England’s place in the knockout stages of the World Cup has been confirmed before they face Panama in their final group game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Three Lions sit on four points after two games – meaning they are at least guaranteed one of the eight third-placed qualification spots.<\/p>\n
Four other teams sit on four points – Sweden, Ecuador, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Paraguay – with four groups, including England’s still to wrap up.<\/p>\n
Uruguay’s defeat by Spain on Saturday was the result that confirmed the Three Lions’ place in the last 32. <\/p>\n
England made a winning start to the tournament by beating Croatia 4-2, before being held to a goalless draw by Ghana on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tuchel has already confirmed Reece James will miss the final group fixture through injury, while Declan Rice sat out of Thursday’s training session.<\/p>\n
James, 26, suffered a hamstring issue in the goalless draw with Ghana on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Rice, meanwhile, who left Boston Stadium on Tuesday with strapping on his left calf, was also absent from Thursday’s session at England’s training base in Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s place in the knockout stages of the World Cup has been confirmed before they face Panama in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-764057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}