Watch Spain at 1-0 last night. That’s courage. That’s bravery. And then watch England at 1-0. What’s the difference?
We are a better team than Argentina, I’ve no doubt in my mind. But we deserved to get beat in the end. In fact, it could have been 4-1.
Bringing on 3 defenders at 1-0 up. What message does that send? I wrote it in my Daily Mail column after the Mexico game. Until we understand that courage and bravery is controlling possession under pressure and not booting / heading it up the field 40 yards then this will always be the end result.
Make no mistake, England have players to control games with the ball. The problem is that Tuchel’s mindset from day one was to have a strong defense.
He left Palmer and Wharton at home and left Mainoo on the bench.
The Rice-Anderson pivot is a bit defensive. It's all power and no control. Spain won't play that pivot.
Unfortunately, the pivot and those tall defenders weren't good enough to defend a one-goal lead. A short man even scored the winning goal for Argentina.
I'm crying 😢
The painful part for English fans is this was realistically their closest chance to win the World Cup.
Gone past Messi and they defeat Spain
The British Press will be Merciless with Tuchel.
Lions Led By Donkeys…
Tuchel killed England with his cowardice… no different to Southgate.
1-0 up, against a desperate high line from Argentina - crying out for Saka, Rashford and Watkins in that game state.
Instead defender after defended came on, Roy Hodgson style rather than the tactical maestro we were promised in Tuchel.
We just let Messi run the right flank with ease and gave Enzo room to keep getting shots off from distance. How was this not stopped?
I feel betrayed, what a fucking moron. Terrible game state management and he’s cost us a World Cup final.
Thomas Tuchel single-handedly destroyed this game. Starting to defend from the 60th minute of a World Cup semi-final is unforgivable. England had the game in their hands and the players to finish the job, but he ruined it. Well done to the players. you gave everything. 🦁
So fucking naive of Tuchel to think you can defend that deep and hold on against a team with this quality for so long in a game. We could ALL see this goal coming. Fucksake.
The way Tuchel has given this game to Argentina is a disgrace. How can such an experienced manager make so many bad subs and also park the bus from the 60th minute?
🚨 Argentina in their last 13 matches:
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: Penalty awarded
🇲🇽 Mexico: —
🇵🇱 Poland: Penalty awarded
🇦🇺 Australia: —
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Penalty awarded, red card avoided, and opponent sent off
🇭🇷 Croatia: Penalty awarded
🇫🇷 France: Penalty awarded and an irregular goal
🇩🇿 Algeria: Messi spared a red card
🇦🇹 Austria: Penalty awarded
🇯🇴 Jordan: Penalty awarded
🇨🇻 Cape Verde: Irregular goal
🇪🇬 Egypt: Penalty awarded, opponent's goal disallowed, offside goal allowed, and penalty not awarded to the opponent
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Opponent sent off
Argentina keep getting favorable call after favorable call. 🇦🇷🤑