Tuchel blasts England's lack of quality and energy

Thomas Tuchel criticised England's "lack of urgency, deficiency of prime and deficiency of energy" aft watching them scrape past Andorra 1-0 successful FIFA World Cup qualifying.

England were held by a squad ranked 173rd successful the satellite until Harry Kane redirected a walk from Noni Madueke into the apical of the nett successful the 50th minute.

Tuchel is the archetypal England manager to triumph his archetypal 3 games successful complaint without conceding a goal, but helium did not effort to enactment immoderate gloss connected a mediocre display.

"We are not blessed of course," helium said. "We mislaid the momentum wholly aft the archetypal 25 minutes and couldn't get it back.

"We ended up successful a play that wasn't bully capable with a deficiency of urgency and a deficiency of prime and a deficiency of energy."

England skipper Kane was besides unhappy with the display.

"We request to beryllium amended for sure," Kane said postmatch. "It's not 1 that galore volition remember, and we had bully spells, but we instrumentality the 3 points and determination on.

"We kept giving it distant and that gave them a spot of assurance and energy. At 1-0 with 5 to 10 minutes to spell you person to beryllium careful."

England stay apical of Group K with 9 points aft wins against Albania and Latvia.

England big Senegal successful a affable connected Tuesday.

Information from Reuters and Associated Press was utilized successful this report.