Tend to agree with Siderite’s musings on this one. Definitely on Tuchel on the whole but more complex than just on all on him. Yes, his subs backfired but players bottled it too. And ultimately, the quality is not up to Spain or France. I was pretty confident they’d beat Argentina, and up to the first goal, I think that was looking valid. We can be forgiven for believing they’d push on for a second goal the way they’d been approaching games up to that point. The amount of space the World’s best player had to run riot was criminal. As Messi said afterwards, it felt like they were giving up so they took the game to them. Again, that’s on the players too, not just Tuchel.
