{"id":671806,"date":"2026-07-01T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671806"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:07:36","slug":"england-vs-dr-congo-three-lions-predicted-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/01\/england-vs-dr-congo-three-lions-predicted-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs DR Congo: Three Lions Predicted Lineup and Latest Team News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the England vs DR Congo last 32 World Cup clash, Last Word on Football brings you the Three Lions predicted lineup and latest team news. In what will be an historic game (they have never faced each other), a place in the last 16 of the 2026 World Cup is at stake. England are clear favourites to progress, but will need to be wary against a team with nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/29\/2026-world-cup-round-of-32-predictions-england-vs-dr-congo\/\" target=\"_self\">Round of 36 Predictions, Including England vs DR Congo<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Three Lions Predicted Lineup and Latest Team News Ahead of First-Ever Game Against DR Congo<\/h2>\n<h3><b>Date:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wednesday, July 1st, 2026<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Venue:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Atlanta Stadium (<span>Mercedes-Benz Stadium)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Kick-off:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 17:00 GMT, 12 pm local<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Last meeting:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is the first-ever meeting between the two teams\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Referee: <\/b>Adham Makhadmeh<br \/>\n<b>Current odds:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"430\" height=\"335\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/live-odds.casinokings.com\/embed\/30159116\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nEngland Team News<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"c78749ece7fd074ea5dc1889e7c53f0f\" image-id=\"esmefDaNv11H\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4283px; aspect-ratio: 4283\/2856;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p>Three Lions boss Thomas Tuchel has a headache to deal with at right back. At present, England have no fit right-backs with Reece James and Jarell <span>Quansah expected to be missing and Tino Livramento returning home on the eve of the tournament. Djed Spence, who is in the squad as a left-back, is expected to play, but Tuchel could also move Ezri Konsa and bring back John Stones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/england-xi-vs-dr-congo-predicted-lineup-confirmed-team-news-injury-latest-world-cup-2026-b1288073.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuchel said<\/a>: \u201cNaturally, of course [I am worried about the right-back situation]. We have another injury in the position. It will be a tight race for Reece James and a tight race for Jarell Quansah, but it is our job to find solutions and we will do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Declan Rice will return to the starting eleven, and there could also be a place for his Arsenal teammate Bukayo Saka, who is pushing for a return to the team. \u00a0Jude Bellingham will return to his normal number 10 role, with Marcus Rashford likely to keep his place ahead of Anthony Gordon.<\/p>\n<h3>England vs DR Congo: Three Lions Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pickford<br \/>\nSpence<br \/>\nKonza<br \/>\nGuehi<br \/>\nO\u2019Reilly<br \/>\nAnderson<br \/>\nRice<br \/>\nSaka<br \/>\nBellingham<br \/>\nRashford<br \/>\nKane<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of Imago\/DeFodi Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the England vs DR Congo last 32 World Cup clash, Last Word on Football brings you the Three Lions predicted lineup and latest team news. In what will be an historic game (they have never faced each other), a place in the last 16 of the 2026 World Cup is at stake. England [&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":[31820,1828,1830,161,30,9367,2132],"tags":[7220,32736,32735,31871,4245],"class_list":["post-671806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","category-fixtures","category-injuries","category-international-football","category-news","category-predictions","category-world-cup","tag-dr-congo","tag-england","tag-england-fixtures","tag-england-predicted-lineup","tag-england-squad"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671806","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=671806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671811,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671806\/revisions\/671811"}],"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=671806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}