Thomas Tuchel urges England to play without fear after claiming they were "afraid" in a scathing assessment of their run to the Euro 2024 final under his predecessor Gareth Southgate. Tuchel will take charge of England for the first time when they face Albania at Wembley on Friday in their opening World Cup qualifier.
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00:00Watching the Euros I felt tension and pressure on the shoulders of the players and it felt
00:14to me that they were playing for not to lose and not to have even more pressure added maybe
00:21in the home country than the excitement to maybe make something special happen and I
00:27think we need to turn this around because as you said we have so many experienced players,
00:33so many players who won the trophies with their clubs and I think we have every right
00:38to be self-confident.