{"id":4171,"date":"2026-06-19T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:12:01","slug":"declan-rice-england-midfielder-expected-to-be-available-for-ghana-world-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice: England midfielder expected to be available for Ghana World Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Declan Rice is expected to be available for England’s World Cup match against Ghana after suffering from lower back pain during the <\/b>win over Croatia.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The midfielder was substituted midway through the second half, raising concerns about his fitness.<\/p>\n

But it is understood the back issue is unlikely to prevent Rice from playing against Ghana in Boston on Tuesday (21:00).<\/p>\n

The complaint is one that the Arsenal midfielder, 27, has been carrying for a while and will require managing during the tournament.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, manager Thomas Tuchel said: “Declan had some unusual ball losses and I saw a bit of discomfort.<\/p>\n

“And then I asked him, and he pointed directly to his lower back, upper hamstring, that he feels the discomfort.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to take any risks, I hope it’s nothing more. Declan just reassured me at the end.<\/p>\n

“We will take care of it, and it’s nothing big to worry about.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Declan Rice is expected to be available for England’s World Cup match against Ghana after suffering from lower back pain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}