the next day to apologise unprompted<\/a>, with Frank insisting that there was \u201cno disrespect meant\u201d and that they were \u201cjust frustrated\u201d.<\/p>\nTuchel, 52, has kept faith with Spence, and said on Saturday evening that he did not consider not calling him up for this month\u2019s camp. But Tuchel revealed that he has spoken to Spence about the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t like it,\u201d Tuchel said, ahead of Sunday afternoon\u2019s final World Cup qualifier away in Albania. \u201cBecause the players know they are not only national players when they are ten days in camp. They are always national players, and the standard of behaviour is always important.\u201d<\/p>\n
England have a chance to complete their qualification campaign with an eighth win out of eight in Tirana. But Tuchel has also reminded his players not to pick up any red cards that could leave them facing a suspension when the World Cup starts in June.<\/p>\n
Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo picked up a needless red card in their qualification defeat in Dublin earlier this week. He is currently waiting to hear the length of his suspension for the offence. Wayne Rooney was banned for the first two games of Euro 2012 after getting sent off in a qualifier against Montenegro in October 2011.<\/p>\n
Tuchel will tell his players before the game not to get sent off. \u201cIt is important, I\u2019m aware of it and we will talk about it,\u201d Tuchel said. \u201cNo red cards please.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuchel even said that because England have already qualified for the World Cup, that it would make more sense to avoid a red card and suspension, even it left England defensively exposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we are through, if we are in a position with the last man, and if the player holds the shirt he gets the red card, if there\u2019s a doubt then it would be smarter not to do it,\u201d Tuchel said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to make it too big a subject because then you have a cloud above you. But if you have the choice: don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
England will be without Ezri Konsa in Tirana, who has not travelled to Albania after feeling tightness in his calf. Marc Guehi will also miss the game having been unable to shake off a foot injury he sustained before the international camp. This means that Dan Burn or Jarell Quansah will likely partner John Stones at centre-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel spoke to Djed Spence to remind him of the responsibilities of being an England player after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9333,6090,403,99,4899],"class_list":["post-294912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-england","tag-international-football","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294912","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=294912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}