{"id":677117,"date":"2026-07-06T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677117\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:19:15","slug":"world-cup-2026-englands-reece-james-expected-to-return-for-norway-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677117\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England’s Reece James expected to return for Norway quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

England manager Thomas Tuchel expects Reece James to be available for the World Cup quarter-final against Norway on Saturday (22:00 BST).<\/p>\n

Tuchel’s right-back crisis intensified after Jarell Quansah’s red card in Sunday’s 3-2 win over Mexico,<\/a> meaning the Bayer Leverkusen defender is suspended for England’s next knockout tie in Miami.<\/p>\n

James is yet to return to full training having suffered a hamstring injury in the second group match against Ghana, and he has missed the games against Panama, DR Congo and Mexico.<\/p>\n

But there is emerging hope the 26-year-old can ease England’s problems at right-back by returning to full training this week.<\/p>\n

After Quansah’s red card in the 54th minute in Mexico City, Ezri Konsa – who has started all of England’s games at centre-back – finished as a right wing-back.<\/p>\n

Over five matches, James, Djed Spence, Konsa, John Stones, Quansah and midfielder Declan Rice have all appeared as right-sided defenders at various points, while, in the build-up to the tournament, Tino Livramento suffered a calf injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

Konsa and Spence remain options for Tuchel, but the expected availability of James will come as a welcome piece of news given the Chelsea captain is recognised as England’s first-choice right-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England manager Thomas Tuchel expects Reece James to be available for the World Cup quarter-final against Norway on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-677117","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677117","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=677117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}