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Team news
England XI (4-3-3): Moorhouse; Bronze, Le Tissier, Hinds, Wubben-Moy; Walsh, Kendall, Park; Kelly, Kearns, Beever-Jones.
After saying she would use the final games of the year to experiment, Sarina Wiegman opted for a fairly strong XI against China. Today, a few newer faces start with only Only Moorhouse, Le Tissier, Bronze and Walsh keep their places from the weekend’s starting lineup.
Ghana XI (4-2-3-1): Conlan; Simon, Boakye, Ama Duah, Yeboah; Cudjoe, Asantewaa; Kusi, Boye-Hlorkah, Nyamekye; Boaduwaa.
Simon makes her debut for Ghana after an allegiance swap from France with the long serving captain Boakye starting alongside her. Achiaa makes a return but is only fit enough the bench. Boaduwaa, the reigning Ghanian female footballer of the year, scored four goals during her side’s two games at the last international break and will hope to add to that tally.
Preamble
Two days ago England hammered China 8-0 at Wembley in what proved to be a relatively easy test and Sarina Wiegman’s side will hope to close out 2025 in similar fashion against Ghana in Southampton.
The Black Queens come to St. Mary’s in good form, beating Egypt 7-0 on aggregate in a two-leg 2026 Afcon qualifier after coming in third in this summer’s edition. Their head coach is Kim Björkegren, the Swede most recently managing Racing Louisville in the NWSL.
Team news coming up shortly before the 7pm GMT kick-off. As always, feel free to get in touch with your questions, comments, thoughts, predictions via email. And since this is England’s last match of the year, send over your favourite Lioness goal, assist, block, save or overall moment of 2025. Plenty to choose from!
