Kane, England play Ghana at the World Cup: Prediction, team news, lineups

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Who: England vs Ghana
What: FIFA World Cup 2026 Group L match
Where: Gillette Stadium, Houston
When: Tuesday, 4pm section clip (21:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 17:00 GMT successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

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After showcasing their attacking swagger successful an entertaining World Cup opener, rubric contenders England look Ghana, looking to unafraid a spot successful the round of 32.

Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Marcus Rashford made England fans ecstatic with their goals successful the 4-2 triumph implicit Croatia, but cracks astatine the backmost person raised questions astir the team’s antiaircraft fragility.

Ghana, connected the different hand, had a much disciplined and well-balanced show successful their 1-0 triumph implicit Panama. The Black Stars are looking to beforehand to the knockouts for the archetypal clip successful 16 years.

Here is each you request to cognize astir England vs Ghana earlier the fixture:

‘England tin bushed anyone’: Rice says aft ascendant Croatia thriller

The Three Lions dominated headlines successful the British media with their thrilling triumph implicit Croatia, the 2018 runners-up and 1 of planetary football’s astir accordant tourney performers.

Midfielder Declan Rice said England’s second-half show against Croatia has acceptable the “benchmark” for the team, which is aiming to extremity its 60-year drought for a World Cup trophy.

“We cognize arsenic players the level, we cognize what’s required, and that second-half show was astir apt the benchmark for america successful presumption of having to commencement the crippled astatine that level,” Rice told reporters.

“We judge that if we tin bash that from the opening minute, with the players that we besides person to travel connected and decorativeness the game, we tin bushed immoderate hostile successful the world.

“We privation to beryllium assured successful our abilities and what we tin bash connected the pitch.”

England, though, volition beryllium wary of the menace posed by Ghana’s Antoine Semenyo, the London-born winger who is the focal constituent of the Black Stars’ attack.

England’s Jude Bellingham (#10) celebrates aft scoring his team’s 3rd extremity during their World Cup radical lucifer against Croatia astatine Dallas Stadium [Marvin Ibo Guengoer/GES Sportfoto via Getty Images]

Ghana manager Queiroz says facing England is ‘easiest’

Ghana are facing England for the archetypal clip astatine a World Cup, and triumph would corroborate their spot successful the knockouts for the archetypal clip since their memorable quarterfinal tally astatine the 2010 edition.

Does the imaginable of facing 1 of the rubric favourites marque things hard for Ghana?

The manager doesn’t deliberation so.

“This is the easiest benignant of match, due to the fact that erstwhile you’re astir to play against England, France oregon Germany, you don’t request to accidental thing to the players. They’re afloat motivated,” said manager Carlos Queiroz.

“Everybody is afloat switched on, and everybody wants to execute well.

“We cognize they person the 3 lions connected their shirt, but we travel from Ghana and person 33 cardinal lions… to combat for this game,” helium added.

England vs Ghana prediction

Stats supplier Opta’s supercomputer has handed England a whopping 78.8 percent probability of winning against Ghana, who person a specified 7.9 percent accidental of winning. There is simply a 13.3 percent probability of a draw.

Overall, England are 4th successful Opta’s predictions database for winning the 2026 World Cup, having a 10.39 percent probability of lifting the trophy. They’re down Argentina, France and Spain – successful that order.

England vs Ghana: Kickoff time, TV channel

• United Kingdom: BBC iPlayer, Red Button 1, BBC One (9pm, British Summer Time)
• Ghana: SuperSport, GTV, Sporty TV, Channel One TV (8pm, Greenwich Mean Time)
• United States: FOX, FOX One, Telemundo App, Telemundo Network, Peacock (4pm, Eastern Daylight Time)

To cheque the TV listings for your country, caput to FIFA’s TV listing schedule here.

England fans successful London observe the team’s 4-2 triumph implicit Croatia [Chris Radburn/Reuters]

How does the World Cup radical signifier work?

England, Ghana, Croatia and Panama are successful Group L.

England and Ghana, who some won their opening games and person 3 points each, are archetypal and second, respectively. Croatia are 3rd and Panama fourth, with nary points.

The apical 2 teams from each of the 12 groups – on with the 8 champion third-placed teams – proceed to the adjacent phase, the circular of 32, which has been introduced astatine the World Cup for the archetypal clip aft the enlargement of teams from 32 to 48.

Form guide

(Last 5 games, latest first)

England: W-W-W-L-D

Ghana: W-D-L-L-L

England person a amended grounds than Ghana successful the past 5 matches.

England bushed Croatia to unfastened their World Cup bid, and won against Costa Rica and New Zealand successful pre-World Cup friendlies. They mislaid to Japan and drew with Uruguay successful March warm-ups.

Ghana started their tourney with a triumph implicit Panama. They drew with Wales and mislaid to Mexico successful pre-World Cup fixtures, portion besides losing to Germany and Austria successful March friendlies.

England vs Ghana: Head-to-head

England and Ghana person played conscionable erstwhile truthful far. They faced disconnected successful a affable successful March 2011, playing retired a 1-1 draw.

England are unbeaten successful 8 erstwhile matches against African absorption astatine the World Cup, but volition beryllium facing Ghana successful a competitory fixture for the archetypal time.

Caleb Yirenkyi has scored Ghana’s lone extremity truthful acold astatine the 2026 World Cup [Kevin Sousa/Imagn Images via Reuters]

Team news: England vs Ghana

England manager Thomas Tuchel said the squad had nary wounded problems, with large midfielder Bukayo Saka nary longer successful symptom from an Achilles tendon problem.

“Bukayo is getting amended and ⁠better,” Tuchel said connected Monday. “He’s much and much escaped successful his movements. He feels nary much pain.

“He was capable to bash some our grooming sessions the past 2 days connected the highest level, truthful he’s acceptable to spell without telling you if helium volition commencement connected the bench.”

Thomas Partey missed Ghana’s opening lucifer against Panama successful Toronto, incapable to question to Canada aft his visa exertion ⁠was refused. Former Arsenal midfielder Partey faces allegations of rape and intersexual battle successful the United Kingdom. He has denied the charges.

Partey is cleared to beryllium successful the United States for the England lucifer successful Boston.

Queiroz besides said a precocious determination would beryllium made connected goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi, who was forced disconnected done wounded successful the triumph implicit Panama.

England predicted lineup

(4-2-3-1): Pickford (goalkeeper); James, Konsa, Stones, O’Reilly; Anderson, Rice; Madueke, Bellingham, Gordon; Kane

Ghana predicted lineup

(4-3-3): Asare (goalkeeper); Senaya, Adjetey, Opoku, Mensah; Yirenkyi, Partey, Sulemana; Nuamah, Ayew, Semenyo

Kane trains during a league connected June 22, 2026 successful Kansas City, Kansas, US [Richard Pelham/ Getty Images via AFP]