{"id":26021,"date":"2018-11-16T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=26021"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:58:07","slug":"loftus-cheek-england-ready-to-avenge-world-cup-defeat-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/loftus-cheek-england-ready-to-avenge-world-cup-defeat-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Loftus-Cheek: England ready to avenge World Cup defeat against Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek said England are \u201cready to give Croatia a challenge\u201d in their Nations League clash this Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last time the two sides faced was in their World Cup semi-final in July, where Kieran Trippier\u2019s stunning free kick was trumped by goals from Perisic and Mandzukic.<\/p>\n<p>But Loftus-Cheek believes Sunday\u2019s game at Wembley will be different. He told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport?CMP=ILC-refresh\"><em>London Evening Standard<\/em><\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s not just showing to other people we can do it \u2014 more importantly, it is to show it to ourselves, as a team, that we can win against Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were unlucky in the World-Cup semi-final and when we played them last time in the Nations League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will look to play our best football \u2014 I felt we had a lot of chances to score in the last game against them. It will definitely be a good test for us and both sides will want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea midfielder came on as a second half substitute in England\u2019s 3-0 win against USA last night in Wayne Rooney\u2019s last England game.<\/p>\n<p>England manager Gareth Southgate rested many of his preferred starting eleven, and warned England can\u2019t afford to repeat the performance on Sunday despite the win.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12016\/11555411\/gareth-southgate-warns-england-will-lose-to-croatia-if-they-repeat-usa-performance\"><em>Sky Sports<\/em><\/a>: \u201cWe didn&#8217;t play with discipline, we were caught in transition and we were wide open. If we do that on Sunday, we will lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Charlie Bradley Subbing: Matthew Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek said England are \u201cready to give Croatia a challenge\u201d in their Nations League clash this Sunday. The last time the two sides faced was in their World Cup semi-final in July,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":26240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}