Should Thomas Tuchel start Jude Bellingham in the No 10 role? Which formation gives England the best chance of going all the way in the USA?

Forget scribbling your teams down with pad and pen, use our formation builder instead, selecting from the full England World Cup squad. You can share your selection with your friends, game-by-game, round-by-round.

Plus, alongside building your teams, use our predictor tool to select the winners of each group and each knockout round.

And if you need any assistance plotting the journey of each team and learning who your nation will probably come up against, watch our columnist Jamie Carragher have a go.

Having successfully predicted that Argentina would win the last World Cup in Qatar, Jamie sits down with our chief football writer Sam Wallace to forecast how the five-week tournament will unfold.

As you can imagine, foremost in their discussion is the fate of Tuchel’s England, who are hoping to win a first major trophy since 1966.

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And no World Cup experience is complete without a wall chart to plot your way through this summer’s football extravaganza.

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