{"id":660284,"date":"2025-10-09T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660284"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:35:40","slug":"england-vs-wales-confirmed-lineups-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/09\/england-vs-wales-confirmed-lineups-october\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Wales Confirmed Lineups for October 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the England vs Wales confirmed lineups for the international friendly. With a competitive fixture coming up, this allows Thomas Tuchel a chance to further experiment with his lineup as he continues to get familiar with his squad and the best ways to utilise them. Their opponents have a key clash coming up against Belgium, so it will be interesting to see how their coach approaches this one.<\/p>\n<h2>England vs Wales Confirmed Lineups for International Friendly<\/h2>\n<h3>England Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan Pickford starts in goal with a back line of Ezri Konsa, John Stones, Djed Spence, and Marc Guehi. Elliot Anderson partners Declan Rice in midfield with Bukayo Saka, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins, and Anthony Gordon the front four.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Relatively strong lineup from Tuchel with the core of Guehi, Konsa, Rice, Anderson, Gordon, Rogers continuing. There&#8217;s some defensive reinforcements with Harry Kane missing out for Watkins to earn his stripes.<\/p>\n<h3>Wales Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Karl Darlow starts in goal with Neco Williams, Ben Davies, Joe Rodon, Ethan Ampadu, David Brooks, Harry Wilson, Liam Cullen, Brennan Johnson, Jay Dasilva, and Kieffer Moore.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>A few regulars with some new faces mixed in. Williams, Davies, Wilson, and Brooks retain their places from the defeat to Canada with the rest coming in.<\/p>\n<h3>Announced England Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean Henderson<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Pickford<\/li>\n<li>James Trafford<\/li>\n<li>Dan Burn<\/li>\n<li>Marc Guehi<\/li>\n<li>Ezri Konsa<\/li>\n<li>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/li>\n<li>Nico O&#8217;Reilly<\/li>\n<li>Jarell Quansay<\/li>\n<li>Djed Spence<\/li>\n<li>John Stones<\/li>\n<li>Elliot Anderson<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Gibbs-White<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Henderson<\/li>\n<li>Ruben Loftus-Cheek<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Jardon Bowen<\/li>\n<li>Eberechi Eze<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Harry Kane<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Rashford<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Watkins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Wales Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Karl Darlow<\/li>\n<li>Tom King<\/li>\n<li>Jay Dasilva<\/li>\n<li>Ben Cabango<\/li>\n<li>Dylan Lawloe<\/li>\n<li>Ronan Kpakio<\/li>\n<li>Josh Sheehan<\/li>\n<li>Liam Cullen<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Ramsey<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Broadhead<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Koumas<\/li>\n<li>Kieffer Moore<\/li>\n<li>Dan James<\/li>\n<li>Adam Davies<\/li>\n<li>Ben Davies<\/li>\n<li>Chris Mepham<\/li>\n<li>Joe Rodon<\/li>\n<li>Neco Williams<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Ampadu<\/li>\n<li>Jordan James<\/li>\n<li>Joel Colwill<\/li>\n<li>Harry Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Sorba Thomas<\/li>\n<li>Mark Harris<\/li>\n<li>Brennan Johnson<\/li>\n<li>David Brooks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Per FAW <a href=\"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/news\/cymru-squad-england-belgium-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the England vs Wales confirmed lineups. There will be news as well as dicsussions on who started, who misses out, and what tactical alterations we could see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652932\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-652932 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"England vs Wales confirmed lineups- Thomas Tuchel pictured at training\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/imago1060053638-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGO \/ PPAUK<br \/>England Mens Training, St George s Park, 18th March 2025 Thomas Tuchel of England during the England Mens Training at St George\u00d5s Park, Burton On Trent on 18th March 2025 &#8211; Burton Upon Trent St George s Park Staffordshire England Copyright: xGeorgexWass\/PPAUKx PPA-174670<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the England vs Wales confirmed lineups for the international friendly. With a competitive fixture coming up, this allows Thomas Tuchel a chance to further experiment with his lineup as he continues to get familiar with his squad and the best ways to utilise them. Their opponents have a key clash coming up against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":652932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1831,161,30],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-660284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-international-football","category-news","tag-wales"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660345,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660284\/revisions\/660345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}