Tuchel says he won't 'sugarcoat' England criticism

Thomas Tuchel has warned his England squad helium volition not "sugarcoat" his nationalist appraisal of performances aft criticising aspects of Saturday's 1-0 win implicit Andorra.

Harry Kane's 50th-minute close-range decorativeness was capable to support a 100% grounds successful World Cup qualifying from 3 matches nether Tuchel.

However, England were booed disconnected by a conception of the 7,000-strong travelling enactment astatine some half-time and full-time, earlier Tuchel questioned the team's attitude and suggested they were "playing with fire" by not closing retired the crippled with the requisite intensity.

Speaking successful a quality league astatine St. George's Park connected Monday up of a affable against Senegal, Tuchel said: "I support my players, I said nary names of players and it is not an idiosyncratic matter. But we arsenic a team, we simply did not lucifer our ain standards. I did not similar the past 10 minutes due to the fact that I felt connected the sideline we didn't play earnestly capable similar what we needed to bash successful a World Cup qualifier.

"What I person told you I person already told the squad directly. There are nary messages that I springiness via a property conference. Everything I accidental here, I already said to the players. Why should we sugarcoat it? You person been successful the stadium, wherefore should I archer you that we had a bully crippled and we are blessed with what we did if we are not happy? No harm done. We tin grip criticism.

"I person ever powerfully believed that a radical of shot players tin talk honestly to each other, I ever see myself. It is ever a 'we' connection we effort to give. Now it's connected america to bash better.

"The cognition towards training, the cognition successful camp, the committedness from the players, was outstanding. Everybody wanted to beryllium there, everybody wanted to beryllium involved, everybody wanted to commencement and to play successful this game. We past got a small spot stuck. We instrumentality our investigation from this and effort to bash amended of course."

England are expected to marque respective changes against Senegal with Bukayo Saka acceptable to instrumentality to the starting line-up, portion Tuchel hinted Kane volition proceed to skipper the side.

Tuchel urged his radical to savour each infinitesimal they person unneurotic with the World Cup present conscionable a twelvemonth away.

"It's a learning astatine the moment. Today volition beryllium our 11th grooming league together, the aforesaid arsenic one-and-a-half weeks successful nine football. Here it is fractional a year.

"We request to worship training, we request to worship each infinitesimal successful matches and of people we larn worldly without over-interpreting stuff. It's bully to spot players successful choky situations and successful moments erstwhile things are not easy. At the moment, it is simply a large learning of course."

Speaking to reporters aft Tuchel, Saka refused to comparison the caller manager with his predecessor Gareth Southgate but said: "If I conscionable talk astir Thomas himself, since I've travel into the camp, I conjecture he's been rather demanding, rather aggravated connected the pitch.

"Off the pitch, much relaxed, a bully guy, fto america bask ourselves and crested a bully situation for each the players to enjoy."