John Barnes’ 150/1 England vs Croatia Bet Builder

England legend John Barnes has joined the Betfred team as our official World Cup Ambassador throughout the summer in North America. He’ll provide us with his views and insight on all things England, plus anything and everything going on in the world of football over the next two months.

He spoke to our team ahead of the tournament this week and gave us a massive England vs Croatia Bet Builder that has been kindly boosted by the Betfred traders.

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We spoke to John Barnes ahead of the huge game on Wednesday and he gave us all his England vs Croatia team news thoughts. The 62-year-old star then provided a Bet Builder for the Group L opener in Dallas.

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Correct Score 1-1

We asked Barnes for a predicted score ahead of kick-off, and he expects the game to be a stalemate and a tense, tight affair.

“I’m going to go with 1-1. I think both teams will be okay with that as it’ll be a game that neither of them want to lose and Thomas Tuchel is a very pragmatic manager anyway, so I don’t think it’s going to be a very open game.”

There have only been two draws in the previous 11 matches between the two sides, with the most recent coming back in 2018 in a dour 0-0 Nations League bore draw.

Harry Kane to score anytime

Next up John selected Harry Kane to score a goal anytime in the 90 minutes...

“I’ll go with Harry Kane. We don’t know what the team is, but I think it's safe to say that Harry will play.”

The England striker is of course one of the most feared frontmen in world football, scoring a record 79 goals for the Three Lions and netting 61 in just 51 games for Bayern Munich this season.

England vs Croatia Odds

Ezri Konsa to be carded

John finished off his England vs Croatia Bet Builder by adding Ezri Konsa to be carded. It looks almost certain that the Aston Villa centre-back will line up alongside John Stones at the expense of Marc Guehi, and Barnes thinks he could have a run in with referee Clement Turpin.

The 28-year-old has picked up just one yellow card in his 10 England appearances thus far...

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