{"id":267617,"date":"2025-11-17T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:31:09","slug":"england-reaction-who-makes-your-world-cup-squad-after-perfect-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267617\/","title":{"rendered":"England reaction: Who makes your World Cup squad after perfect qualifiers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bellingham or Rogers?published at 09:04 GMT<\/p>\n

09:04 GMT<\/p>\n

Albania 0-2 England<\/p>\n

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

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

The rivalry between childhood friends Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers for England’s number 10 jersey provides an intriguing sub-plot to Tuchel’s World Cup build-up.<\/p>\n

Tuchel stresses the battle can remain friendly, although it has almost been stoked and encouraged by the German, so keen is he to create edge and competition in his squad.<\/p>\n

Along with Declan Rice, Rogers is the only other England player to feature in all 10 games under Tuchel.<\/p>\n

Rogers took his chance impressively when Bellingham was absent after shoulder surgery, then Tuchel kept faith with Aston Villa’s 23-year old after he decided against giving one of the global superstars in England’s squad an instant recall.<\/p>\n

After a 25-minute cameo as a substitute against Serbia at Wembley, Bellingham started in Tirana, delivering a bit of everything that makes him such a passionate point of discussion.<\/p>\n

Bellingham showed his range of passing, made trademark driving runs, almost scored in the second half \u2013 but also demonstrated petulance when he was shown a yellow card for a foul committed after he lost possession, then looked unhappy at being substituted, which Tuchel said he will review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bellingham or Rogers?published at 09:04 GMT 09:04 GMT Albania 0-2 England Phil McNultyBBC Sport chief football writer Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-267617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}