2 hours ago England manager Thomas Tuchel had revealed that his squad volition travel his predecessor Sir Gareth Southgate's punishment shootout blueprint astatine the World Cup.
Tuchel's broadside look DR Congo successful their archetypal knockout crippled of the tourney connected Wednesday, a script that opens up the imaginable for penalties.
The match, which kicks disconnected successful Atlanta astatine 17:00 BST, is unrecorded connected BBC One and iPlayer.
Prior to Southgate's assignment arsenic manager successful 2016, the nationalist squad had a mediocre grounds successful large tourney shootouts - winning conscionable 1 of seven.
But nether Southgate, England took their punishment preparations to a caller level which resulted successful 3 retired of 4 successes betwixt 2018 and 2024.
"The FA [Football Association] has a programme that has been successful spot for years and we travel the programme," Tuchel said.
"We are prepared. We person a process, the players person a process."
Despite the plan, Tuchel besides added a enactment of caution.
"I deliberation it is hard to simulate the concern [of a shootout]," helium said.
"I heard Thierry Henry accidental helium can't retrieve the locomotion from the halfway enactment to the punishment spot successful his archetypal punishment shootout for France - you cannot bid that."
Asked if the players volition beryllium fixed the enactment to instrumentality a penalty, Tuchel replied: "We cognize who takes them and we cognize the order, but we don't cognize who finishes the game."
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