{"id":810792,"date":"2026-07-19T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:57:10","slug":"kane-says-tuchel-will-learn-a-lot-from-england-pressures-after-exit-to-argentina-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810792\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane says Tuchel will \u2018learn a lot\u2019 from England pressures after exit to Argentina | England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Kane has backed Thomas Tuchel<\/a> to learn from England\u2019s World Cup semi-final defeat against Argentina and believes they must use the forthcoming Nations League campaign to gain experience of playing against the top teams.<\/p>\n

Kane was an unused substitute as England sealed third place with an entertaining 6-4 victory against France<\/a> on Saturday \u2013 their best finish at a World Cup on foreign soil. Tuchel, who signed a contract extension before the tournament, has been criticised heavily for his tactics against Argentina<\/a> when he opted to switch to a back five to try to defend a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Kane admitted England<\/a> had fallen short against Lionel Scaloni\u2019s side but described the environment Tuchel has created since succeeding Gareth Southgate in 2025 as \u201cthe best England group I\u2019ve been a part of in terms of togetherness\u201d.<\/p>\n

The captain said: \u201cI know there are a lot of questions after the other night. We have to process it as players. I\u2019m sure the manager will. It\u2019s his first major tournament. He\u2019ll learn a lot from the players, the situations, the pressures, the travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are also a lot of things as players we can learn from the other night. For now it\u2019s just trying to process everything. We had a lot of good things, a lot of tough situations we overcame. The group is incredible, the best England group I\u2019ve been a part of in terms of togetherness. The boss was a big part of creating that as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cFans are going to be angry and we understand it. It\u2019s a major tournament and that\u2019s why you dream so big. When it doesn\u2019t go your way you have to take the criticism. We\u2019re all willing to do that, to dare to reach the biggest goal of all. We know over the next two years until we\u2019re facing that situation again there is always going to be a question mark. It\u2019s something we have to take and use as motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

England missed out on facing regular top-class opposition in the buildup to the World Cup<\/a> after being relegated from the top Nations League group in 2022 under Southgate. They were promoted in 2024 and will face Spain, Croatia and Czechia, starting with a rematch of the Euro 2024 final against Luis de la Fuente\u2019s side on 26 September at Wembley. After beating France \u2013 albeit in a largely meaningless game \u2013 Kane thinks England must take the competition seriously if they are to thrive in tournaments.<\/p>\n

Defeat to an established opponent was a familiar feeling for England. Photograph: Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last 30 minutes of Argentina is not the team we want to be,\u201d he said. \u201cWe spent a lot of time over the last two years talking about that situation, to attack those moments. The bottom line is we lost anyway. It\u2019s easy to go away and talk about it. We need to get better at actually being in those situations. We can train, play the qualifiers \u2026 I think the Nations League will be big for us, against Spain and Croatia, big teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting used to those big environments and finding our best form against those teams, like we did against France, albeit not in the most competitive match. We have to learn, improve. The coach will have improved from these learnings. I can talk as much as I want but ultimately it\u2019s about showing it next time we\u2019re in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kane has been on the losing side in two World Cup semi-finals and two European Championship<\/a> finals and he believes Tuchel is the man to help England to make the final step.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe enthusiasm he has, the emotion he brings, the tactical experience he has \u2026 it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re going to get it right every time. We want to get it right on the biggest occasions and he expects that from himself as well. He\u2019s a fantastic coach. He not only gave the players belief but he gave the country belief that it was our year. That is why it hurts even more than other years because everyone believed we were going all the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has to process it. He has to process it himself. We\u2019re still in that grieving stage, the emotional stage, and we\u2019ll be in that for the next few weeks. It won\u2019t be until the next camp where you think about what the future holds and what the next target is. We\u2019ll have conversations as captain and manager and with other teammates and staff, to see where we can be better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane has backed Thomas Tuchel to learn from England\u2019s World Cup semi-final defeat against Argentina and believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-810792","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\/810792","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=810792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}