Andorra vs England live: Team news and line-ups from World Cup qualifier

Bukayo Saka has been left out of today’s squad, after Tuchel revealed he was suffering with a knock on Friday.

“It’s nice to see that he’s back because he wanted to be back, and you straight away see when he comes in that he is comfortable to be with the squad, he knows what it takes to be a national player,” the England boss said.

“He came into camp with a little bit of discomfort from the last match against Southampton, so we took care of him and treated him individually until (Friday) basically.

“It was the first training session that he started and finished with the group. (Thursday), he started with the group but did not finish with the group, so let’s see.

On England’s next game, against Senegal on Tuesday, he said, “The decision has not been taken, but he will be available for the Senegal match, and he plays a major role in our thoughts of how to build a competitive team.”

Andorra XI: Alvarez, Llovera, Garcia, R. Fernandez, Babot, Rodrigo, San Nicolas, Cervos, Guillen, Olivera, Borra

Substitutes: Gomes, Pires, Da Cunha, Vales, Rebes, Alexandre Martinez, Vales, Lopez, De Las Heras, Rubio, Joao Da Silva, Marc Garcia

As well as experimental, Tuchel has picked an attacking side, as you’d expect with such a wealth of attacking talent in the squad and England expected to have most possession today.

There are five changes from England’s last match, a 3-0 win over Latvia in March.

Dan Burn, Jordan Henderson, Curtis Jones, Noni Madueke and Cole Palmer come into the starting XI, with Marc Guehi (out with an eye injury), Myles Lewis-Skelly (benched), Declan Rice (benched), Jarrod Bowen and Marcus Rashford dropping out.

Something of an experimental line-up by Tuchel here. Not a single right-back in this squad is playing at right-back, with Reece James instead starting at left-back and Curtis Jones on the opposite side.

Jordan Henderson, who Tuchel has repeatedly backed as a leader, is rewarded with a starting spot in midfield, his first start since November 2023 against Malta. Declan Rice is benched – presumably with one eye on the Senegal game next week.

England XI: Jordan Pickford, Reece James, Ezri Konsa, Jordan Henderson, Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Dan Burn, Curtis Jones, Morgan Rogers, Noni Madueke, Cole Palmer


Substitutes: Kyle Walker, Declan Rice, Levi Colwill, Morgan Gibbs-White, Anthony Gordon, Dean Henderson, Ivan Toney, Eberechi Eze, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Myles Lewis-Skelly, James Trafford, Trevoh Chalobah

Back in March our Chief Football Writer, Miguel Delaney, wrote about how the players reacted to Thomas Tuchel’s first England camp and what the differences were compared to their time playing under Gareth Southgate.

Here’s a reminder of how things went:

One less surprising omission from Tuchel’s squad is Jack Grealish, who has fallen from favour at both club and country. Richard Jolly analyses his future:

Sometimes a career can be measured by what happens over summers. In 2021, Jack Grealish became the most expensive Englishman in history, the Premier League’s record signing, the £100m man. In 2023, he was the treble winner whose celebrations in Ibiza felt the stuff of legend. In 2024, he was, to his surprise, omitted from England’s European Championships squad. In 2025, it would be rather less of a shock if he is excluded from Manchester City’s Club World Cup squad.

Limited training sessions, a reliance on club coaches, and preparing for differing conditions all concern the England boss ahead of the World Cup qualifier with Andorra, as Miguel Delaney reports:

Earlier this spring, Thomas Tuchel said the June international window does not make sense for national team managers due to the drastically different schedules of squad members, with this year’s window complicated by potential headaches over the expanded Club World Cup.

The England boss called for Fifa to “align the calendar” for “the better of the players”, but it is the governing body’s new competition that is going to increase the tension around the window.

Tuchel pointed out that he will be one of many coaches forced to deal with a squad made up of some players just in from European club finals, and others who have been off for weeks, with some then immediately having to jet off to America for a month-long tournament.

One of the issues with keeping under-21 players out of the senior England squad, so they’re available for the under-21 squad, is that some of those players won’t actually be available for international duty.

New Chelsea signing Liam Delap is the biggest example of this, having been left out of the England Under-21 squad for this summer’s European Championships with the striker set to be involved in the Club World Cup.