England starting XI vs Tunisia leaked: Lingard, Young set to start

Russia 2018: England starting XI vs Tunisia leaked | Team news

The three lions of England will be playing their first 2018 World cup game on Monday evening, but as usual, there will be reports and rumours on the possible line up prior to the match.

On Friday the Times released a likely starting line-up against Tunisia. The newspaper stated that:

The England manager will pick a bold, attacking line-up for the game on Monday evening.

The formation he used in practice yesterday at the Spartak Zelenogorsk stadium is designed to be brimming with pace and focuses on players who are comfortable on the ball.

The formation England will play is believed to be a 3-5-2 formation which looks more like a 5-3-1-1 on a closer look, Gareth Southgate will be giving nine players their World Cup debut as Tottenham and Man City will have the most representatives. They both have 3 players each in the leaked starting XI.

Here is the leaked XI:

Pickford; Stones, Maguire, Walker; Young, Henderson, Alli, Lingard, Trippier; Sterling, Kane