{"id":5922,"date":"2026-06-27T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:07:03","slug":"world-cup-2026-scouting-panama-what-england-can-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Scouting Panama &#8211; what England can expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During their first two games, Panama have taken a dynamic approach depending on the phase of play the game is in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From opposition goal-kicks, Panama have stepped up to press aggressively in a 4-4-2 shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the opponents have quality on the ball and find themselves in possession higher up the pitch, Panama&#8217;s high press falls into a mid-block, and they move from a 4-4-2 into a 5-3-2. Their focus is on making it hard for teams to play through them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Croatia, in particular, grew into the game, Panama took an even more defensive approach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their 5-3-2 became a 5-4-1, a shape they adopted with a deeper defensive line for large parts of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So what does this mean for England?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their first two games, Panama have taken a dynamic approach depending on the phase of play the game is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5922","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\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}