Head coach steps back from tactical tinkering, as a smaller squad prioritises intensity against Andorra on Saturday
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or Thomas Tuchel, the fundamentals will never change, the ones that he outlined when he breezed into the England job on a one-man wave of positivity and excitement. The head coach regards it as essential that his team play with the passion of the Premier League; as a band of brothers, high-fiving, encouraging, selfless.
It is about energy and intensity; after a ball loss, for example. Tracking back. They must enjoy the freedom to express themselves. Harry Kane can drop off a bit from the No 9 position but not too much. There needs to be speed around him, space and incisive patterns throughout.
“It is our job to make it quickly understandable, to make it easier to transform it on to the pitch,” Tuchel said when he named his first squad in March for the opening World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Latvia at Wembley.
