The anticipation would be growing in England after that first game, with a great win over their biggest Group Stage opponent, playing well and Harry Kane looking invincible. There’s so much going right, you think that something bad is going to happen around the corner. Not just yet though, as England should be able to handle the opposition in this England vs Ghana Group L game and Panama after that. England are good at qualifying, just not winning. Talking of those two, they played each other in the other opening game, which many have said was the worst game of the opening round. That might be harsh, but even if it was, Ghana still got the three points, a valuable commodity in the Group Stage, as it will probably be enough to move through to the knockout stage.
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STATS SUMMARY
RATINGS
The Gurgler’s in-house Ratings system chooses the winner. Using H2H history, World Cup performance history, World Cup qualifying, the last four years of international games, performance against the confederation, and current effort at this World Cup.
| England | 58.7% | Ghana | 41.3% |
Comfortable enough for England, like most Group Stages.
BARELY INTERESTING STATS
The only game between these sides has ended in a draw.
England have started a World Cup with two straight wins only three times.
Ghana have won consecutive World Cup games only once, in the 2006.
England’s are unbeaten v African teams at the World Cup with an overall record of W5 D3.
Ghana’s record v European teams at the World Cup is W2 D1 L4, but they haven’t won any of their last four (D1 L3)
England had the second most shots on target in the first round of games with 11. Ghana had two v Panama.
MATCH PREDICTION
England 3 Ghana 0
