WORLD CUP DAILY: 'Baffling' England calls, Messi to meet Yamal, and Bohs progress but Derry falter
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And welcome to Friday's World Cup Daily, I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today, the fallout from England's World Cup exit continues, but Thomas Tuchel says he's 100% committed. Lionel Messi believes his Argentina team can be the first to go back-to-back at the World Cup since 1962, and Bows march on in Europe, but Derry drop into the Conference League. First, though, Thomas Ducal says England's DNA needs to change to win major tournaments. His defensive substitutions have been widely blamed for their World Cup semi-final loss to Argentina on Wednesday. The England boss is adamant switching to a back five wasn't a negative step. Former England defender Gary Neville thinks there's a deep-rooted issue.
For some reason, the mentality, the fatigue, whatever it is, physical, mental, tactical understanding, technical ability on the ball to be able to keep the ball, we fall short. We have done this continually in tournaments in England for a long, long time.
On the football show last night, Seamus Flanagan was joined by Ben Symes and Tim Vickery to look back at the semi-finals. And the South American football expert said he was baffled by the changes Tuchel made.
And how both Egypt and both Switzerland sat back and invited that pressure on him and ultimately led to their demise. How did England perceive that that was going to be any different for them? Bringing on Dan Byrne, bringing on Nico O'Reilly, sitting back in such a low defensive block and the lack of attacking threat that they had up the top. How could you have perceived that that was going to work after twice before seeing it go the distance with Switzerland and Egypt and playing out exactly the same fashion?
Well, I really can't. I can't imagine how anyone thought that that was going to work just for so long. They're going very negative quite soon after scoring the goal. After scoring, Argentina immediately adapt. And this is something that Argentina do extremely well. They're able to flip between... This is a side that's been together a long, long time. They're able to flip between different approaches in the same game. So Argentina's approach immediately changes. And England's attempts to press... immediately after scoring the goal, aren't successful. And then it becomes the Alamo. And what was so badly missing, so badly missing, was an out ball. And if you look at the England bench, it's just full of potential outballs.
Argentina at that point had both centre-backs on a yellow card and they sacrificed Paredes, the holding midfielder, to bring on Nico Gonzalez and stretch England to Argentina's left, England's right, which is what I think... tucco was trying to counter with the first substitution concert for gordon but i put on twitter at the time i don't understand this substitution okay gonzalez is going to stretch you and he's going to cause problems but he's not he's not de maria and uh very soon gonzalez is playing it left back because they take taliafico off as well and and then all right he's going to come but there's all that space behind him and uh
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–8:34
2
Why are Thomas Tuchel’s late defensive substitutions being criticized after England vs Argentina?
8:34–14:36
3
What adjustments did Argentina make after scoring to flip the game on England?
14:36–17:20
4
How did pundits describe England’s lack of an ‘outball’ and tactical errors in the semi-final?
17:20–21:05
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