Apart from a few exceptions, including perhaps another Manchester City player in John Stones, Tuchel has shown that reputation means little over form.<\/p>\n
If standards drop there is a line of players waiting to take advantage.<\/p>\n
Tuchel was always going to take Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham, even though the England coach has expressed some doubts in the past.<\/p>\n
Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers, who netted Aston Villa’s third goal in their 3-0 Europa League triumph over Freiburg, has been trusted by Tuchel throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n
But Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, the joint top English scorer in the Premier League this season with 14 goals, has not done enough to get on the plane.<\/p>\n
Gibbs-White has won six England caps, but not featured since the 3-0 friendly win over Wales in October. <\/p>\n
It may be telling that his only competitive appearances under Tuchel came in the two World Cup qualifiers against minnows Andorra.<\/p>\n
Despite scoring six goals in his past six club matches, it has not changed the coach’s mind.<\/p>\n
The winner looks like being Arsenal’s Eberechi Eze, who has played consistently well on the ball even if the stats might not show it.<\/p>\n
Seven goals and two assists in the Gunners’ Premier League title-winning campaign does not seem impressive – but he netted three goals in six World Cup qualifiers for Tuchel.<\/p>\n
Eze sat out the March friendlies through injury, opening the door for Foden and Palmer to force their way into Tuchel’s plans.<\/p>\n
England drew 1-1 with Uruguay and lost 1-0 to Japan, both hugely uninspiring performances.<\/p>\n
So Eze’s absence only served to prove to Tuchel just how important he could be in offering something different to Bellingham and Rogers.<\/p>\n
Eze is a player who could add pace and unpredictability, to change the way the team is playing.<\/p>\n
At one stage Foden and Palmer would be predicted to be starters, not even alternative options like Eze.<\/p>\n
Now they have to live with the reality that they are not deemed good enough, on form at least, for the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apart from a few exceptions, including perhaps another Manchester City player in John Stones, Tuchel has shown that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-657360","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\/657360","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=657360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}