00:01Hi, Thomas. Do you think in the fullness of time you, the players, supporters, can reflect on the tournament given
00:08you finished third and it's the best finish in 1966, look back at the tournament and believe it's a success?
00:17And also, can I just check on Kobi Mainu's situation, please?
00:20You just said it yourself, it's the first medal since 60 years, the first World Cup on foreign soil, so
00:25I hope that the players can be proud on that in some time.
00:31We are fiercely competitive, so we almost don't allow ourselves to be proud on third place because 18 months ago
00:41we set the highest goal,
00:44we set us the highest dream to chase and we were very, very ambitious with our dream to make it
00:53to the final and win the World Cup,
00:55so it's very, very painful if you miss out. The pain will stay for a while, like I said yesterday,
01:01but will go away, the scar will stay.
01:04This is how it is in high-level sport. You cannot worship this performance, this mentality today high enough.
01:14We had one day less to prepare, we have thousands and thousands of kilometres more than the opponent in our
01:19bones and bodies.
01:21We come from altitude, we come from the heat over time, we come from playing with ten men and again
01:27and again we found a way.
01:29Again, it was normal for us to show the mentality, it was normal for us to suffer.
01:35There's a lot to be proud of and still a part of us will not be fully happy because we
01:40had the highest ambition and that's basically the situation.
01:45Kobe was injured last training session yesterday morning and had a sharp pain in the back within the training and
01:58was not ready to play.
02:01Do you feel the criticism of you this week has been unfair and has tonight answered some of that doubt?
02:15The press conference yesterday felt as if we went out in group stage without a win, to be very honest.
02:22And 24 hours later we have the biggest success in 60 years.
02:26So, to put the low, to take the low not too low and the high not too high is what
02:40we try, even for us and for the team.
02:44I think the low and the drama about what happened against Argentina was too low.
02:52But listen, that's part of it and the best thing you can do is react on the pitch and get
03:07the next win.
03:08Everything else is just talking and talking doesn't get you points and talking doesn't get you wins.
03:14So, you have to endure it, you have to hold it and be strong and keep believing.
03:22And I'm glad that we showed the reaction, we wanted that reaction and it's very impressive.
03:29Hi Thomas, can I just ask you about the performance of Bukayo Saka?
03:33He obviously scored a hat-trick, said he'd have liked to have played even more in the World Cup,
03:38but insisted he was fit for the World Cup. How do you assess how he performed today?
03:43He was excellent. Bukayo is a key player for me. He was ready to go in the World Cup.
03:49I felt still the responsibility as a coach and with a history given where he came from to take it
04:00slow with Bukayo.
04:02But he started quite some matches and it was a tough decision for me to leave him out of the
04:10semi-final.
04:11I had the feeling after the Norway match that Morgan Rogers had something special to give to us with his
04:19physicality and his body in the match against Argentina.
04:23We had him warm up several times against Argentina. We were ready to change but the game became so crazy
04:30that we in the end opted for a different option.
04:33But nothing has changed during the World Cup for me.
04:37Bukayo is a fantastic teammate, a fantastic football player, a key player for us and that will not change.
04:43He showed it again today and I'm happy for him, happy for us. It was excellent.
04:49Thomas, I know you wanted more here but the way you seem to react out there, the way your players
04:55seem to react even to getting those medals,
04:57do you think as a group you needed that and do you think moving forward it will just help you
05:03move forward?
05:04This game will help us for sure, even if a part will never allow you to fully celebrate the bronze
05:10medal.
05:12But I think this is a very important one. Jordan Henderson gave a very impressive speech today in the hotel
05:22to put this in the right frame and put everyone in the right mindset.
05:26So he helped unbelievably today. That was very emotional and very, very impressive to put this game into perspective.
05:36And I said yesterday here, we want to close this gap. We feel that there's still a gap open, there's
05:42still a gap too close to the top three teams who are ahead of us in the world ranking.
05:48And that starts with today. It was a big shout because there's a lot of world-class players in the
05:56attack on the other side.
05:57Like I said, they come from a less demanding schedule physically. They have one more day, so it was a
06:04big shout.
06:05But again, we could rely on what we built. This team built something very, very special in the last seven
06:12weeks.
06:13And we will never negotiate on that. I still stand by my words that we need to play better football
06:18under pressure.
06:20We need to manage games better under pressure. We need to take better decisions under pressure.
06:25We need to defend more economically, more disciplined. If you remember first half against Croatia, for example, when we scored
06:352-1, we went into a deep, deep, deep block, almost a back six, a back seven conceded with the
06:41last shot.
06:41So these are exactly the moments where we need to be better and understand how to be better. So that's
06:47our job for the next steps.
06:51Now it's important that the players take the holiday. The season will start very soon and Nations League will come
06:56and will be the next important competition for us.
07:00Do you mind just quickly elaborating on what Jordan said?
07:04What Jordan said? Yeah, I will not say, but he put it just into perspective because he was part of
07:08this match eight years ago, I think. Is that correct?
07:12And it was very emotional and then he put it into perspective. What you might feel in the very moment,
07:19that you might give in into the feeling of,
07:22yeah, but, I don't want to be here, yeah, but, yeah, but. And he just took all of that away
07:27because he said that it means the world in the end.
