Thomas Tuchel reinforced that he is not concerned about the defensive strength of his side.
‘We suffered from clearly from individual mistakes’
England have shipped seven goals across a 6-4 victory over France in the World Cup third place playoff and their 2-3 defeat to Spain.
For a big team that traditionally have been tough to break down, it is something of a departure from the norm. But the German does not feel it is a worrying trend.
“The last two matches were 6-4 against France and 2-3 against Spain. That's in itself seven goals in two matches. Very unusual. I had the question before. I understand the question. It's not a concern yet.
“I felt that we were in terms of organized defending and block defending and active defending to not spend too many too much time in a low block pushing out into middle block pushing out into our high press was on a very good level. It was on a higher level than many other matches on this kind of level.
“If you want to look isolated at it and how we did it as in in within the structure and in the units of the sides I was I was quite happy and I think this was a step ahead.
Mistakes in the deep build-up
“We suffered from clearly from individual mistakes when we had the ball especially in the deep buildup. So that is of course something we um cannot uh repeat on especially not on this kind of level.
“We have to take care about this. We have to be technically absolutely clinical under pressure. We need to improve these things. But this strangely enough this was when we had the ball, we were the biggest danger to ourselves around the box because we had just had too many individual mistakes.
No concerns in defending
“Purely in defending I have no concerns and trust we can do it. Some players are not here that that would also help organizing the defensive block, but we don't have any reason to be concerned yet.”
