{"id":16273,"date":"2026-07-11T00:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16273"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:10:37","slug":"england-missing-up-to-five-players-for-norway-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16273","title":{"rendered":"England missing up to five players for Norway clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>England could be missing up to five players for Saturday\u2019s clash with Norway in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions advanced to the last eight of the competition with a dramatic 3-2 win over Mexico at the Azteca in the round of 16 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>That has set up a meeting with Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard in Miami this Saturday, with a place in the semi-finals on the line.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>England missing up to five players for Norway clash<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>England, however, could be without a number of key players due to illness and injury, disrupting the team\u2019s preparation for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Two men who will definitely play no part against Norway are Jarell Quansah and Jordan Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool defender Quansah is serving a two-match ban after receiving a red card against Mexico in the last round, while Brentford midfielder Henderson is ruled out with an arm injury he picked up in the post-match celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Declan Rice has reportedly missed two days of training with an illness, according to The Times. The Arsenal star has been kept away from the rest of the squad as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Guehi has also sat out the past two days of training due to a \u201cslight hamstring injury\u201d, though Tuchel is \u201chopeful\u201d that both the Manchester City defender and Rice will be available for selection.<\/p>\n<p>Reece James did not train with the squad on Wednesday and remains a doubt to face Norway. The Chelsea right-back has been sidelined by a hamstring injury he picked up during the goalless draw with Ghana in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Jude Bellingham, Rice and Guehi are all on yellow cards and at risk of missing the next if they get a booking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 Ranking the World Cup favourites as we reach quarter-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013 Five of the best World Cup quarter-final clashes<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England could be missing up to five players for Saturday\u2019s clash with Norway in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}