'Not part of our training' - Thomas Tuchel critical of 'freestyling' England after narrow win over World Cup minnows New Zealand
Goal | 07.06.2026 08:03
“I’m OK with it,” said the former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss. “I’m not super-happy about it. I like the second half more than the first half. We played more from our positions and that’s why we played with more speed and off the ball we played with a bit more bite. The first half we were out of positions and it was a bit too much freestyle. That slowed our game down and made it difficult for the counterpress because we were not in the positions that we wanted to be when we started attacking. That’s basically the story of the match.”