英格兰队的托马斯·图切尔时代终于从周五晚上主场对阵阿尔巴尼亚队的世界杯预选赛开始，三狮军团应该挺身而出。
在加雷斯·索斯盖特（Gareth Southgate）的带领下，一支在这位前教练决定带着年轻人参加欧洲杯之前就已经稳定下来的球队现在看到了几名老后卫的回归。被遗忘的球员乔丹·亨德森、里斯·詹姆斯和马库斯·拉什福德重新获得青睐，而丹·伯恩的选择表明图切尔希望利用英格兰队在对阵阿尔巴尼亚队时的身体特征。
詹姆斯协助哈里·马奎尔的揭幕战，亨德森也在2021年温布利主场以5比0战胜库奇津吉特的比赛中进球，当时东道主的空中统治让客队感到不安。阿尔巴尼亚担心这次会遭遇类似的命运，并可能会以防守的心态试图降低比分。
主教练Sylvinho包括切尔西的Armando Broja，他在周六埃弗顿1-1战平西汉姆联的比赛中自1月以来首次出场时看起来很犀利。他们的比赛计划可能是坐得很深，试图在反击中让布罗哈把球传到太空，但英格兰队在防守方面也不乏速度。
图切尔的球队应该用额外的动力来完成这项工作，在一位新教练的带领下建立自己，走向世界杯，这可能会让他们都感到紧张。但阿尔巴尼亚也不太可能屈服——他们在欧洲杯上的成绩，2比1输给意大利，2比2战平克罗地亚，1比0输给西班牙，表明他们将坚持下去。
然而，英格兰队在周五仍有可能以-1落后。三狮军团在李·卡斯利（Lee Carsley）的六场欧洲杯后比赛中有五场做到了这一点，并且有足够多的球员可以证明，以确保阿尔巴尼亚队不会得到一分。
预言：
英格兰-1
英格兰2:0
裘德·贝林厄姆随时得分
外文原文如下：
England’s Thomas Tuchel era finally begins with a home World Cup qualifier against Albania on Friday evening and the Three Lions should rise to the occasion.
A squad that had been settled under Gareth Southgate until the former coach decided to go with youth at the Euros has now seen several of the old guard return. Forgotten men Jordan Henderson, Reece James and Marcus Rashford are back in favour while the selection of Dan Burn indicates Tuchel wants to make use of England’s physical attributes against Albania.
James assisted Harry Maguire’s opener and Henderson also scored in a 5-0 home win over Kuqezinjte at Wembley in 2021 when the hosts’ aerial domination unnerved the visitors. Albania will be fearful of suffering a similar fate this time around and will likely try to keep the score down with a defensive mindset.
Head coach Sylvinho has included Chelsea’s Armando Broja, who looked sharp on his first appearance since January in Everton’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday. Their gameplan could be to sit deep and try to get Broja the ball in space on the counter attack, but England are not short of pace in defence either.
Tuchel’s team should get the job done with the extra motivation offered to this group of establishing themselves under a new coach moving towards a World Cup likely to have them all on their toes. But Albania are unlikely to cave in either — their results at the Euros, a 2-1 loss to Italy, 2-2 draw with Croatia and 1-0 loss to Spain, suggest they will hang in there.
However, England may still cover a -1 handicap on Friday. The Three Lions did that in five of their six post-Euros games under Lee Carsley and have enough players with a point to prove to ensure Albania don’t get a sniff of a point.
Predictions:England -1
England 2-0
Jude Bellingham To Score Anytime
