{"id":670538,"date":"2026-06-06T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=670538"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:04:26","slug":"england-vs-new-zealand-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/06\/england-vs-new-zealand-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs New Zealand: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups ahead of the England vs New Zealand friendly game today. Kickoff: 9:00 pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions take on the lowest-ranked country at this year&#8217;s World Cup, New Zealand, at the <span>Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. This is England&#8217;s first of two warm-up games ahead of the tournament, while the All Whites will be looking for improvement following their first game, a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Haiti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is the latest team news and confirmed lineups for England vs New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/22\/england-world-cup-squad-announced\/\" target=\"_self\">England World Cup Squad Announced\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>England vs New Zealand: Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>England Team News<\/h3>\n<p>England head coach Thomas Tuchel has a fully fit squad to select from. However, Declan Rice<span>, Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze, and Noni Madueke will not feature after being given extra time off due to their recent appearance for Arsenal in the Champions League Final.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tuchel has also hinted that he may field two different teams in this game to give everyone a chance and the same amount of minutes. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c87q7q45gp2o\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said:<\/a> &#8220;The plan is to play 45 minutes with two complete teams, to expose everyone to the same amount of minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then we can continue for the next three days with the same load of training. That is the plan, and at the moment we are sticking to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>New Zealand Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Ryan Thomas will miss the game, and Joe Bell is a doubt. Both have leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p>All Whites head coach <span>Darren Bazeley, an Englishman who played for Watford, Wolves, and Walsall, says his team is determined to do something special at this World Cup. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7326148\/2026\/06\/06\/darren-bazeley-new-zealand-world-cup-england\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: \u00a0<\/span>\u201cThe challenge for us is to go on, to keep progressing. It\u2019s not going to be easy, but we want to get into those exciting knockout games and see where that leads us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been really lucky. I\u2019ve been to six World Cups already, two Olympics, and a Confederations Cup, and football\u2019s been very generous to me after my playing career. I\u2019m super grateful for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow all of our players are determined to go to the World Cup, create history, and do something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>England Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pickford<\/p>\n<p>Stones<\/p>\n<p>Guehi<\/p>\n<p>Kane<\/p>\n<p>Rashford<\/p>\n<p>J.Henderson<\/p>\n<p>Mainoo<\/p>\n<p>Rogers<\/p>\n<p>Watkins<\/p>\n<p>Spence<\/p>\n<p>Quansah<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Konza, O&#8217;Reilly, Anderson, Bellingham, Livramento, D.Henderson, Burn, Toney, Trafford, James, Scott, King, Nwaneri, Rio<\/p>\n<h3>New Zealand Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Crocombe<\/p>\n<p>Payne<\/p>\n<p>Boxall<\/p>\n<p>Bell<\/p>\n<p>Garbett<\/p>\n<p>Stamenic<\/p>\n<p>Wood<\/p>\n<p>Singh<\/p>\n<p>Just<\/p>\n<p>Cacace<\/p>\n<p>Surman<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Paulsen, Woud, Barbarouses, Bayliss, Bindon, De Vries, Elliot, McCowatt, Old, Pijnaker, Randall, Rufer, Smith, Waine<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of Imago\/Depositphotos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups ahead of the England vs New Zealand friendly game today. Kickoff: 9:00 pm GMT. The Three Lions take on the lowest-ranked country at this year&#8217;s World Cup, New Zealand, at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. This is England&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":670539,"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":[1828,161,30,1831,2132],"tags":[32736,1160],"class_list":["post-670538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fixtures","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup","tag-england","tag-new-zealand"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670538","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670551,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670538\/revisions\/670551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}