This year, England will perform their two warm-up matches for Euro 2024.
This week's warm-up matches against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland take a different direction for England's preparation for Euro 2024.
As he prepares to make the final cuts before submitting his 26-man game selection, Three Lions director Gareth Southgate will have one last chance to run the concept over his temporary 33-man crew during the two games.
The two competitors were chosen for a very specific reason, aside from providing the player's fringe players with a last chance to qualify for Euro 2024.
Because of customary pre-season games between England and other countries having an eye on what will happen that summers. Particularly, the Three Lions ' friendly competitors will be neighborhood ( or thereabouts ) of groups they are about to face in the upcoming event.
Monday's competitors Bosnia & Herzegovina reveal a boundary with Serbia, who England take on in their Euro 2024 opening on June 16.
While Iceland obviously does n't share any land borders with any other state, England play Denmark in their second Group C, which is why they are Friday's opponents.
England warmed up with games against Austria and Romania, who are close to their party level foes Croatia and Czech Republic, in a return to Euro 2020.
It's also the same in World Cup times. No pre-season games were held because the autumn World Cup was being held in 2022, but England did so in 2018 as they prepared for their group-stage matches against Tunisia and Panama with games against Nigeria and Costa Rica.
England's two games scheduled for this week are no accident, with Southgate undoubtedly hoping that his part will be able to learn about the different soccer traditions of the Euro 2024 opponents in the coming days.
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