{"id":659197,"date":"2026-06-26T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:10:12","slug":"world-cup-2026-englands-current-last-32-opponents-declan-rice-reece-james-update-eze-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659197\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England&#8217;s current last 32 opponents, Declan Rice, Reece James update &#038; Eze quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Spain are pretty similar to the team we faced in the final&#8217;published at 11:43 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">England v Panama (Sat, 22:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/187cd1e9-5c1a-458a-9084-88147a45337d.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>England<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on the other teams at the World Cup and who he&#8217;s enjoyed watching, Eze said: &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of good teams in the tournament. There&#8217;s so many games, there&#8217;s a lot of big performances going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching Ivory Coast, they&#8217;ve been incredibly strong and positive which has been good to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Spain I&#8217;d say they are pretty similar to the team that we faced in the final. They manage the ball really well, they look after the ball, and they have really strong effective players in attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I guess that&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ll come to and potentially face, but very focused on what we&#8217;re doing in the group and the route to get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Players of England look dejected following the Euro final defeat\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3aa43a41-6a46-4e23-a2d3-1232e112a780.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Spain are pretty similar to the team we faced in the final&#8217;published at 11:43 BST 11:43 BST England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659197","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\/659197","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=659197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}