{"id":137991,"date":"2025-09-06T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137991\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:57:07","slug":"england-2-0-andorra-thomas-tuchels-side-have-arguably-regressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137991\/","title":{"rendered":"England 2-0 Andorra: Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side have &#8216;arguably regressed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took an own goal to break the deadlock after 25 minutes, Andorra defender Christian Garcia heading Noni Madueke&#8217;s cross beyond goalkeeper Iker Alvarez. Declan Rice headed the second from Reece James&#8217; excellent delivery after 67 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The usual caveats apply on these occasions. And there some is merit in them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England did what they had to do, no matter how turgid and uneventful this was. Another step towards the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andorra mounted a rearguard action from the first whistle, assembling a yellow wall of defensive defiance, England recording 83% possession while the visitors barely got out of their own half, leaving keeper Jordan Pickford to mind his own business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuchel will rightly point to the statistic that England have yet to concede a goal in World Cup qualifiers &#8211; but they have barely been tested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the days of racking up eight or nine goals against opponents in competitive international football are largely in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andorra, sandwiched between St Vincent and the Grenadines and Chad in the world standings, will regard a two-goal margin of defeat as close to a moral victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What must be a worry for Tuchel, and it is a concern that has been a consistent thread through his time in charge, is England&#8217;s lack of ideas, inspiration, end product and momentum in their play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took an own goal to break the deadlock after 25 minutes, Andorra defender Christian Garcia heading Noni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-137991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}