He said: “It’s the reality of end of the season and the end of March; the reality of having players in European matches and more than just one competition with all the cups going on.”<\/p>\n
Tuchel picked an expanded 35-man squad for the Uruguay and Japan games at Wembley.<\/p>\n
He split his players into two camps across the fixtures, the first made up primarily of fringe players and the second of more regular players.<\/p>\n
“We have players in camp that have already played more minutes than last season, so there is some concern,” said Tuchel.<\/p>\n
“The players needed and deserved the mental break from football. We could see the energy with which they came back into camp and to reconnect now in the new environment.<\/p>\n
“We want them to perform in their clubs, but the reality is it’s our last camp before we leave to America, so we want to reconnect to our principles.<\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing but I’m not upset with the players. I’m not angry.<\/p>\n
“I got the feeling that everyone was desperate to come. Some of the injured players even stayed to do their treatment. That shows they want to be around the group.<\/p>\n
“No-one left straight away. It’s a good spirit and that’s how it should be.”<\/p>\n
The World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico runs from 11 June to 19 July.<\/p>\n
England will play friendlies against New Zealand and Costa Rica in June.<\/p>\n
They open their World Cup campaign against Croatia on 17 June and face Ghana on 23 June and Panama on 27 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: “It’s the reality of end of the season and the end of March; the reality of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-574500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}