Thomas Tuchel made Wembley deep in thinking about similar themes if he had discussed that had thought a little more than a week ago.
The focus was on the reintroduction of Jordan Henderson when Tuchel called the first 26 men of the new Dawn of England, but the important pieces of his opening weeks in this course were packed in discussions about styles and identity.
Tuchel wants his team to act as an embodiment of the Premier League, with more thrust and risk, more energy to excite – even if the paper planes flying around Wembley suggest that this is a far way.
He says that players will receive an emergency course in achieving the optimum before the World Cup of next year.
One camp down, five to go for America. Tuchel insists that he has learned a lot from the break in March – zero on Trots players for the shirt spent after fourteen days spent by hammering the need for Greater Spirit.
Learned a lot despite pedestrian victories on Albania and Latvia, he says.
Speed up it
Tuchel wore frustration a considerable amount during the 180 minutes, most of which were spent on the edge of its technical area. He claimed that those moments are only volatile, but it was striking to see him express his demands on even the oldest players, including Harry Kane.
The German does not sound like a coach who believes that his attacking players and midfielders think quickly enough to unlock defenses.
In these two games, which takes low blocks apart – not something that will encounter England on the largest stage – but the starting point remains against the best: you only get a small window that has to take it.
“You see an opportunity and you feel that the players don't see it,” said Tuchel. 'Twice [on Monday] I was a bit frustrated because I felt that there was a position around Harry and that we did not take this opportunity to catch them unorganized.
'For short seconds you are frustrated and push the players again. We have to learn from each other. It is the first time I have coached most of these players. I have to understand how they behave, what they like, how they behave under stress, what they do out of it. '
Against Latvia, six of the start XI of England had a 100 percent pass only during the break. Did they take sufficient risks? Tuchel would probably not claim.
The blueprint
England will be shown that the third goal, the Ebereechi Eze, was again deflected by their manager. It is undoubtedly cut in Sint -George's Park in June, because it is exactly what he wants ahead.
Four passes, all measured and easy in their version. Then a forward running to his husband and scored. Inside their own box with Marc Guehi to Ezri Konsa, the middle halves plays a two, and it goes halfway to Phil Foden.
Foden notes that Eze has a channel to come across and is being beaten calmly. Eze does the rest, a first international goal – although it is possible on another day to be credited to a Latvian defender.
It looked easy. And it was good to see Foden involved after becoming a focus after the Albania game, of which Tuchel said he could have influenced more. England has to use the unique capacity of Foden if they want to cross the line next year.
Limit the wide options
A lot was made during the weekend of the comments about Foden and Marcus Rashford and the idea of Tuchel about what is expected of the broad men can become clearer in June.
The conversation around those positions brought something that the boss under the 21 Let Lee Carsley recently told Mail Sport during an interview. “We have many 10s who can also play wide,” said Carsley. 'Not your Noni [Madueke] Sort creative, with small movements. '
And he is right, England is not blessed with rough and direct wing players. Even Bukayo Saka, who was at Wembley on Monday to see his teammates, is of that kind. Tuchel knows this and will know that his idea about how to get the best from them will have to be adjusted.
The other No. 10s in slightly wider areas – such as Morgan Rogers, such as Cole Palmer, such as Jack Grealish and to a lesser extent such as Anthony Gordon and Rashford – can still be explosive, it is just how best to provoke that.
Food to Thougent
The children did well. Myles Lewis-Skelly went from someone who was not 100 percent sure to call a reverse full back and a crucial gear in the structure of his second performance alone.
It gave Tuchel a look at another setup that Jude Bellingham released without a second No. 6 next to Declan Rice. Morgan Rogers benefited from that.
And the performance of the Aston Villaman against Latvia certainly also asked some nice questions. A lively rogers opens the game for England and the areas in which he can improve the team were already noticeable.
Rogers, a difficult dribbler in tight spaces despite his frame, ran through three challenges in the last third during a tight first half. His options were to photograph or try to find Kane. He took the last but got the time, and as soon as he is established more, he will probably continue with the run and shoots.
Traditional English
Assistant -head coach Anthony Barry is no stranger to shoot to the edge of the dugout when England has a corner. That is his domain, an area in which he excelled in earlier jobs, and the back room team will be enthusiastic about the potential of set pieces.
Then Burn was selected three times from corners on Friday evening and England should have found the net of one. And on Monday both Konsa and Bellingham closed from a corner – Bellingham hit Rashford with a head – and Rice's deliveries were constantly the longest men.
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