{"id":6211,"date":"2026-07-17T04:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:36:41","slug":"english-media-and-former-players-criticize-thomas-tuchel-after-teams-latest-world-cup-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=6211","title":{"rendered":"English media and former players criticize Thomas Tuchel after team\u2019s latest World Cup letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 England hired a German coach to end 60 years of hurt but saw its World Cup hopes come crashing down in the most English of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=6209\">Silver says Caitlin Clark has become a \u2018political football\u2019 amid WNBA officiating debates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another defeat in the semifinals. Another defeat from a winning position.<\/p>\n<p>The English media was predictably critical of coach Thomas Tuchel after Wednesday\u2019s 2-1 loss to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame old story\u201d read one headline. Another declared that \u201cTuchel just shrank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel, a serial trophy-winning coach with Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, was hired to put a second star on England\u2019s jersey and end the decades-long wait for a first trophy since the World Cup in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The wait goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Former England captain Gary Lineker raised the question about Tuchel\u2019s future, saying he was \u201cbrought in specifically to take us over the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he the right man to take us forward?\u201d Lineker said on his Netflix show \u2018The Rest is Football.\u2019 \u201cHe just got it so wrong in the big moment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tuchel\u2019s predecessor, Gareth Southgate, was credited with making England fans fall back in love with the men\u2019s national team after years of underachievement. He reached back-to-back European Championship finals but ultimately fell short, with his supposed cautious approach said to have cost England in clutch matches.<\/p>\n<p>Southgate\u2019s substitutions were criticized as well as his tactics when England relinquished leads against Croatia in the World Cup semifinals in 2018 and Italy in the final of the Euros three years later.<\/p>\n<p>There was criticism of the English soccer federation\u2019s decision to turn to a German, but Tuchel, a Champions League winner, was supposed to be difference maker in those key moments.<\/p>\n<p>Leading 1-0 going into the 85th minute and in a defensive shell, England saw its hopes shattered on Argentina goals from Enzo Fernandez and substitute Lautaro Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a real panic. You can\u2019t go a goal up and then surrender the ball and surrender any opportunity of trying to get the second goal,\u201d former England captain Wayne Rooney told the BBC. \u201dI just think the decisions Thomas Tuchel made, and I think we have to be honest on this, have cost us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lineker said Tuchel\u2019s tactics and substitutions after going 1-0 up \u201cmade zero sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel, who signed a two-year contract extension ahead of the World Cup, stood by his decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=6207\">NBA \u2018continuing to look into\u2019 circumstances regarding Bucks\u2019 signing of Gary Trent Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as you lose, you get criticized. It\u2019s just what it is,\u201d Tuchel said. \u201cNo one knows what would have happened if I had made different decisions so it makes no sense to engage in that and lose my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m responsible for them. I took them, so I take the criticism. That\u2019s just the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FA chief executive Mark Bullingham said shortly after the loss that it is \u201cheartbreaking to be so close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players and Thomas gave it everything today and the squad, coaches and staff could not have worked harder during the tournament,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI would like to thank them all \u2014 and also give my heartfelt thanks to our wonderful fans here in the USA and at home. We felt your support every step of the way and we are all so disappointed not to go further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England will face France in the third-place game on Saturday in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Defeat to defending champion Argentina continued a pattern for the England men at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>It has not beaten one of the traditional major nations at soccer\u2019s biggest tournament since the 1-0 win over Argentina in the group stage in 2002. Before that, England beat France in the group stage in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Knockout eliminations have come at the hands of Argentina and Germany on three occasions each, Brazil, Portugal and France. There was also the 2018 semifinals defeat to Croatia, a team that has never won a major trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel, however, does not buy into the narrative that repeated failure is a specifically English problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love to see these things in a football matter and through football glasses. So first of all I always think it\u2019s solvable on the football field,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe so much in an English thing or in a curse or whatever or history repeating itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain and Ireland are co-hosting Euro 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a contract until the home Euros, and I\u2019m looking forward to that, even if right now it is difficult to look that far ahead,\u201d Tuchel said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=6205\">NCDHHS works to identify source of cyclospora outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>James Robson is at https:\/\/x.com\/jamesalanrobson<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n                See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here\n              <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 England hired a German coach to end 60 years of hurt but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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