'Hungry' England ready for 'beatable' Argentina says Tuchel

It's a big rivalry and it's two big football nations. Like everyone who loves football, everyone who follows the World Cup as a football fan knows about this constellation and knows about what it brings. It's two big football nations. We expect tomorrow an intense match. We expect an emotional match. I expect a match with a lot of momentum swings and everything else would surprise me. I think no, we don't use it as a fuel. We know why we're here. We know what we want. We were never shy of expecting that from us, of saying it, of dreaming it. We are in the semi-finals. We arrived very hungry in the semi-finals. We want to have the next win. We respect our opponent, but we don't dip in in historic events and we don't make it bigger than it is. It's a big football match. It's, like you said, a big occasion. We are very excited, grateful, but very hungry and ready to go. Everyone is fit to start. Everyone was in training except for Turel, who's suspended, and Jordan Henderson. Declan completely back to normal now? Well, yeah. He's ready to start and as good recovered as possible. We want to squeeze the last bit out. We want to take the next step. I like the switch of energy. I like the switch of energy again in our camp. I feel the players are very excited. I feel them very ambitious for this semi-final. No one is satisfied and it's exactly the right mixture to have the performance that we need for tomorrow. We prepare for the best version of Argentina. We expect and hope and demand the best of ourselves tomorrow for a top football match. I think every team in the world is beatable. So is Argentina. So is us. And both teams will try tomorrow. I was thinking about this if we do a proper old-school landmark. I'm not sure if we follow through with this idea, but it crossed my mind. Well, I think everyone knows the spaces and everyone knows the spaces where he wants to show up. It's just like if you analyze the matches, you feel like he sees stuff just earlier than anyone else on the field. It's just like the ball drops to him. He finds the gap. He makes himself this two-meter space for his left foot and then executes the solution on the very highest level. I think we found some patterns in their game, of course, but if you close the patterns, he will find maybe a new one and create a new one. That's his super strength. That's just what it is. It's an exciting setup. It's very unique to play against the reigning champions. It's very unique to play against Leo Messi and his team. It's unique to play with England against Argentina. It's just a big match in a big tournament. You know, sometimes you just go on a bike and you just need a big parking lot and ice cream in your hand for 15 minutes on a bike and then you feel like 15 years old. 15, not 50. You feel like 12 or 13 or 15 years old and you enjoy your evening in a warm summer evening for 15 minutes with ice cream and you reconnect to the beauty of that feeling that we all have inside of us and that's sometimes all it needs. It is an absolute beauty in the magnitude of a match, in the magnitude of an occasion, but me personally, I don't feel it as a burden. I will feel the nerves and the tension tomorrow. That is quite normal, but that just comes normal with these matches.