Date: Saturday 6th July, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm
Stadium Merkur Spiel-Arena
Referee Daniele Orsator (Italy)
Goal Scorer:
England
Insult was added to injury for England centre-back Marc Guehi in the last-16 win over Slovakia, as in addition to hurting his shoulder while fruitlessly trying to stop Schranz from scoring, the Crystal Palace man picked up the yellow card that rules him out of this quarter-final.
With Guehi out of contention and England struggling for attacking inspiration with their 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 setup, Southgate is reportedly considering a change to a three-man defence for Saturday, where Ezri Konsa is the favourite to step in for his banned teammate.
Despite returning to full training before the knockouts began, Luke Shaw is yet to earn any minutes for England at the Euros and should not be thrown back into the first XI after almost five months out, so Kieran Trippier and Bukayo Saka may act as Southgate's wing-backs.
There were fears that Jude Bellingham could have been banned for the weekend afer a crotch-grabbing celebration in the direction of the Slovakia bench, but he has only been handed a suspended ban and is therefore fine to line up from the off here.
England possible starting lineup:
Pickford; Walker, Konsa, Stones; Trippier, Bellingham, Rice, Foden, Saka; Kane, Toney
Switzerland
England vs. Switzerland also means Declan Rice vs. Granit Xhaka as a current and former Arsenal midfielder collide, and the latter is thought to be winning his race to be fit for the weekend despite a brief scare over an adductor injury; scans showed that there was nothing seriously wrong with him.
Yakin is therefore expected to have a clean bill of health and faces the best kind of selection predicament on the right, where Silvan Widmer returns from a one-game suspension after Dan Ndoye excelled in his place in the win over Italy.
One solution for Yakin would be to move Ndoye into the front three at the expense of Fabian Rieder and recall Widmer to his usual right wing-back position, where a fascinating battle with Saka could materialise.
Yakin's only fitness concern relates to attacker Noah Okafor, who is struggling with some discomfort but was never going to start anyway.
Switzerland possible starting lineup:
Sommer; Schar, Rodriguez, Akanji; Widmer, Xhaka, Freuler, Aebischer; Ndoye, Vargas; Embolo
Prediction: England 1-2 Switzerland
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