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England's second World Cup 2006 game is against Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday 15 June 2006 at Nuremberg, Germany at 5.00pm (BST - British Summer Time). Click here to see the World Cup screen chart and click here to see where England's games will be held on a map.

England beat Paraguay 1-0 with an unconvincing performance in their last match but only need one more victory to qualify for the second round.

Trinidad and Tobago are at the World Cup finals for the first time and have the smallest population of any of the countries at the World Cup 2006 with only 1.3 million people. In their first World Cup match they got an impressive 0-0 draw with Sweden with strong performances from a lot of the team, especially Dwight Yorke (midfielder) and Shaka Hislop (goalkeeper). Brent Sancho replaced an injured Marvin Andrews (knee) in central defence and would have been pleased with his performance.

After their success against Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago will probably keep the same 4-5-1 formation against England with only Stern John up front. Their right back Avery John will not be available after the red card he received in the last game so Cyd Gray is likely to move from left back to right back. Carlos Edwards will probably be given the right back role. Their team is likely to be:

                                                           Hislop

            Edwards                  Sancho                             Lawrence              Gray

       Whitley                   Birchall                Yorke                Theobald              Samuel

                                                          S John

England will have Wayne Rooney (recovering from a broken foot) on the bench. Eriksson said Rooney is now "match fit" but will not start this match and that he had yet to decide whether Rooney will come on as substitute or not. Michael Owen and Peter Crouch are likely to be England's two starting strikers as they did well when England beat Jamaica 6-0 recently.

Gary Neville has been ruled out of the match with a calf strain and so Jamie Carragher or Owen Hargreaves is likely to come in at right back for England.


 

                                                             

Sven Goran Eriksson is expected to keep the same 4-4-2 formation against Trinidad and Tobago..

The England starting line up for the match is likely to be:


 
                                                       Paul Robinson

 
  Jamie Carragher                    John Terry                 Rio Ferdinand                     Ashley Cole

  David Beckham                 Frank Lampard          Steven Gerrard                Joe Cole

                                            Michael Owen             Peter Crouch

 

                                                               


 

 

Please click here to see the full England squad and click here for the latest on Wayne Rooney's injury.