England have scored 20 goals without conceding in qualifying and if they beat Albania and keep a clean sheet they will become the first European side to play at least six qualifiers and win them all without conceding.<\/p>\n
But Tuchel said he has not spoken to his players about the record they could set and his only focus is to continue building towards the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t speak a single word about that,” Tuchel said when asked if he was using the possible achievement as motivation going into England’s final qualifier.<\/p>\n
“We need to get the foundation right to have a chance to have these records.<\/p>\n
“Just by thinking about it or by talking about it, nothing will change.<\/p>\n
“We need to deliver again. The feeling and the trust is absolutely there because I witnessed this in camp. I trust my players to perform again.”<\/p>\n
The match against Albania is the last that England will play this year and will mean there is only one more international break before Tuchel names his squad for the World Cup.<\/p>\n
And he wants his side to deliver a performance that shows the developments made since he officially took charge in January.<\/p>\n
“In general I just hope and I feel the hunger for us to win, and to achieve something is bigger than the fear of losing and the fear of maybe losing a record of clean sheets,” Tuchel said.<\/p>\n
“These things just happen. We are well aware that we put a lot of effort in to defend as a team and it’s only possible to have so many clean sheets because we defend properly as a team, which is the case, but you also need a bit of luck in certain moments.<\/p>\n
“We should not focus too much on what we have to lose. We should be more excited about the next possibility to show our quality and to have another exciting and intense match.”<\/p>\n
Captain Harry Kane said remaining unbeaten without conceding provides extra motivation for players.<\/p>\n
“The last game in an England shirt for the year is always important to win for momentum,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We also know we have qualified and Albania are into the play-offs, but we still have not conceded and I think that is a great motivation.<\/p>\n
“Not conceding any goals through the campaign would be special motivation.<\/p>\n
“It is also about reaching our level, and if we do we feel we can beat any team in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have scored 20 goals without conceding in qualifying and if they beat Albania and keep a clean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-141992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}