How to watch England vs Croatia, team news, predicted line-ups and more | OneFootball

England begin their 2026 World Cup campaign with a match against Croatia in Dallas.

The last time these two teams came up against each other in the World Cup was in the 2018 semi-finals. Croatia won 2-1 thanks to an extra time winner from Mario Mandzukic.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the clash

Kick-off time in the UK

9pm, Wednesday June 17

How to watch in the UK

TV channel: ITV1

Streaming: ITVX

Team news

England: Tino Livramento (out)

Croatia: N/A

Predicted line-ups

England (4-3-3): Pickford; James, Konsa, Stones, O’Reilly; Anderson, Rice, Bellingham; Gordon, Kane, Madueke

Croatia (4-3-3): Dominik Livakovic, Josip Stanisic, Martin Erlic, Marin Pongracic, Josko Gvardiol, Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Marco Pasalic, Andrej Kramaric, and Ivan Perisic

Recent form

England won both their warm up matches for the tournament, 1-0 against New Zealand and 3-0 against Costa Rica.

Croatia lost their first warm up fixture against Belgium 2-0, but bounced back to win against Slovenia.

What’s been said?

Thomas Tuchel says that managing at the World Cup is the pinnacle of his career.

“I’m grateful that I had the opportunity,” he said. ” I’m grateful that I had people who pushed me and supported me and helped me in my coaching career. I’m grateful to everyone who still helps me, because it’s clearly not a one-man show, so it’s always a team effort. 

“So, I’m just grateful to have the possibility to be head coach of England, to get the experience to coach in a World Cup. I know it comes with responsibility and I want to live up to this responsibility and push the team, prepare the team, support the players to their very best.

“Of course, we dream – I think we have a right to dream, but we don’t want to be delusional. We know that it comes with the responsibility, and the responsibility is on the effort. We want to put the effort in, and then we deserve the outcome.”