{"id":754470,"date":"2026-07-10T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:41:11","slug":"world-cup-2026-england-v-norway-guehi-injury-team-news-haaland-on-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754470\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England v Norway – Guehi injury, team news & Haaland on pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway’s Haaland says pressure is all on Englandpublished at 09:57 BST<\/p>\n

09:57 BST<\/p>\n

Norway v England (Sat, 22:00 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Alex Brotherton
BBC Sport journalist<\/p>\n

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

Norway striker Erling Haaland says all the pressure is on England leading into their World Cup quarter-final meeting on Saturday – and with a smile, called on the media to put as much pressure on Thomas Tuchel’s side as possible.<\/p>\n

Norway had not competed at a World Cup since 1998, but have reached the final eight for the first time after finishing second in Group I before beating Ivory Coast and Brazil in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n

England have reached at least the quarter-finals in the past three men’s World Cups, but have not made the final since winning the competition in 1966.<\/p>\n

When asked is all the pressure is on England, Manchester City striker Haaland said: “Yes, definitely.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s some clear favourites out there, England’s one of them.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to journalists, he added: “I think all of you should put every single [bit of] pressure on the English lads.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, they [England fans] should be confident of progressing, definitely. It’s England.”<\/p>\n

“I didn’t expect it. To be honest, to be in the quarter-finals with Norway in the World Cup is quite surprising even for me,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Playing against Brazil was kind of crazy for us Norwegians and to win against Brazil and then go and play England in the quarter-finals in the World Cup in the USA is quite special.<\/p>\n

“It’s difficult to take everything in because you need to kind of just play the game like it’s a training session.<\/p>\n

“I think if you watch the scenes back in Norway, this is not normal for Norway to be, so it’s super special.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway’s Haaland says pressure is all on Englandpublished at 09:57 BST 09:57 BST Norway v England (Sat, 22:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-754470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}