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England and Argentina are set up for a clash of the titans in the 2026 World Cup semi-finals after they made it beyond Norway and Switzerland, respectively. But which of them has the better players at their disposal?<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019ve put together a combined XI for both the Three Lions and La Albiceleste in this piece. Each of the two outfits contain some of the best players in the world, but which team will occupy the most positions?<\/p>\n Players from teams such as Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United will all feature in this combined XI \u2013 can you guess who they are?<\/p>\n Picking between Jordan Pickford and Emi Martinez is about as tough as it gets. We feel Pickford is in slightly better form, so we\u2019ve sided with the Everton man, but this one really could go either way.<\/p>\n Reece James has struggled with injuries at the World Cup thus far. Nevertheless, when fully fit, he is a clear winner in the battle between he and Nahuel Molina. <\/p>\n Some might disagree with this pick, but Lisandro Martinez is a nightmare to play against for any centre-forward. A master of the dark arts, he sneaks into the team on account of Ezri Konsa\u2019s shaky form.<\/p>\n This one is pretty clear cut. Marc Guehi is one of the best defenders in the world \u2013 after Cristian Romero\u2019s woeful season at Tottenham, he isn\u2019t going to beat out the Manchester City star in a head-to-head comparison.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England and Argentina are set up for a clash of the titans in the 2026…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16925","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\/16925","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=16925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GK: Jordan Pickford<\/h2>\n
RB: Reece James<\/h2>\n
CB: Lisandro Martinez<\/h2>\n
CB: Marc Guehi<\/h2>\n