England’s starting XI for their World Cup clash with Ghana has been leaked with Thomas Tuchel making two changes for their second class
England’s starting side has been leaked with Thomas Tuchel making changes from their opening clash with Croatia.
The Three Lions are going into the match against Ghana after a 4-2 win over the 2018 finalists. And Marc Guehi and Djed Spence are set to be introduced to the team for Tuchel’s second World Cup match.
England can secure their place in the knockout stages with a win over Ghana in Boston. Guehi and Spence both made appearances off the bench in the opener – but they are both set to earn a start, with Spence in the place of Nico O’Reilly.
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Spence made the bigger impact of the pair, providing an assist for Marcus Rashford to put the game beyond any doubt against Croatia.
While Guehi makes his way into the squad in place of former Manchester City team-mate John Stone – who he replaced in the opener.
It’s claimed by various reports the rest of the starting side will remain the same, including Anthony Gordon over Marcus Rashford.
Speaking ahead of the game, Tuchel said: “We need to do things better. Defensively we dropped a little too deep from a middle block into a low block and deep block, which is in itself not a problem, but we went a bit too early.
“We were a bit too man-man focused and didn’t rely enough on our structure to be able to push out again.
“If you just look at our goal that we conceded we played a back seven formation, which is just not us. Maybe it is good that we conceded, because it just tells us: ‘Let’s not do this again.’
“It makes no sense, it’s not us, it doesn’t play to our strengths. We had too many easy ball losses after ball wins, so we had a huge effort against the ball, win the ball, gave it back straight away.
“We need to manage these ball wins better and in ball possession there is also stuff to improve.
“When do we accelerate the game, and how do we give the man on the ball more options in the gaps and show a bit more confidence into what makes us strong? That’s the beauty of it: we don’t need to invent anything new.
“But I was also very clear to the team: we deserved this win. We had a well-deserved win. And we have a lot of positives to take away, and I expect a very different team and a very different setup now.
“We need to improve especially our structure with the ball to be ready to defend counterattacks before they become dangerous.”