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Thomas Tuchel and his England team will be hoping that they can get rid of the errors which cost them in their first UEFA Nations League (UNL) game against Spain. There were some positives from the game, no less than scoring two and pushing the World Champions all the way, and England will look to build on that as they head to Prague.
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The Czech Republic, like England, lost their first game in the UNL and, like England again, will be looking to get back to winning ways, though a Czech win would be nothing less than an upset. Having not won any of their last four matches (3L, 1D), the Czechs are under some pressure to respond after a disappointing World Cup as well. Despite that, they will be buoyed by the fact that they haven’t lost back-to-back home games this decade after losing to Croatia at home on Friday.
Czech Republic vs England key information
• Date: Tuesday, 28 September
• Kick-off time: 19:45 BST
• Venue: Fortuna Arena, Prague
• Referee: Halil Umut Meler
• VAR: Fedayi San
• TV channels: ITV (UK)
• Odds: CZE (6/1) - DRAW (4/1) - ENG (2/5)
Czech Republic team news
The Czech Republic appear to have no new injury concerns after the game against Croatia. The squad is already missing Wolves Ladislav Krejci, Slavia Prague’s David Zima, Ivan Provod, and David Jurasek, plus Viktoria Plzen’s Denis Visinsky, all of whom went to the World Cup.
Predicted Czech Republic lineup vs England (4-2-3-1)
Coach: Santiago Denia
Hornicek, Slama, Chaloupek, Hranac, Coufal; Kral, Sadilek; Karabec, Sulc, Ambros; Hlozek.
England team news
Thomas Tuchel revealed that he didn’t play Lewis Hall against Spain after Hall missed some training sessions due to an injury scare. Tuchel did say that Hall will be back in contention for the trip to Prague.
The other notable omission from the team was regular No.1 Jordan Pickford, who lost his place to James Trafford. Tuchel said he plans to give Pickford and Trafford two games each over the four-match run of fixtures, meaning Pickford could come in for this game here.
Predicted England lineup vs Czech Republic (4-2-3-1)
Coach: Thomas Tuchel
Trafford; Alexander-Arnold, Konsa, Guehi, Hall; Anderson, Scott; Saka, Bellingham, Gordon; Kane.
Where to watch
England’s trip to the Czech Republic will be shown on ITV in the United Kingdom. The match will also be streamed on ITVX.
Head-to-head
England and the Czech Republic have met five times in their history, twice in friendlies and twice in Euros qualification and once in the Euros themselves. England have won three of those games, with the most recent meeting being in the rescheduled 2020 Euros, which England won 1-0.
Odds for Czech Republic vs England
England are favourites to win at bet365, coming in at 2/5 compared to the Czech’s at 6/1. A draw is at 4/1.
Odds correct at time of writing, subject to change.
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