Our prediction for this match:
England
Match Time & Date:
07/06/2024
20:45
Prediction: 3-0
Iceland
Buoyed by a 3-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, England will look to give fans yet another reason to celebrate when they face Iceland at Wembley Stadium. Gareth Southgate rested almost entire starting XI against the Balkan Dragons, but the likes of Harry Kane, James Maddison, and Declan Rice should start this time out.
The Icelanders, on the other hand, aim to recover from a 2-1 loss to Ukraine, but they will have a mountain to climb in London. As Gareth Southgate should count on key players in Friday’s friendly, we predict that the visitors are going to return home with their hands empty. A man to keep an eye on in the away team will be Hakon Arnar Haraldsson, who played an important role in Lille in the last Ligue 1 campaign. Captain Johann Berg Gudmundsson of Burnley made the cut as well.
Highlighted Player (Harry Kane):
Widely regarded as one of England’s best strikers at the moment, Harry Kane enjoyed a meteoric rise at Tottenham Hotspur, scoring 21 Premier League goals during the 2014/2015 campaign to be voted PFA Young Player of the Year.
The highly rated striker went on to surpass that achievement the following season as he helped Tottenham Hotspur mount a serious title challenge for the first time in club’s recent history and he made seamless transition to international football. Kane scored four goals in his first ten appearances for England to prove he was here to stay and at the same time established himself as a first choice striker in Roy Hodgson’s squad ahead of the Euro 2016 finals.
Kane is a modern striker, who is extremely dangerous in the opposition box, but it was some outstanding goals from distance as well as link-up play with teammates that earned him an excellent reputation in world football. Kane is expected to lead both Tottenham and England in years to come, that is if he can resist the lure of top European clubs that continue to cast admiring glances his way.
Highlighted Team (Iceland):
Iceland had little to no success during the first 60 years of entering the FIFA competitions, failing to qualify to a single major tournament in that period, but the team then went on to make tremendous progress at the start of the 21st century.
The Nordic side narrowly missed out on a place at the 2014 World Cup, losing in the play-off to Croatia, but they then enjoyed a thoroughly impressive qualifying campaign to reach the Euro 2016, taking 20 points from 10 matches to leave Turkey and Netherlands trailing in their wake.
As a result, the generation featuring players like Gylfi Sigurdsson, Aron Gunnarsson, Kolbeinn Sigthorsson and Emil Hallfredsson will go down as one of the most successful in the national team history and it could be quite some time before another team repeat their success. Even if he was only used as a bit-part player during the Euro 2016 qualifiers, Eidur Gudjohnsen has got to be mentioned as the first Icelandic footballer to have played for top European sides.
Chelsea 
Aston Villa 
Manchester United 
Everton
Tottenham
Fulham
Real Madrid 
Getafe
Liverpool
Man City 
Lecce 
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