{"id":783232,"date":"2026-09-26T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783232\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:42:08","slug":"england-team-news-rio-ngumoha-not-in-squad-to-face-spain-in-nations-league-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783232\/","title":{"rendered":"England team news: Rio Ngumoha not in squad to face Spain in Nations League opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was unexpectedly handed his debut in a 1-0 friendly win against New Zealand, impressing in a second-half cameo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckg7nj63xyvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">becoming the fifth youngest player<\/a> to represent the Three Lions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ngumoha has enjoyed a rapid rise since becoming the youngest player in Liverpool&#8217;s history to start a first-team match when he made his debut as a 16-year-old in the FA Cup against Accrington Stanley during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then marked his Premier League debut by scoring a stunning late winner in the Reds&#8217; 3-2 win at Newcastle last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has made three league appearances for Andoni Iraola&#8217;s Liverpool this season but only one of them has come as a starter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was unexpectedly handed his debut in a 1-0 friendly win against New Zealand, impressing in a second-half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783232","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\/783232","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=783232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}