London – In spite of everything that talks about new epochs, new beginnings and building an England ready to win, it would be difficult to find very different between the first two games by Thomas Tuchel and many of the 35 classifiers Gareth Southgate strolled to the three lions (28 wins, six draws, a defeat).
This 3-0 victory over Latvia was developed as any number of occasions in England in recent memory. For all questions in construction: how will Declan Rice face a single pivot, why the confidence in Marcus Rashford is Myles Lewis-Skelly First Choice who now left now? The real problems did not have to do with the local team. How long could the Lastonia low block resist? Would they take one or two opportunities to be presented and really put the cat between the pigeons? When visiting legs inevitably open up, how many will Harry Kane be added to their goals?
This is only the European game in the years between tournaments. Between the aristocracy and the small group of canyon fodder (Your Andorras, San Marino and Liechtensteins) there is a mass of equipment that can be quite playful during the day, but that, in view of the best of the best, tend to fall into their shells. As Wembley’s rapid emptying reflected in the final whistle, it is not very fun to see the great bouncing repeatedly up and down until cracks arise. Even when a brilliant Missile Reece James offers the first fissure.
At least, at least, the former head of Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich who now leads England will not be familiar with the training of a talented mismatch. Whatever the level, the salary imbalance, the power of the star, decomposing a low diligent block is a fairly exhausting task. Leaving the paper aircraft squad that patrolled Wembley’s sky after 10 minutes, a fan base where many had disappointed Gareth Southgate was not completely in love with the new boss.
On the other hand, if the opposition will not leave its own third of the field when you have the ball, if they will not show inclination to apply pressure on you, there are only many ways to advance in dangerous positions. Against Latvia, England tried them all.
Jude Bellingham took you into account of the second strikers imported to the English game in the 1990s, his understanding of light space in years before his opponents. When picking up the ball in the narrow corridor between the letters, I had space to turn, shoulder defenders to be brushed as autumn leaves. One day he will score a solo goal of all time for England.
On the other side of the field, Morgan Rogers and Jarrod Bowen put them to the tail effectively, the latter moves and darts to take the hosts to the box. Throughout his first camp, Tuchel has made a point of wanting to dominate the opposition in terms of touches of sanction. By replacing Curtis Jones with Rogers, the new boss changed the center of gravity quite significantly. England was now preparing the fair camp of Latvia instead of the five or 10 yards further back they had been against Albania. Add to Myles Lewis-Skelly as a true inverted left and the field was titled as the final levels in Super Monkey Ball.
During most of this game, the problem was not that England was committing very few players in the box, the bad days with Southgate. In any case, there were too many white shirts along the way. Marcus Rashford was present to get in the goal head of Jude Bellingham; That was not the only time that an England player got in the effort of his teammate.
A little more space was all that was required. James had many of those 25 yards, cleaning other interested parties before bending a free kick in the upper corner that could only be described as Beckham-Esque. That the gates did not open immediately spoke more to the diligence with which Latvia performed their task. There seemed to have enough bodies to send Rashford a little more, to force Bellingham to review once again. If the Vladislavs Gutkovskis would not have mixed in front of an open goal, Marc Guehi colliding with Jordan Pickford and that the ball away, they could have been able to give a bamboo of England.
Instead, they faced slow routine. Lewis-Skelly’s precise pass through the lines found Bellingham, who rolled the ball so that Kane crawls par. The substitute for the aggressive of the Eberrechi Eze ball was just what the moment required. Then Rice went to Cantering in the overlap, his court leaving Kane with just an empty network in front of him. Eze added a third with fast feet and the type of deviation that had not favored Bellingham or Rogers.
In almost every way, this was England as they were before. It is probably England, since they will be very far in the future. Only when the big equipment comes to the list of accessories, the impact of Tuchel will really be evident. So … at any time in the last stages of the United States next summer?
