Rafa Honigstein

But I think he's kind of, at least on the evidence of the first game, managed to push their buttons in addition to all the tactical stuff that he is so brilliant at.

He's a fantastic manager.

give very detailed instructions and explanations.

You would have seen certain things that didn't quite work in the first half and it would have, together with the analyst, shown him two or three scenes and in maximum three minutes he would have really effectively communicated what they need to change.

combined with the kind of rousing motivational powers that you need at this level.

So he can be the complete package.

It's just that England, I think, are a special case and can a foreign manager and can somebody like Tuchel, who in the past has struggled with management, funnily enough.

Can he connect with them the way his predecessor did?

But it looks like he does.

And that's the thing maybe I underestimated or overestimated when I worried about the man-management thing.

I think the highest motivation that you can get from players is their belief in you helping them to win games.

As long as Tuchel can do these things at halftime saying, look, position yourself a little bit more to the left or the spaces are here, do this and we're going to score.

And then you do it and you think as a player, wow, that's all I want from a manager.

And then you will love and follow that manager, even if he's perhaps a little grumpy and strange in other ways.

I mean, think of Pep Guardiola.

He's not a person that you can sometimes think that he's the most easily relatable person in the world.

He's very intense, very obsessive in his own world a little bit.

But players love him because he helps them win games and he makes them better players.

And Tuchel, I think, is on his way to doing that with England.

Yeah, it was about the, I think, Jesse Marsh didn't go into details, but he explained that he didn't like the reaction of the Qatar bench, who I think tried to downplay the severity of the foul and tried to make out that Canada overreacting to it in order to get the player sent off.