Norway vs England - prediction, team news, lineups | World Cup 2026

Fighting for the close to perchance extremity Argentina's World Cup 2026 rubric defence, Norway and England transverse paths astatine the Hard Rock Stadium connected Saturday evening, successful a mouthwatering Miami quarter-final.

The Three Lions laughed successful the look of pre-match adversity successful the past 16, overcoming co-hosts Mexico 3-2, arsenic did the Scandinavians successful their 2-1 upset of Brazil.

Match preview

Two years connected from Alan Shearer's memorable "pressure is for tyres" epithet astatine Euro 2024, a caller colloquialism has been coined aft England's 2,200-metre triumph; altitude is for planes.

A kickoff clip farce, the perpetual right-back situation and Mexico's impeccable tourney grounds represented further hurdles for Thomas Tuchel's men to overcome, and immoderate fans perusing the best World Cup betting sites could person been forgiven for taking a punt connected the co-hosts successful the Azteca cauldron.

However, brace scorer Jude Bellingham, punishment aficionado Harry Kane, large Dan Burn and each jock successful achromatic made the deficiency of slumber worthwhile for England fans, who witnessed the 10-man Three Lions scope the World Cup quarter-finals for the 11th time.

Supporters witnessed an unfamiliar yet unwavering England squad astatine the Azteca, wherever the Three Lions posted their lowest-ever possession full successful a World Cup lucifer connected grounds - 33.2% - but exhibited devastating counter-attacking and diligent defending successful adjacent measure.

England present caput to Florida connected a three-match winning streak - scoring astatine slightest doubly successful each of those victories - portion earning six successes signifier their past 7 matches each told, the solitary blip being the goalless gully with Ghana.

However, continental clashes connected the planetary signifier person been England's kryptonite successful caller times; 5 of the Three Lions' past six World Cup knockout exits person travel astatine the hands of European teams, including each of their past three.

Norway's sole nonaccomplishment astatine the 2026 World Cup truthful acold coincidentally came successful their lone erstwhile lucifer against a European federation - a 4-1 reverse to France with a second-string squad - since erstwhile Africa and South America person proven nary lucifer for the rampant rowers.

Erling Haaland exuded eventual nonchalance erstwhile picking retired the bottommost country from thing against Brazil, aft helium had already headed his federation into the pb against the five-time winners, whose 100th-minute Neymar punishment was acold excessively little, acold excessively late.

Making a mockery of Carlo Ancelotti's major-tournament nous, Norway maintained their exceptional grounds of having ne'er mislaid to Brazil successful elder men's football, portion reaching the past 8 of the World Cup for the archetypal clip successful their history.

Entertaining the neutrals arsenic good arsenic their fervent fanbase, Stale Solbakken's broadside person scored (12 successful total) and conceded (nine) successful each of their 5 World Cup games truthful far; the lone erstwhile squad to scope the semi-finals portion netting 10 goals and shipping 10 goals is the 1954 West Germany side, who went connected to go champions.

However, Norway person ne'er beaten a chap European squad successful the World Cup, nor person they managed to people successful immoderate of their past 4 meetings with England, who pb the head-to-head full with 7 wins to two.

Not since 2014 person the 2 quarter-finalists locked horns though - Wayne Rooney's punishment carried England to a 1-0 affable triumph that time - and it would beryllium nary daze to spot spot kicks find who meets Argentina oregon Switzerland successful the last four.

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Team News

Unless a Donald Trump-recommended reappraisal and arguable reprieve is connected the way, England volition beryllium without Jarell Quansah for the quarter-finals aft the Bayer Leverkusen defender's consecutive reddish paper for a precocious tackle connected Mexico's Jesus Gallardo.

With Reece James inactive a hamstring doubt, Tuchel should play it harmless and beforehand the fit-again Djed Spence backmost to the starting lineup, though 1 of John Stones and Ezri Konsa could alternatively shuffle over.

On the wounded front, England's jubilation astatine the Azteca was somewhat soured by a bizarre mishap involving Jordan Henderson, who damaged his wrist successful a mishap with the advertizing hoardings and has been ruled retired for the remainder of the World Cup aft undergoing surgery.

Marc Guehi and Declan Rice were besides restricted to idiosyncratic enactment earlier this week, but determination is thing to suggest that either antheral is astatine hazard of missing the Miami battle.

Meanwhile, Norway left-back David Moller Wolfe was forced disconnected conscionable earlier the extremity of the last-16 triumph implicit Brazil, but helium has resumed afloat grooming and is not a interest whatsoever for the quarter-finals.

Solbakken truthful has the champion benignant of enactment dilemmas with a afloat squad, arsenic some Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup - who acceptable up some goals past clip retired - are threatening to displace Alexander Sorloth and Antonio Nusa respectively.

Still vying for the Golden Boot with 7 goals to his name, Haaland has converted 39% of his shots astatine the World Cup truthful far, the champion complaint of immoderate subordinate with 15+ attempts astatine the tourney since Gary Lineker successful 1986.

Norway imaginable starting lineup:

Nyland; Ryerson, Ajer, Heggem, Wolfe; Berg, Berge; Bobb, Odegaard, Schjelderup; Haaland

England imaginable starting lineup:

Pickford; Spence, Konsa, Guehi, O'Reilly; Rice, Anderson; Saka, Bellingham, Gordon; Kane

We say: Norway 2-2 England (a.e.t, England triumph connected penalties)

Norway's propensity to people and concede volition surely travel to the fore erstwhile again astatine the Hard Rock Stadium, wherever Tuchel's men tin counter-attack astatine gait but tin beryllium dealt a Haaland-sized hammer stroke with conscionable 1 antiaircraft error.

One-hundred and 20 minutes of shot should not beryllium capable to abstracted these 2 sides, successful a contention that volition astir surely unrecorded up to the pre-game hype, but England's acquisition successful large tourney shootouts whitethorn beryllium the deciding factor.

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