07:31And that he would give anything if he hadn't done a broken arm to be part again in this match
07:37and that you never know,
07:39that you never know whenever do you get a World Cup match, an official match for England.
07:44So he said it much, much better than me and more emotional, but he, it was, was very impressive.
07:51And yeah, he set the tone and the mindset for this match today. Yeah.
07:56Hello, Pierre from L'Equipe. Can I ask you what you said to Kylian Mbappé at the end of the
08:01game, a player that you know very well?
08:03You speak to him?
08:04Yeah, we had three talks today, like we met before. It was, it's quite a long walk to the field.
08:10So I met, there were a lot of players in the other dressing room that I already trained seven of
08:15them.
08:15So it was a bit like, it was, it was very nice, but it was a bit weird, very nice.
08:21And we had a chat, just a friendly chat, if everything is fine.
08:26And then at halftime, of course, he was, he was not happy and said it's a crazy match already.
08:32And then in between second half, he said, if we are still in the dressing room, you know, and it
08:38was 4-3.
08:38And yeah, so it was just a friendly exchange. It was a pleasure to have him as a, as a
08:46player.
08:46And you can just see all the quality that he shows.
08:51Felipe Cardenas with The Athletic. Do you feel like this is a step towards perhaps winning back the trust of
08:58the English supporters?
08:59And is that something that's important to you?
09:02I don't think that we lost the trust or me, I don't think that I lost the trust.
09:08Whatever happened in these 30 minutes against Argentina or maybe 45 minutes in the second half against Argentina,
09:15where we came to passive, whatever happens, why it happened, whatever happened in the last 10 minutes, we were, we
09:21were close.
09:22But it's my job to take decisions.
09:26My decisions, my interventions, my substitutions, the change of, the change of structure did not have the effect that I
09:32wanted to.
09:33So I have to live with this.
09:35It's very painful for me because I did it in good faith and I did it with a clear plan
09:40and a clear idea behind it.
09:42It didn't work out.
09:44So I will, I take the blame and of course the responsibility.
09:49But I think, I strongly think and I strongly believe that we build more, that we build more in this
09:55World Cup than we can lose in 30 minutes.
10:00And me personally, in a decision that turns out not to be effective.
10:07I said it yesterday, the pain will stay with me for and foremost.
10:12The scar will stay with me and with the players and no one else.
10:14And yeah, in the end, we need to win the trust on a, not daily basis in international football, but
10:21in seven, eight weeks, we're back together.
10:23It's nation's league.
10:24We need to win the trust and we need to gain the trust and rebuild the trust and whatever.
10:30You, you, you have it, but it's never a given.
10:32So this is anyway, normal in, in high level sport that you have to prove yourself.
10:38You have to prove a point every single time when you compete.
10:41Okay, two to finish there.
10:42Good evening, Thomas.
10:43Congratulations.
10:44It was Didier Deschamps last game for France this evening.
10:47What kind of message do you want to send to him?
10:49And do you hope to lead for England as many games as he did for France?
10:54Almost 200.
10:56I didn't feel like that yesterday on press conference.
11:00No, for Didier Deschamps, I can only have the kindest words and the highest praise.
11:07What a player.
11:08What a winner.
11:09What a man.
11:10What a, what a, what a personality.
11:12What a coach.
11:13Uh, eight years ago in the, in the, in the, in the final, won it.
11:17Four years ago in the final Nations League final.
11:20He came here, uh, blew the whole tournament away.
11:22I think all of us before the semi-final were sure that France is one team in, in the final.
11:29So they came, uh, played as, as favorites, played like favorites.
11:34Um, so, so impressive.
11:37Um, and at the same time, so humble, so friendly, so open-minded towards me.
11:43I was never, never near that kind of a player, never near that kind of a response, uh, that personality.
11:51Uh, he didn't let me feel that for one second when, when I was coach in Paris.
11:56And, and since then, it's such a, such a nice, such a, such a beautiful character.
12:03Um, like I said, very humble, some very ambitious, uh, very, very kind and, um, absolute role model, highest level.
12:12Last question.
12:13Um, good night, Tomas Tuchel, Andrea Llanos for Deportes Total USA.
12:16I wanted to ask you, you scored 20 goals, the most in the tournament, along with France.
12:21Does that surprise you?
12:22And it, it is something that you look on for the future Nations League, as you said, and...
12:26Well, the six, the six helped, the six helped today.
12:30Um, yeah, it surprised me a little at, at the moment.
12:37It surprised me a little, so it's just another very positive thing that we can add to the list.
12:41And I, I think, and, and makes me again believe that there is still a lot of trust.
12:47Uh, and that we are on the right way.
12:50Like I said, we have stuff to improve, but we have, we have quality.
12:53I think we could have, we could have made more, for example, out of our set pieces, but we didn't
12:59win enough corners, especially in the last matches, because we didn't spend enough time in the opponent's half with the
13:05ball.
13:05So, we were not clinical enough in, in, in, in following our attacks to win, to win, uh, set pieces
13:11and, and, and corners, because we can be very, very dangerous with that on top of it.
13:16But it's a nice thing to build on, um, a nice add-on to, to our medal today and to,
13:22to the, to the place that we achieved.
13:25Um, yeah, another thing to, to build on and to, to, yeah, to bring into the analysis of the tournament.
13:31Thank you very much, Cheers.
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