‘I take responsibility’published at 09:56 BST
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England boss Thomas Tuchel when asked who takes responsibility for the semi-final loss:
“I take responsibility.
“Listen, if it’s easier, if someone takes the blame, I take the blame. It’s no problem – this is the deal that you sign up for.
“I understand it, and you have every right to do so. But I will not engage in this kind of game because for me there is no one to blame.
“If you need someone to blame, I take the responsibility. I’m the head coach.
“We got a lot of problems in the 4-4-2. We couldn’t solve the problems later in the other structure. We have to live with this. It’s our pain. It’s our pain, my pain and the players’ pain. We feel the most pain of all. It is our scar that we carry now.
“It is a very painful defeat, and we have to live with this defeat, first and foremost. Not the critics, not the experts, not our family members who suffer as well with us and want only the best for us, but it’s basically us.
“We will overcome it. We will use it. We will have a reaction, and that starts from tomorrow. We have a gap to close, and we are aware of that, and that’s where the focus is.”
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