Absolute tactical idiocy by Tuchel. Argentina have far too much quality: if you allow them to have as many free shots from 20 meters as they want, one (or more) of them will go in. 🏴-🇦🇷
UPDATE: someone writing in to the Guardian made my point at greater length:
England didn’t just go defensive, they sat in their box. This wasn’t a Ghana-style immaculately coached shutting off of all passing lanes, this was a stand in a line and see if a team can score. Fernandez had had three previous shots not closed down from that sort of range. At some point he was going to beat Pickford. Argentina had done exactly that corner routine twice before. Argentina had been allowed to cross the ball in multiple times from exactly that area and had hit both posts and Pickford had made two really good saves. Against Norway, Tuchel was angry because England weren’t repetitive enough; well. against Argentina they allowed the same two patterns of play over and over and over again. What did they expect?