England boss Thomas Tuchel says his facet will arrive on the World Cup finals subsequent summer time as ‘uunderdogs’ regardless of their current touurnament file.
England reached the semi-finals in Russia in 2018 earlier than shedding to France within the quarter-finals in Qatar.
Gareth Southgate additionally took England to back-to-back Euros finals with out finally lifting a trophy.
However Tuchel, whose facet play Wales in a pleasant on Thursday earlier than dealing with Latvia in a qualifier subsequent Tuesday, says not successful a trophy since 1966 holds England again.
“We’ll arrive as underdogs within the World Cup as a result of we haven’t received it for many years,” he mentioned.
“W we are going to play towards groups who’ve repeatedly received it throughout that point, so we have to arrive as a workforce in any other case now we have no probability.”
England have at the very least reached the quarter-finals of the final 4 tournaments however Tuchel believes they’re underdogs “due to historical past, the local weather and the circumstances”.
“In the event you’ve by no means received Wimbledon, you could be one of many favourites however you aren’t the favorite,” the England boss mentioned.
“You possibly can go and when you come shut, OK, you’re inside the pool, however you aren’t the favorite. It’s simply how it’s.
“There’s Brazil, there may be Argentina, Spain, France they usually simply did it lately.
“It doesn’t imply now we have no probability and we all know very nicely. First we are going to qualify after which we are going to know precisely why we go there.”
The Three Lions may probably safe qualification towards Latvia subsequent week.
