Tuchel blasts England's lack of quality and energy

England manager Thomas Tuchel criticised his squad aft they struggled to a 1-0 triumph distant to Andorra successful a World Cup qualifier connected Saturday.

Tuchel has won his archetypal 3 matches successful complaint with nary goals conceded but had it not been for Harry Kane's 50th-minute extremity his squad would person faced humiliation against a broadside ranked 173rd successful the world.

After collecting the 3 points that enactment England successful bid of Group K, Tuchel made nary effort to sweetener overgarment a show that was mode beneath par.

"We are not blessed of course," helium said. "We mislaid the momentum wholly aft the archetypal 25 minutes and couldn't get it back.

"We ended up successful a play that wasn't bully capable with a deficiency of urgency and a deficiency of prime and a deficiency of energy."

In further quotes to ITV Sport helium added: "We tin conscionable admit it that it's not what we expect from us. We request to look astatine it successful item and bash amended connected Tuesday.

"We mislaid each momentum aft the archetypal 25 minutes and lacked the prime and the energy. I was astir disquieted successful the past 20 minutes, I did not similar the cognition that we ended the crippled with. I didn't similar the deficiency of urgency. It is inactive a World Cup qualifier distant from home."

England had 83% of the possession against a federation they had scored 25 goals against without reply successful six erstwhile meetings, but suffered from a chronic deficiency of imagination.

Asked if his connection earlier the crippled had not got done to his players, Tuchel added: "The connection got crossed due to the fact that we had a bully 25 minutes but past the vigor and the determination weren't determination anymore."

It was a refreshingly honorable instrumentality from the erstwhile Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich manager whose declaration with England lone runs to the day of adjacent year's World Cup final.

He did person benignant words, however, for Chelsea winger Noni Madueke whose show was astir the lone agleam constituent for England.

"He was implicit the people of the match, the astir dangerous. I could consciousness his hunger to bash what was the program passim the full of the match," Tuchel said.

Captain Kane, whose extremity was the 450th of his vocation for nine and country, besides praised Madueke.

"I deliberation helium was a changeless menace contiguous and got the assistance for the goal, but we request much of that," Kane said.

"We person astonishing players and we request players who are not acrophobic to instrumentality players connected and if they suffer it, bash it again."

England big Senegal successful a affable successful Nottingham connected Tuesday.