World Cup 2022 scores, updates: England vs. Iran live tracker - Yahoo Sports

The 2022 World Cup is upon us.

The tourney kicked disconnected Sunday with a 2-0 Ecuador triumph implicit big federation Qatar and continues successful earnest connected Monday with 3 matches.

The United States and England are successful Group B and some are looking for 3 points up of their monolithic Black Friday clash. Both teams are favored successful their opening games and would beryllium successful large presumption to beforehand with wins connected Monday.

England vs. Iran

8 a.m. ET Monday, Fox Sports 1

England should triumph this 1 with ease, though we’re fascinated astir however this crippled plays out. Iran is coached by Carlos Queiroz. His teams are known to bunker successful beforehand of extremity and forestall goals astatine each costs. England wants to play 5 defenders astatine the backmost and would similar to onslaught connected the counter. The Three Lions volition predominate possession. And if determination was ever a clip for Gareth Southgate to play 4 astatine the backmost and Declan Rice, Kalvin Phillips and Jude Bellingham each successful midfield, this is it.

Senegal vs. Netherlands

11 a.m. ET Monday, Fox

Senegal’s likelihood haven’t budged with the quality that prima guardant Sadio Mane is out. We’d beryllium inclined to spot a flier connected a draw, however. This is Africa’s champion squad and Ismaila Sarr is susceptible of starring the beforehand enactment portion Kalidou Koulibaly is 1 of the champion defenders successful the world.

United States vs. Wales

2 p.m. ET, Monday, Fox

As you apt know, the USMNT is backmost astatine the World Cup for the archetypal clip since 2014. That drought is thing compared to a Wales squad that’s successful a World Cup for the archetypal clip successful 64 years. Gareth Bale is inactive the prima for Wales aft playing a part-time relation astatine LAFC and Aaron Ramsey is inactive a cardinal component. The biggest question for the Welsh is Joe Allen; helium suffered an injured hamstring successful September and hasn’t played since. If Allen can’t go, there’s nary existent replacement for him successful the squad.

We’ll instrumentality the U.S. to triumph this 1 successful what could beryllium 1 of the apical 5 astir captious matchups of the radical stage. The loser of this crippled has a monolithic ascent to marque the Round of 16.