{"id":515728,"date":"2026-06-24T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:36:11","slug":"world-cup-2026-live-england-frustrated-by-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515728\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 LIVE: England frustrated by Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

England performance ‘a brutal reality check’published at 07:31 BST<\/p>\n

07:31 BST<\/p>\n

England 0-0 Ghana<\/p>\n

\"\"Phil McNulty<\/a>
BBC Sport chief football writer at Boston Stadium<\/p>\n

\"HarryImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Head coach Thomas Tuchel claimed England’s thrilling opening World Cup win against Croatia would have excited “fans in pubs”. The dismal follow-up against Ghana would have sobered them up instantly.<\/p>\n

The manner in which England dismantled Croatia raised expectation and excitement levels, but this was a brutal reality check as Ghana’s resilience, physicality and organisation built an insurmountable barrier.<\/p>\n

England are leading Group L and set to qualify for the last 32 – and Declan Rice echoed the post-match mood of “no panic” in the camp when he told BBC Sport: “We still have a great chance to top the group against Panama, so positivity all round.”<\/p>\n

Not quite all round given the Three Lions’ lack of creativity in the face of Ghana’s durability – but Tuchel’s side still remain in a healthy position.<\/p>\n

If the victory against Croatia made watching England fun, this was back to the grindstone where they were forced to do the dirty work, but could not break through.<\/p>\n

Read Phil McNulty’s analysis in full by clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England performance ‘a brutal reality check’published at 07:31 BST 07:31 BST England 0-0 Ghana Phil McNultyBBC Sport chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-515728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}