{"id":671460,"date":"2026-06-26T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671460"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:10:23","slug":"england-vs-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/26\/england-vs-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Panama: Latest Three Lions Team News and Predicted Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest Three Lions team news and their predicted lineup ahead of the England vs Panama third World Cup group stage game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With just one point separating the top three in the group, England must win if they are to finish top and get a more favourable draw in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s everything you need to know ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/18\/the-three-lions-victory\/\" target=\"_self\">What Was Said Following England&#8217;s Victory Against Croatia<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>England vs Panama: Latest Three Lions Team News and Predicted Lineup<\/h2>\n<p><b>Date:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Saturday, June 27, 2026<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Venue:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New York, New Jersey Stadium (MetLife Stadium)<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Kick-off:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 10:00 pm BST, 5:00 pm local<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Last meeting:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> England 6-1 Panama (2018 World Cup)<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Referee: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Abdulrahman Al Jassim<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Current odds:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"430\" height=\"335\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/live-odds.casinokings.com\/embed\/29494369\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Current Table<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f England \u00a04 points (+2 GD)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Ghana \u00a0 \u00a0 4 points (+1 GD)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7 Croatia \u00a0 \u00a03 points (-1 GD)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udde6 Panama \u00a00 points (-2 GD)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>England Team News<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB0IQVDV7E\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3000px; aspect-ratio: 3000\/2000;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8rywj8rnpo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Declan Rice and Reece James are doubts<\/a> for Thomas Tuchel ahead of this game. Both appeared to have suffered calf injuries, with Rice leaving the Ghana game with a strapping around his calf, and James was missing training on Thursday. Late decisions will be made on both, especially Rice, who also has a yellow card to his name and is at risk of being suspended should he receive another in the group stage<\/p>\n<p>Should England have already qualified for the knockout stages, Tuchel was expected to freshen up his team; however, with England still needing a result, changes are expected to be kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Rashford and Nico O&#8217;Reilly are pushing for starts, and should Rice and James be declared fit, they could be the only changes, with Anthony Gordon, who has had a poor first two games, and Djed Spence starting from the bench. Should England build a comfortable lead, then Tuchel will be tempted to replace certain players at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n<h3>England vs Panama: Three Lions Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pickford<br \/>\nJames<br \/>\nO&#8217;Reilly<br \/>\nGuehi<br \/>\nKonza<br \/>\nRice<br \/>\nAnderson<br \/>\nBellingham<br \/>\nMadueki<br \/>\nRashford<br \/>\nKane<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/22\/england-world-cup-squad-announced\/\" target=\"_self\">England&#8217;s World Cup Squad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of Imago\/DeFodi Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest Three Lions team news and their predicted lineup ahead of the England vs Panama third World Cup group stage game on Saturday. With just one point separating the top three in the group, England must win if they are to finish top and get a more favourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":671489,"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":[1828,161,30,9367,2132],"tags":[32736,32735,31871,32730,4245,2228,2199],"class_list":["post-671460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fixtures","category-international-football","category-news","category-predictions","category-world-cup","tag-england","tag-england-fixtures","tag-england-predicted-lineup","tag-england-predictions","tag-england-squad","tag-panama","tag-panama-national-team"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671460","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=671460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671512,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671460\/revisions\/671512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}