| Tuchel 04:18 - Jul 6 with 1188 views | bsw72 |
Big calls tonight, showed awareness that the team were going to be backs to the wall for last 20-30 mins, put on Spence and Burns and the team defended brilliantly. Doubled up down both flanks and allowed the central defenders to fill the area.
What an extraordinary display, with 10 men for over 45 mins against a side who had not lost a competitive game at home since 2013.
This is a very different England team. |  | | |  |
| Tuchel on 04:22 - Jul 6 with 1133 views | Scuzzer |
Exactly right. |  |
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| Tuchel on 04:36 - Jul 6 with 1081 views | pointofblue |
Not sure. Thought we invited pressure with those changes - we had an outlet before the subs. Taking Anderson off whilst defending a lead was a bit strange too. We held on and won, though. That's all that matters. |  |
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| Tuchel on 04:44 - Jul 6 with 1046 views | SE1blue |
Love his emotion too.
Whether is celebrating a goal or losing his mind for a bad ref decision, he’s fully committed. |  |
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| Tuchel on 05:12 - Jul 6 with 1009 views | _CliveBaker_ |
Yeah I don’t think he had much choice at that stage, but our best hope of getting out of there with the win was to defend what we had, and that’s exactly what we did. Not sure I’d have fancied ET had they found an equaliser. |  | | |
| Tuchel on 08:22 - Jul 6 with 698 views | BlueRaider |
| Tuchel on 05:12 - Jul 6 by _CliveBaker_ |
Yeah I don’t think he had much choice at that stage, but our best hope of getting out of there with the win was to defend what we had, and that’s exactly what we did. Not sure I’d have fancied ET had they found an equaliser. |
Yes, I think we'd have been toast in extra time | |
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| Tuchel on 08:32 - Jul 6 with 666 views | BiGDonnie |
| Tuchel on 04:36 - Jul 6 by pointofblue |
Not sure. Thought we invited pressure with those changes - we had an outlet before the subs. Taking Anderson off whilst defending a lead was a bit strange too. We held on and won, though. That's all that matters. |
What would you have done? |  |
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| Tuchel on 09:18 - Jul 6 with 598 views | bsw72 |
| Tuchel on 04:36 - Jul 6 by pointofblue |
Not sure. Thought we invited pressure with those changes - we had an outlet before the subs. Taking Anderson off whilst defending a lead was a bit strange too. We held on and won, though. That's all that matters. |
What an odd take, he didn't invite pressure, he set the team out to cope with the pressure which we faced as a result of having a man less and Mexico going all out for goals.
He took Anderson off as he changed the team shape to cope with the attacking Mexico changes and Anderson's role was not required? | | | |
| Tuchel on 09:29 - Jul 6 with 548 views | bsw72 |
| Tuchel on 08:22 - Jul 6 by BlueRaider |
Yes, I think we'd have been toast in extra time |
What was interesting though is that Tuchel held back 1 sub, and his last sub was bringing on a fresh attacking midfielder.
Had we conceded, he would have still had 2 changes to make in ET vs the one which Mexico would have had, and having brought on Rogers, could have strengthened the holding midfielder and put Watkins or Toney on up front.
The option to then play the longer ball and have the pace to take advantage would have been there with against a tiring Mexico defence. [Post edited 6 Jul 9:30]
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