Haaland and Sørloth up top — Stones and Guéhi's night

Norway line up 4-3-3, and the menace is stacked through the middle: Erling Haaland and Alexander Sørloth together, Andreas Schjelderup pinned wide, Martin Ødegaard stitching passes in behind. Haaland struck twice in the most recent outing, a 2-1 win over Brazil. That is the weight dropped onto John Stones and Marc Guéhi.

England reply with a 4-2-3-1. Harry Kane leads the line alone, Jude Bellingham drifts off him, Declan Rice sits and shields the back four. The visitors have won four of their last five, drawing the odd one out 0-0 with Ghana. Norway keep pace almost step for step — four victories from five, their only slip a 1-4 defeat to France.

Both camps have been living in wide-open, high-scoring affairs of late, recent matches averaging well over 2.5 goals. Bookmakers make England the favourites and Norway the outsiders. My read: England shade it — but hand Haaland one clean sight of goal and the hosts have a way back.