‘Gutted’ England star Marc Guehi hits out at Three Lions’ negative approach to disastrous World Cup exit – as under-fire boss Thomas Tuchel feels the heat for nightmare second-half substitutes

England star Marc Guehi has hit out at England’s negative approach after boss Thomas Tuchel came under fire following the Three Lions’ spectacular capitulation in the World Cup semi-final.

Anthony Gordon had opened the scoring in the 55th minute after the Three Lions had endured a harrowing first half in which midfield stars such as Jude Bellingham and Elliot Anderson were repeatedly targeted with fouls by the Argentinian players.

But with 10 minutes plus injury time left in the game, Thomas Tuchel made a series of defensive changes that left little room for England to expand the goal area.

Enzo Fernandez scored the equalizing goal in the 85th minute, while England took further penalties when Lautaro Martinez sent his injury-time effort into the back of the net.

However, while Tuchel was strongly criticized by voices outside the camp, Guehi was one of those in the team who suggested England’s approach was not right for the situation.

“When we went 1-0 up, it was like we were just trying to hold on, which is not enough at this level, so I was gutted,” the Manchester City defender told BBC Sport after the final whistle.

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‘We should have continued. We had to keep pushing. ‘I felt like we had scored and the mentality was: Come back, defend.’

Tuchel then brought on Marcus Rashford and Ivan Toney as the game went into extra time, but it was too little, too late for England to force extra time and grab a potential winner.

When asked if this was the team that could eventually win the British silver medal, Guehi continued to give a lackluster number.

‘I don’t know. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to think about the future right now.

‘There’s just disappointment right now. This is everything.’

Following his defeat, Tuchel defended his decision-making and suggested his critics would have had a different view on an alternative outcome.

“If things don’t go well, it’s easy to say it’s wrong,” Tuchel told the BBC, later suggesting England had fallen behind ahead of the change.

‘We tried to help the players. We accepted immediately. Since the differences were so obvious, we decided to go to the back five.

‘Immediately after our goal, we missed too many crosses and positions without making any substitutions. ‘We tried to help but the responsibility was on the coach.’

Between Gordon’s opener and Enzo Fernandez’s leveler, England had just 12 percent of the ball.

“We couldn’t get out,” Tuchel said. ‘Of course we wanted to score the second goal, but I didn’t think changing players in attack would work.

‘We stayed in 4-4-2, but we became passive, we couldn’t win the ball, we couldn’t keep the ball. This was not a structure issue.

‘We didn’t change anything after the goal, but the match changed completely. I understand that these discussions were obvious and the other coaches understood it better after the game.’

Among those speaking out against Tuchel were Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney; He claimed that his tactics had ‘cost’ England the meeting with Spain in New York.

While World Cup-winning Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas described his coaching as ‘cowardly’, Chris Sutton did not hesitate to speak out, describing it as the former Chelsea manager’s ‘coaching disaster’.

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