England v Belgium, 28 June 2018

Kick-off: 8.00pm local (7.00pm BST) England v Belgium was Match 45 of the FIFA World Cup 2018. Refereeing team: Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 1: Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia) Assistant Referee 2: Robert Vukan (Slovenia) Fourth Official: Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates) Fifth Official: Mohammed Alhammadi (United Arab Emirates) VAR : Artur Soares Dias (Portugal) AVAR1: Pawel Gil (Portugal) AVAR 2: Roberto Díaz Pérez Del Palomar (Spain) AVAR 3: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina) With both nations already qualified, this final Group G game decided that Belgium finished as winners and England as runners-up, with England finding an easier path in the knockouts and Belgium one of the favourites to make the final - an outcome worth betting on with this bet365 bonus code. Belgium had won two of the 21 previous meetings. They prevailed in a 3-2 friendly win in Brussels in May 1936 while they also came out on top of a penalty shoot-out following a goalless draw in a King Hassan II Cup encounter in Casablanca in May 1998. Adnan Januzaj's goal was his first for Belgium in the former Manchester United player's ninth appearance for his country. Belgium had now won their last seven games in the group stages of the World Cup finals. They had won eight of their previous 24 games at this stage of the competition. Belgium were now one of three nations to retain a 100% record at the end of the group stage at this World Cup finals; also Uruguay and Croatia. England made eight changes to their starting line-up from the previous group game; their second highest number of changes for a World Cup finals game after Roy Hodgson made nine between the Uruguay and Costa Rica games in 2014. At 25 years and 251 days, the average age of England's starting line-up their second-ever youngest at a major tournament. The average age was 25 years and 207 days for the game with Sweden in the World Cup finals in 2002.