Football World Cup 2018 / England

Football World Cup 2018 : England
Trainer	Gareth Southgate
captain	Harry Kane
Qualified as	Winner Europe Group F
World rankings before the tournament	12
Tournament result	4th place
Games won	4th
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	16:11

This article covers the English national football team at the 2018 World Cup . England took part in the finals for the fifteenth time.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

England met in Group F on Slovakia , Scotland , Slovenia , Lithuania and Malta . In the ten resulting games, the English team won eight and played twice. England qualified ahead of schedule for the World Cup finals on the penultimate matchday. The English and Spain conceded the fewest goals (3), but only scored half as many goals as the Iberians. The English were champions of late goals, five of which came in stoppage time, two were the 1-0 winners and one made the final score 2-2.

A total of 31 players were used, 17 of whom were already in the EM squad . Thirteen players were used in at least five games, but no player in all ten games. Two players - goalkeepers Joe Hart and Kyle Walker - were used in nine games. Both were not used only in the last game, which was no longer decisive for qualification. Harry Maguire and Harry Winks made their first international appearance in this last qualifying game, Jesse Lingard already in the second qualifying game on October 8, 2016 against Malta. England began qualifying under team manager Sam Allardyce , who had taken over the team after leaving the European Championship. After a meeting staged by journalists from the Daily Telegraph with alleged investors from the Far East, at which he gave these tips on how to circumvent the Football Association (FA) transfer rules, made fun of his predecessor Roy Hodgson, denigrated national players and the association as "stupid" and is said to have signed a £ 400,000 consultancy agreement with the alleged investors, he was dismissed by the association after just 68 days. Gareth Southgate , head coach of the England U-21 national team, took over the managerial position on an interim basis . Under him, Malta was defeated 2-0, reached a 0-0 in Slovenia and defeated Scotland 3-0. At the end of November he became the head coach of the Three Lions . The English went into the qualification with Wayne Rooney as captain, but he was only used in the first four games and announced his retirement from the national team on August 23, 2017 after he was not considered in two qualifying games and three friendly games.

The top scorer was Harry Kane with five goals , but only scored in four of the last five games. Three players scored two goals each and seven players each scored one goal. Ryan Bertrand scored his first international goal in the qualifying matches in a 4-0 win against Malta.

The English played all home games at London's Wembley Stadium .

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for England
09/04/2016	Trnava	Slovakia	-	England	0: 1 (0: 0)	Adam Lallana (90 + 5.)
10/08/2016	London	England	-	Malta	2: 0 (2: 0)	Daniel Sturridge (29th), Dele Alli (38th)
10/11/2016	Ljubljana	Slovenia	-	England	0-0
11/11/2016	London	England	-	Scotland	3: 0 (1: 0)	Daniel Sturridge (24.), Adam Lallana (50.), Gary Cahill (61.)
03/26/2017	London	England	-	Lithuania	2: 0 (1: 0)	Jermain Defoe (21st), Jamie Vardy (66th)
06/10/2017	Glasgow	Scotland	-	England	2: 2 (0: 0)	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (70th), Harry Kane (90 + 3rd)
09/01/2017	Attard	Malta	-	England	0: 4 (0: 0)	Harry Kane (53rd, 90 + 2nd), Ryan Bertrand (85th), Danny Welbeck (90 + 1st)
04.09.2017	London	England	-	Slovakia	2: 1 (1: 1)	Eric Dier (37th), Marcus Rashford (59th)
05.10.2017	London	England	-	Slovenia	1: 0 (0: 0)	Harry Kane (90 + 4.)
08/10/2017	Vilnius	Lithuania	-	England	0: 1 (0: 1)	Harry Kane (27th / penalty)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	10	8th	2	0	018: 300	+15	26th
2.	Slovakia	10	6th	0	4th	017: 700	+10	18th
3.	Scotland	10	5	3	2	017:120	+5	18th
4th	Slovenia	10	4th	3	3	012: 700	+5	15th
5.	Lithuania	10	1	3	6th	007:200	−13	06th
6th	Malta	10	0	1	9	003:250	−22	01

Note: The second-placed Slovaks missed the playoff games of the group runners-up as the worst runners-up in the group.

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	English goal scorers
November 10, 2017	0-0	Germany (TV)	London
November 14, 2017	0-0	Brazil	London
23 March 2018	1-0	Netherlands	Amsterdam	Jesse Lingard (59.)
March 27, 2018	1: 1	Italy	London	Jamie Vardy (26.)
2nd June 2018	2: 1	Nigeria	London	Gary Cahill (7th), Harry Kane (39th)
7th June 2018	2-0	Costa Rica	Leeds	Marcus Rashford (13th), Danny Welbeck (76th)

Note: Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup

Quarter

The team quarters were the “forRestMix Club Sport & Relax” in Saint Petersburg , where the team could train in the Spartak Zelenogorsk Stadium.

Squad

The roster was announced on May 16, 2018. On May 22nd, Harry Kane was named England's youngest World Cup captain. England is the only team to have players from their domestic league.

