England kick off their 2022 World Cup Qualifying group with a very easy match against San Marino tomorrow night in Group I.
With the easy game coming first Gareth Southgate can use it to get a better look at players who have not appeared too often and maybe give debut's to Sam Johnstone and Ollie Watkins.
The Three Lions have faced San Marino six times previously and beat them all six times, the only time San Marino have scored is in 1993 when Davide Gualtieri scored the opener in the first only for them to lost 7-1.
Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford are the biggest names primed and ready but they may be saved for the harder games later in the week.
San Marino's side mainly consists of semi-professional players in the San Marino top flight the Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio.
However, a couple of players play in the lower leagues of Italy and Nicola Nanni actually plays for Serie A side Crotone but is onle with Cesena in Serie C.
Even with this game possibly being used to get a look at a few of the players who have not had too many caps, The Beautiful Game thinks that it will still be a walker and a 7-0 win for England.
The Beautiful Game predicts England will line up like this:
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