Dave Hanratty

I don't think Tuchel would have been echoing those sentiments had that been the case.

So whatever about who, presumably Tuchel, calls the ultimate shots, but...

Anthony Barry went out as Will said like those are off and bland like we need to do better in attack and defence that's the best you're going to get from coaches usually in that setting so I thought like Frank and you know let's be realistic here there's a bit of self-regard about that like it's self-promotion to an extent like he knows he's in a shop window yeah and

Yeah, that's a very good point.

It definitely, that blitzkrieg, that 20 minutes after halftime was super impressive and intense.

But I thought the way France scored their goals had a little bit more craft and class and poise.

They're not France.

And maybe in the hotter temperatures, that could be a factor.

You know, they're not France.

I think, I thought England, and I didn't see the Argentina...

by all accounts Algeria not great I'd say the best ceiling I've seen week one is France and then yeah probably England there thereabouts too but I think your observation on the nature of the goals like some of them came from pressing high off the pitch and against the 40 year old Luka Modric that's one thing in an air conditioned state of the art stadium in Dallas if it's

35 degrees, belting heat, like, against nimble midfield.

Easier said than done.

Where's their heat-proof plan?

That's my major point of last night.

Last night was high octane.

Jamie Carragher was talking about how Thomas Tuchel has transformed international football here in that, you know, we brought in the other foreign managers to tell us to play the right way and Tuchel's actually bought into Premier League football.

He said, he's the one telling us to forget everything we've been told and play like a top English club side instead.

So again, let's do that in 30 degrees.

I think that that might be interesting.