Speaking to BBC Sport, Thomas Tuchel said:<\/p>\n
How have you prepared with the storms? “Haven’t to be honest (prepared for storms), I’ve been in the hotel all day. We’ve adapted as it’s been coming. We will see, let’s wait and see when any possible delays then prepare for what’s coming.<\/p>\n
Altitude had an impact? “I was a bit out of speed, maybe it was the altitude or it was tension. I didn’t sleep so well in the first night, the second was easier. The first 15-20 minutes we will feel it, that’s the reports from other teams, after that we’ll be fine.<\/p>\n
How important is Jarell Quansah? “It’s a side where they’re very fluid and take a lot of awkward positions, turn then accelerate the game, it’s not so easy to come out in the 10 position with the striker. Jarell is a key player for us, he plays in a back three normally. Hopefully, our structure allows us.<\/p>\n
Why Saka and Gordon start: “Why not? Last game, Noni and Rashy started. For me it was clear we do a rotation, they’re top players, we need all 16 to push us over the line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to BBC Sport, Thomas Tuchel said: How have you prepared with the storms? “Haven’t to be honest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,70426,596,369865,102335,85,2640,124617],"class_list":["post-781682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-england-football-team","tag-football","tag-mexico-football-team","tag-reece-james","tag-sports","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781682","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=781682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}