{"id":514417,"date":"2026-06-30T06:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514417"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:53:46","slug":"rooney-wants-to-see-mainoo-over-anderson-vs-congo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rooney-wants-to-see-mainoo-over-anderson-vs-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney wants to see Mainoo over Anderson vs. Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-England captain Wayne Rooney reveals he would start Red Devils midfielder Kobbie Mainoo instead of Elliot Anderson in tomorrow\u2019s World Cup 1\/16 final against DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Kobbie has not appeared in a match for the national team since the autumn of 2024, having dropped out of the Man United team under ex-head coach Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p>However, under Michael Carrick, the midfielder won his place back in the starting 11 and then appeared in 4 friendlies for England, but is yet to play at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, who is close to joining the Sky Blues from Nottingham Forest for a team record 116 million pounds, started all 3 games in the group phase.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rooney thinks that Mainoo would be a better choice: \u201cI would select in the midfield Mainoo and Jude Bellingham.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wayne Rooney says he would start Kobbie Mainoo instead of Elliot Anderson in Wednesday&#39;s World Cup game against DR Congo \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nl91qIJfKV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Nl91qIJfKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/2071880369671217643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-England captain Wayne Rooney reveals he would start Red Devils midfielder Kobbie Mainoo instead of Elliot Anderson in tomorrow\u2019s World Cup 1\/16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514418,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,27134],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,22785],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The former Manchester United forward shared his view.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514419,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514417\/revisions\/514419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514417"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514417"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}