Jonathan Liew
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187 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Jonathan Liew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Instead of going for a second goal, they allowed the game to compress.
They allowed an Argentina side that doesn't have a huge amount of pace, that has been through exhausting games in their own progress through the knockout stages.
to play exactly the game they wanted, patiently trying to break them down.
Lionel Messi, while the greatest player of all time, is 39 years old.
A stretched game, a quick game, a game of quick decisions and transitions doesn't suit him at all.
And it doesn't suit a lot of that Argentina side.
And England willingly acquiesced to the game that Argentina wanted to play.
It was a suicide note.
Yeah, totally.
I mean, I think there was a lot to be said for, you know, the English, the mentality, the kind of the fear of failure that tends to grip players.
And Tuchel is by no means the only coach who has seen his side play like this or kind of retreat to these tactics.
Yes, and I think he has much more control over this England squad than certainly Gareth Southgate did at the last three tournaments.
And in fact, many of his predecessors.
He is such a micromanager.
He has spent the last 18 months going through every single possible detail of exactly how games like this will pan out.
thinking not just about the tactics and the spaces and the contingencies, but the mentality, how players react under pressure and how to train them to make the right decisions.
Given that, given that he is a coach who was very specifically hired for the job of getting England through these games, it is a failure.
There's no other way.
If you bring in the guy who's supposed to win the World Cup and he doesn't win the World Cup, it's a fairly open and shut case.
Yeah, I mean, this is, I think, why for a lot of England fans, I think this is why it's so hurtful.
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