position	No.	player	society	International matches *	Länderspiel- gates *	Date of birth	debut	Last use	Games	Gates				World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	13	Jack Butland	Stoke City ↓	008th	00	03/10/1993	2012	07.06.2018
	01	Jordan Pickford	Everton FC	003	00	03/07/1994	2017	02.06.2018	7th
	23	Nick Pope	Burnley FC	001	00	04/19/1992	2018	07.06.2018
Defense	22nd	Trent Alexander-Arnold	Liverpool FC	001	00	07/10/1998	2018	07.06.2018	1
	15th	Gary Cahill	Chelsea FC P	060	05	December 19, 1985	2010	07.06.2018	1					2014	2	0
	17th	Fabian Delph	Manchester City M	011	00	11/21/1989	2014	07.06.2018	4th
	16	Phil Jones	Manchester United	025th	00	02/21/1992	2011	07.06.2018	2					2014	1	0
	06th	Harry Maguire	Leicester City	005	00	03/05/1993	2017	07.06.2018	7th	1	2
	03	Danny Rose	Tottenham Hotspur	018th	00	07/02/1990	2016	07.06.2018	5
	05	John Stones	Manchester City M	004th	00	05/28/1994	2014	07.06.2018	7th	2		1
	12	Kieran Trippier	Tottenham Hotspur	007th	00	09/19/1990	2017	07.06.2018	6th	1
	02	Kyle Walker	Manchester City M	035	00	May 28, 1990	2011	02.06.2018	5		2
	18th	Ashley Young	Manchester United	034	07th	07/09/1985	2007	02.06.2018	5
midfield	20th	Dele Alli	Tottenham Hotspur	025th	02	04/11/1996	2015	07.06.2018	5	1
	04th	Eric Dier	Tottenham Hotspur	026th	03	January 15, 1994	2015	02.06.2018	6th
	08th	Jordan Henderson	Liverpool FC	039	00	06/17/1990	2010	07.06.2018	5		1			2014	2	0
	07th	Jesse Lingard	Manchester United	012	01	12/15/1992	2016	07.06.2018	6th	1	1
	21st	Ruben Loftus-Cheek	Chelsea FC P	004th	00	01/23/1996	2017	07.06.2018	4th		1
	10	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City M	038	02	December 8, 1994	2012	02.06.2018	6th					2014	3	0
Storm	09	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	024	13	07/28/1993	2015	02.06.2018	6th	6th
	19th	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	019th	03	10/31/1997	2016	07.06.2018	6th
	11	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	022nd	07th	01/11/1987	2015	07.06.2018	4th
	14th	Danny Welbeck	Arsenal FC	039	16	11/26/1990	2011	07.06.2018	1					2014	2	0
Coaching staff	Trainer	Gareth Southgate		57	2	09/03/1970	2016							1998	2
Status of appearances and goals: June 7, 2018, after the game against Costa Rica
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ M = The club became champions of its country in the World Cup year, P = The club won the cup in its country in the World Cup year, ↓ = The club was relegated from the top division. ↑ a b c d As a player

Also named as standby: Lewis Cook (Bournemouth), Tom Heaton (Burnley), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Jake Livermore (West Brom), James Tarkowski (Burnley).

Finals

Group draw

Kaliningrad (VR) Nizhny Novgorod (VR) Volgograd (VR) Moscow (AF, HF, SP3) Samara (VF) St. Petersburg

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) for the English

For the draw of the qualification groups on December 1st, the English were assigned to pot 2 and could therefore be drawn into a group with defending champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, vice world champions Argentina or host Russia. England meet in Group G on Belgium , Tunisia and Panama . So far, the English senior team has played against Belgium 21 times, won 15 games, lost once (1936) and played five draws. They met twice at world championships and both games were extended: 1954 in the preliminary round (4: 4) and in 1990 in the round of 16 (1: 0). There have only been two games against Tunisia: In 1990 the two separated 1: 1 in a preparatory game for the World Cup, and in the preliminary round of the 1998 World Cup, the English won 2-0. Like the other two opponents, England have never played against Panama. As group winner or runner-up, the English would face the runner-up or winner of group H with Poland.

Group stage / group G matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group G

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	3	3	0	0	009: 200	+7	09
2.	England	3	2	0	1	008: 300	+5	06th
3.	Tunisia	3	1	0	2	005: 800	−3	03
4th	Panama	3	0	0	3	002:110	−9	00

Mon., June 18, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Volgograd
Tunisia	-	England	1: 2 (1: 1)	11 ', 90 + 1' Kane
Sun., June 24, 2018, 3 p.m. (2 p.m. CEST) in Nizhny Novgorod
England	-	Panama	6: 1 (5: 0)	8 ', 40' Stones , 22 '/ penalty, 45 + 1' / penalty, 62 ' Kane, 36' Lingard
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 8:00 p.m. (CEST) in Kaliningrad
England	-	Belgium	0: 1 (0: 0)

Games of the knockout round

Harry Kane before his converted penalty against Colombia

Round of 16

Tue., July 3, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Spartak Stadium)
Colombia	-	England	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 4 i. E.	57 ′ / penalty Kane

Quarter finals

Sat., July 7, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Samara (Kosmos-Arena)
Sweden	-	England	0: 2 (0: 1)	30 ′ Maguire , 59 ′ Alli

Semifinals

Wed., July 11, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Luschniki Olympic Stadium)
Croatia	-	England	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)	5 ′ Trippier

3rd place match

July 14, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg (Saint Petersburg Stadium)
Belgium	-	England	2: 0 (1: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exclusive investigation: England manager Sam Allardyce for sale. In: The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group, September 27, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ England coach fired after scandal. In: Sport1 . Sport1 Medien , September 28, 2016, accessed on September 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Jason Burt, Richard Amofa: Sam Allardyce loose job as England manager and may face Further disciplinary action from the FA. In: The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group, September 28, 2016, accessed September 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ One game or 68 days: Allardyce sacked as national coach. In: kicker online . Olympia-Verlag , September 27, 2016, accessed on September 29, 2016 . 
5. ^ Former defender signs four-year deal to lead Three Lions. In: thefa.com . November 30, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Rooney ends his career in the national team. ORF , August 23, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017 . 
7. ^ All of Ryan Bertrand's international matches
8. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
9. ↑ bbc.com: "England World Cup squad: Trent Alexander-Arnold in 23-man squad"
10. ↑ thefa.com: Harry Kane to captain England at 2018 World Cup