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England are just a single game away from destiny. After beating Norway in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Cup, they now face Argentina in the semi-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n England haven\u2019t been in a World Cup final since 1966, when they won international football\u2019s top prize for the first and only time. Against the reigning champions, who have an in-form Lionel Messi amongst their ranks, they face a daunting challenge.<\/p>\n Who will turn out for the Three Lions in one of their biggest games in history? Here is our predicted England XI for England vs Argentina in the World Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve picked out players from clubs such as Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea to feature in this lineup \u2013 can you guess who they are?<\/p>\n We don\u2019t need to explain ourselves any further with this pick. Jordan Pickford is probably the best England goalkeeper since Gordon Banks \u2013 there is absolutely no way he\u2019ll be dropped for such an important game. <\/p>\n Reece James recently spoke on his comeback from injury on the Lions Den \u2013 he has worked hard to get himself back to full fitness and should be ready to go when England take on Argentina. <\/p>\n According to a report from TNT Sports, Ezri Konsa suffered cramp during the Norway game \u2013 as a result, John Stones may start in his place as a precaution. In truth, Stones played well against Norway. He might make it in on merit regardless.<\/p>\n Marc Guehi was an injury doubt before the Norway game, but nonetheless was able to see out the full 120 minutes. We don\u2019t see why he won\u2019t be able to do the same thing against Argentina. <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England are just a single game away from destiny. After beating Norway in the quarter-finals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17322","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\/17322","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=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GK: Jordan Pickford<\/h2>\n
RB: Reece James<\/h2>\n
CB: John Stones<\/h2>\n
CB: Marc Guehi<\/h2>\n