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Julien Laurens

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ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

I agree with Ian completely on that.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

And the problem, you're right, is more the form at club level of some of those talented superstars that England have, like Bellingham, like Palmer, like Foden, like Saka to some extent.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

And the list continues.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

And that would be the biggest worry if I was Thomas Tuchel.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

Ian, am I being too negative?

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

Yeah, Craig made quite a big deal.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

He said, where are the points going to come?

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

I think it's hard to tell because you could also look at this Sunderland game, where Sunderland, away from home, it's not easy, it's a tough place, blah, blah, blah, all of that.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

We know already all those clichΓ©s, but they also have nothing to play for.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

They can't qualify for Europe, let's be honest.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

They don't really believe in it.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

They can't go down.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

They're that kind of mid-table team right now that if you show a different mentality from Spurs, if you go there with a different mentality, and De Zerbi has two weeks, it's very easy.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

slightly less than two weeks, but to get that, at least, and we explained yesterday, he will have to be pragmatic.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

For somebody who's so dogmatic as him, in terms of tactics, in terms of identity, style, DNA, it might be very difficult for him to move from being very dogmatic to being very pragmatic, but he will have to do, he'll have to be, because it's not in the space of 10 days that this first team, that by the way, not many of those players are suited to the deserby ball style of football that we know,

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

So it's not in 10 days that he will implement that to the team.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

However, he's also very intense.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

He can have that going home mentality of like, we have to go, we have to fight.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

I think he's got the charisma to transmit that to the players.

ESPN FC
USMNT Stumble vs Portugal

And that's how they will have to play between now and the end of the season.