England head coach Thomas Tuchel commented on the minimal victory of his players in the friendly match against New Zealand (1:0).
" This strengthened our game and made counter-pressing more difficult, so that we were not in positions where we would have wanted to settle down if we started to attack.
Our hangings were timid, there were a lot of blows from far away, which sounded not in our style.
We were afraid of a lot of long passes. This was not included until the training program for the remaining few days.
Many of our Gravians rebelled together at the leaf fall. We had a lot of training sessions, and we had a completely mixed warehouse, so that we had never played in such combinations before, so as to give each person 45 minutes of playing time,” Tuchel quotes ESPN.
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