we can say with complete conviction is that there are five changes from the 3-0 win over Latvia in March. Dan Burn, Jordan Henderson, Curtis Jones, Noni Madueke and Cole Palmer replace Marc Guehi, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Declan Rice, Jarrod Bowen and Marcus Rashford. Of those five, Rice and Lewis-Skelly are on the bench. Their Arsenal teammate, as reported earlier, isn’t quite fit enough to be in the squad.
6m ago 15.50 BST England XI: Henderson, Madueke, Jones all start England (possible 3-4-2-1) Pickford; James, Konsa, Burn; Madueke, J Henderson, Jones, Rogers; Palmer, Bellingham; Kane. Substitutes: Walker, Rice, Colwill, Gibbs-White, Gordon, D Henderson, Toney, Eze, Alexander-Arnold, Lewis-Skelly, Trafford, Chalobah.
9m ago 15.46 BST A question for the floor When was last’s England genuinely shocking defeat during qualification for a major tournament? Northern Ireland away in 2005? And even that – memorable though it was – didn’t really threaten England’s participation at Germany 2006. For a defeat that was both shocking and potentially decisive, you probably have to go back to Maggie Tattcher’s darkest hour in 1981. England were in all sorts after that defeat in Norway and only qualified because Romania – a point behind with two games in hand – made a complete Horlicks of the run-in.
Source: The Guardian.
