England manager Thomas Tuchel has revealed that his team will follow Gareth Southgate’s penalty shoot-out blueprint at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Tuchel’s side face DR Congo in their first knockout game of the tournament on Wednesday, a scenario that opens up the potential for a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n
The match from Atlanta at 17:00 BST is live on BBC One and the iPlayer.<\/p>\n
Prior to Southgate’s appointment as England manager in 2016, the national team had a poor record in tournament shoot-outs – winning just one of seven.<\/p>\n
But under Southgate, England took their penalty preparations to a new level which resulted in the team winning three out of four shoot-outs.<\/p>\n
Tuchel had confirmed the team would continue with the processes established by Southgate.<\/p>\n
“The FA has a programme that has been in place for years and we follow the programme,” Tuchel said.<\/p>\n
“We are prepared. We have a process, the players have a process.”<\/p>\n
Despite the plan, Tuchel also added a note of caution.<\/p>\n
“I think it is difficult to simulate the situation (of a penalty shoot-out),” he said.<\/p>\n
“I heard Thierry Henry say he can’t remember the walk from the halfway line to the penalty spot in his first penalty shoot out for France – you cannot train that.”<\/p>\n
Asked if the players will be given the option to take a penalty, Tuchel replied: “We know who takes them and we know the order but we don’t know who finishes the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England manager Thomas Tuchel has revealed that his team will follow Gareth Southgate’s penalty shoot-out blueprint at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-736153","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\/736153","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=736153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}