Was Thomas Tuchel right to criticize Gareth Southgate for England to ‘afraid to lose’ to Euro 2024? | Football news
Thomas Tuchel gave honest – and brutal – the EURO 2024 EUR EUR 2024 rating. Sir Gareth Southgate at his first press press conference, saying that three lions “played not to lose” while stuttering several smaller nations on the way to the finals.
Southgate was often the division of the figure for eight years in charge of the men’s national team, with questions over his term of office on Thursday she conquered Tuchel’s comments.
England failed to inspire during most of the tournament last summer, winning only two of the six games within 90 minutes on the way to the finals – and struggling to create against Slovakia and Slovenia, which were both ranked outside the top 40 pages in the world.
Has German law pointed out significant shortcomings of England against nations that were expected to win the Euro 2024 comfortably? Or reaching for the first foreign finals deserves more respect?
Here’s a case for both sides …
Tuchel the right to highlight the fear of England from failure
“Looking at euros, I felt tension and pressure on the shoulders of the player and they played not to lose,” Tuchel’s gaze on how his new allegations performed at Southgate at the European Championship last summer.
Anyone who watched in England hard at a group stage in Germany, when they only managed to pass by Serbia, before being held by Denmark and Slovenia, they would certainly agree with the judgment of the new manager of three Lions.
Southgate Sam pointed out at the time, saying: “[The players were] Almost worried about what could go wrong. We hadn’t had that for a few years. Maybe it was an expectation, maybe it was a lot of external things. “
It was not much better even in the last 16 conflict with the low Slovakia, when England saved with a reluctant -to -date early exit, spectacular last last equalization of Jude Bellingham.
Tuchel’s list of failures of England in the tournament also did not include a clear style of playing, clarity, identity, rhythm, freedom and hunger, which makes their possible appearance in the final even more extraordinary, but the statistics are more upset.
Three lions finished the tournament on average 10 shots per game – in 19th place from 24 sides – while they were ranked 15th. To win the ball in the last third – Spain’s winners did so almost twice as often. As for the work rate, no English player was in the first 20 at a distance covered in 90 minutes.
But for Tuchel, in the end it was the weight of the T -shirt of England, which contributed to their unpleasant performances at the euros, which they remember to enter the favorites.
“It’s not worth a distracting and bothering, but you’ve all said it and I’ve heard it so many times – the weight of shirts, the weight of the shirt,” Tuchel added.
This is that pressure counterproductive, which is why Tuchel thinks it will be better if England goes to the 2026 World Cup. It is not like one of the favorites: “The tradition for the national team is not to win and we may have to accept that once we arrive in America, we may not be favored.”
And then, maybe England may be able to better fulfill its mentioned ambition to “play with excitement and hunger and desire to win.”
Richard Morgan
Why the achievements of Southgate deserve more respect
Southgate’s mandate as a manager of England has and will be understandable. But there is one key fact that we cannot get out of: two of their three main finals, and their only on foreign soil, they entered his watch.
Last year, England cannot be denied with caution in Germany, and Southgate owes a lot of Bellingham’s individual hero against Slovakia to avoid what will be an unsightly end.
But the bite and determination that pulled them out of the prison in that game helped England to hold their heads in the perfect victory in the shooting against Switzerland and pushed to the last blow against the Netherlands is something that can take a lot of credit for.
The biggest achievement of Southgate as an English manager is undoubtedly the way he raised the weight of a shirt in the way a few of others succeeded.
This has proven to be much of his cancellation. He made it to reach the last stages of the tournament feel like the norm, and of course, it became harder to remember how much of the history of three lions had been.
For a team in England scared for loss, exiting the Euro 2016 to the country with 400,000 inhabitants or failed to qualify for the Euro 2008, this was the worst major Southgate tournament and still led England to the finals.
Once there, the appearance against Spain again emphasized his greatest flaws – the lack of elite tactical sharpness and adaptability in the game. But equally, you do not reach two finals and semi -finals just about managing a man.
Over time, history will be kinder to the second best successful manager of England, because his modest modest modesty has made a very difficult job much easier than for most of his predecessors-most of whom have arrived with far better resumes than he had.
If Tuchel can fulfill his promise of football, attacking football and making English players excited to play for the team, and all his credit. But such types of statements in the chest build exactly such a pressure of Southgate, suffering from allevia and returned to bites many managers of England before it.
Ron Walker
