England’s head coach Thomas Tuchel, wants his team to keep playing aggressively and said he doesn’t want to disturb the music. The German said he and his support staff don’t want to be a hindrance to the momentum and revealed that their job is to encourage the players.
The Three Lions made a roaring start to their World Cup campaign as they registered a 4-2 win against Croatia, with the team’s captain, Harry Kane, scoring a brace. Jude Bellingham and Marcus Rashford also found the back of the net in the team’s opener.
A win against Ghana can help England seal top spot at Gillette Stadium on Tuesday.
“I am a very happy and very lucky coach because they arrived with this mindset, so I didn’t have to get them in the mindset,” Tuchel said. “They arrived with it.
“Now it is the difficulty to keep them in this mindset. A very famous conductor gave the quote ‘he doesn’t want to disturb the music and he doesn’t want to disturb the musicians.’ So that’s basically what we try to do in the coaching team.
“We don’t disturb the players, we don’t disturb the match. We just encourage them to play with freedom, especially in the attacking position.
“It is quite impressive at the moment buys into the idea of defending together. That’s what we did well in the second half, push out constantly into a high press. That’s what we’ll try tomorrow.
“The game will play out in itself. We can’t predict what’s happening. I predict a little bit of a different game than Croatia because of the different approach, but who knows? We have to be ready to find answers to any question that is asked tomorrow.”
Tuchel revealed he had a fully-fit squad to pick from after Bukayo Saka joined full training last weekend.
“Everyone’s available,” the England coach said. “Everyone was in training. Bukayo is getting better and better. He’s more and more free in movements. He feels no more pain.
“He was able to do both our training sessions the last two days on highest level, so he’s ready to go without telling you if he will start or come from the bench.”
England will look to come up with a collective effort against Ghana.
