{"id":654811,"date":"2026-06-23T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:01:10","slug":"england-vs-ghana-live-score-commentary-analysis-from-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654811\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Ghana live: score, commentary, analysis from Fifa World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img alt=\"Paul Joyce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5a232bd0-a831-4bca-9580-5a3fb47cbe32.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-40 photo author__avatar author__avatar--paul-joyce\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p id=\"b20fe9c4-53c4-4b56-b2d0-b318f98e40d6\">A chunk of the opening 45 minutes was spent anticipating what England\u2019s assistant coach Anthony Barry would say during his half-time TV debrief.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cdf20276-f4d9-481f-a12b-fb2fcf0264b1\">Barry\u2019s withering critique of the display at the mid-point of the win over Croatia last week made for brilliant viewing. Here, he was more measured.<\/p>\n<p id=\"90a42e7a-2999-44bc-ab7f-2f7dc154966c\">\u201cOverall, it\u2019s been absolutely okay half, from our point of view,\u201d he said. \u201cAgain, we probably expected to be a difficult challenge, difficult opponent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"ccaa7c87-afe5-4547-ba73-83262bd85e0d\">\u201cThey defend deep, deep, deep, probably even deeper than we expected, ten, 12 metres deeper than the last two opponents that they played against.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"25d966da-fc65-470e-87a4-be5330fc84da\">\u201cThe spaces are really condensed between the lines and then they have this incredible speed that they can also cover the spaces, so it\u2019s been difficult to break them down, so the headline for us is probably patience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"312be276-1c3f-4f94-95a7-39a0635a7108\">\u201cPatience in the game, continue to attack with a stable base because Ghana are a team that have exceptional counterattack options, and we\u2019ve negated that so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"a00b8c46-b967-4196-b240-09eb4b482b30\">\u201cAnd overall, just stay with it with a team that\u2019s always been able to open the game up with a set piece, or with our boys on the bench, or the message is, patience, and just keep going.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chunk of the opening 45 minutes was spent anticipating what England\u2019s assistant coach Anthony Barry would say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654811","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=654811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}