England will look to complete a three-match winning run in the Nations League when Czechia visit Wembley on Tuesday, after Thomas Tuchel’s side scored 11 goals across the opening three games of an extended international break.
The Three Lions began with a 3-2 defeat by world champions Spain but responded with a 2-0 victory over Czechia in Prague before thrashing Croatia 7-0. Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka scored twice apiece against Croatia, with Jude Bellingham also scoring and providing three assists. Anthony Gordon and Morgan Rogers completed the emphatic win.
England are overwhelming favourites according to the Opta supercomputer, which gives them a 79.8% chance of victory from 10,000 simulations. Czechia have a 7.9% win probability, while the likelihood of a draw is 12.3%.
Czechia have lost six of their eight competitive meetings with England, winning two, although they have followed each of their previous two successive defeats with victory. England are unbeaten in all eight matches against Czechia at Wembley, winning six and drawing two. The latest was a 1-0 success in the Euro 2020 group stage.
England have not lost consecutive competitive home matches since defeats by Scotland in November 1999 and Germany in October 2000.
England’s attack in form
Tuchel’s side have shown a far more forceful attacking approach over the past fortnight. Across their last four matches in all competitions, England have beaten France 6-4 and Croatia 7-0.
It is the first time England have scored at least six goals in two different matches in a calendar year since 2019. They last achieved the feat in three games in 1908.
Gordon has scored in each of his past four England appearances. Wayne Rooney was the last player other than Kane to score in five consecutive matches for the national side, between October 2014 and March 2015. The Barcelona winger has also scored two headed goals in his past two England appearances, despite not scoring a header in 248 previous club appearances.
Gordon is the only player besides Kane to have been directly involved in a goal in five successive England appearances during the past 10 years, with four goals and two assists.
Saka scored twice with his right foot against Croatia, the first time he had scored two right-footed goals in one match for club or country. Bellingham was involved in more than two goals in an England game for the first time, while his three assists made him the first player to achieve that for England since Trent Alexander-Arnold against San Marino in November 2021.
England are without injured Alex Scott, who could miss up to two months, and Ezri Konsa. Rico Lewis has been called up, but the team’s attacking options remain available.
Czechia struggling
Czechia are bottom of the group after three defeats: 3-1 against Spain, 2-1 against Croatia and the loss to England. Santi Denia has lost all three matches as manager and could become only the second Czechia boss to lose his first four games, after Vaclav Jezek in 1973, when the nation was Czechoslovakia.
Czechia have lost five of their past six matches in all competitions, drawing the other, and have suffered four consecutive defeats. They last endured five straight losses between July 1972 and March 1973.
Their 1.73 expected goals is the sixth-lowest total among teams in the 2026-27 Nations League. They have managed 16 shots, more only than Gibraltar with 14 and Liechtenstein with nine, while only six teams have conceded more than their seven goals. Czechia have faced 56 shots, averaging 18.7 per match, with 22 on target.
Players to watch
Kane will win his 125th England cap if selected, drawing level with Peter Shilton as the nation’s most-capped player. His double against Croatia also made him the first England player to score at least 10 goals in three calendar years: 11 in 2026, 16 in 2021 and 12 in 2019. He has 89 goals in 124 appearances.
For Czechia, Adam Hlozek has been their leading attacking contributor over the past three matches, recording two assists, four shots and four chances created.
