The selector of England, Thomas Tuchelassured that He does not regret the direction the game took after his tactical modifications, which led England to completely renounce the ball and allowed Argentina to come back and reach the World Cup final.
“I don’t regret anything. The team gave everything and we were very, very close. I think we deserved to win one to zero. We played one of our best games, maybe the best given the circumstances. The team was ten. We couldn’t close it,” he said in an interview for the Fifa at the end of the meeting.
Argentina beat England 1-2, with goals from Enzo Fernández and Lautaro Martínez in minutes 85 and 90+2 respectively, which made the Argentine siege good.
“We are disappointed. We were very close, but we became too passive after scoring; We conceded many chances and could not reverse possession of the ball. From there, we limited ourselves to conceding a lot of crosses, chances and shots. We were close, but we couldn’t maintain the level after our goal,” explained Tuchel.
After getting ahead on the scoreboard, England stopped pressing and the coach introduced several defensive changes with the purpose of ensuring the result.
“We were just trying to help the players. We conceded a goal straight away. We decided to move to a five-back line because the lines were too far apart. They won all the headed balls, they didn’t stop hanging crosses over and over again,” argued Tuchel, who assumed his responsibility.
“Of course The responsibility is the coach. “If things don’t go well, it’s easy to say it was a mistake,” he stressed.
And he ended by highlighting the work of the group, which “he traveled many kilometers, traveled a lot, played at altitude, with ten men, in the heat” and he had a great tournament.
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