Tuchel will stick to Southgate’s penalty planpublished at 13:57 BST
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Sami Mokbel
BBC Sport Senior football correspondent
England manager Thomas Tuchel has revealed that his team will follow Gareth Southgate’s penalty shootout blueprint at the World Cup.
Prior to Southgate’s appointment as England manager in 2016, the national team had a poor record in tournament shootouts – winning just one of seven.
But under Southgate, England took their penalty preparations to a new level which resulted in the team winning three out of four shootouts.
Tuchel has confirmed the team would continue with the processes established by Southgate.
“The FA has a programme that has been in place for years and we follow the programme,” Tuchel said.
“We are prepared. We have a process, the players have a process.”
Tuchel said in the past he has been left unprepared for shootouts, admitting that in 2016 he “forgot” to prepare for the possibility when his Borussia Dortmund side faced Bayern Munich in the DFB Pokal final.
Bayern won 4-3 on penalties, after the match had finished 0-0, with Tuchel having to select the order of his spot-kick takers in the short period after extra-time and before the shootout started.
“A very painful experience and a big, big scar on me, because I felt really, really badly that I had let myself down, so it was the first time. It will never happen again,” he said.
Read more about Southgate’s penalty plan here.
