The England -wedding trip of Thomas Tuchel is over. They get worse – and even qualifying for the World Cup is no certainty about this form, writes Craig Hope

He asked England To play with a smile, the locals frowned by benching Morgan Gibbs-White And then spent a large part of the evening with grimaces under the peak of a thinking hood that offered few answers. Thomas TuchelYour honeymoon is over. Dear swap that cap for a crash helmet.

In reality, the honeymoon ended on Saturday with a 1-0 win over Andorra, who was not convincing that it felt more like a defeat. Well, here was a real defeat and a deserved.

It used to be said that England would beat the rest and lose the best. Now they lose to those who populate midfield. Senegal is 19th in the FIFA ranking, a place under Iran. Gareth SouthgateEngland easily defeated both at the 2022 World Cup. But Senegal was too clear in front of the Tuchel side here on the city. Too fast. Too skilled. Simply put, too good.

England can have an excuse, such as Harry Kane Claims, because they are tired at the end of a ‘long, difficult season’. But here is a memory: the World Cup also takes place at the end of a long, difficult season – will you also be tired?

In reality, England has played tired for a long time. The sun does not have to shine to wilt our star names in white. Because everyone tried to illuminate the weight of the sweater – and he did it successfully – it is as if we are back to the days that it is sewn with lead. You look at them and you wonder why it all looks so unjust, such as children who are dropped off at school during the summer holidays.

They really think they can turn it on in 12 months as a tap? Sorry, guys, the reserves will be dry. The idea that everything in the distance is good is an air mirroring. Football is not Netflix. You now put the hard yards in it and those who were covered along the line feel that a bit shorter.

Thomas Tuchel’s English honeymoon is over after a 3-1 home defeat by Senegal

It was said that England would beat the best of the rest – now they lose from the middle

Tuchel had the locals frown by benching Morgan Gibbs-White and had few answers

Harry Kane said that the players of his games were tired after a ‘long, hard season’ – but the World Cup is also at the end of a season

Employees can have all the information they like about the core body temperatures, but if the players of England keep getting so cold, they might as well take a match with the numbers, because the score will surpass science. And why is there an assumption that England goes to Albania and Serbia in their autumn qualifications and will win? The more you see from them, the less sure you get from their direct passage to North America. They get worse, not better.

Tuchel knows so much. He sometimes seemed tormented here. There was many blows above his head in the first half. Loudly clapping. Thunderklapping, almost, the kind that you let look and wonder why it is so grateful if England still has the ball in their own half.

But the bar for improvement was low. The sight of his team came from a dark alley at their own corner flag and in the daylight was pleasant for Tuchel. However, he returned to the Dugout when his players rose a blind rose when a blind rose.

He looked like he wanted to pull his hair out when Declan Rice later played a ball directly from the game, but had to do it with pulling the threads of his cap. He was also not excited when Conor Gallagher ran through the middle and arrived on a fork – pass to the left and Anthony Gordon is in the clear one or choose the picturesque route to the right and ask Bukayo Saka to beat three men. We all looked in piney silence while Saka fell on the third obstacle.

That was ahead, but his greater concerns were in defense. Tuchel mentioned three rightbacks in his team and started none of them in that position on Saturday. He did it this time, and the performance of Kyle Walker at least gave the manager an answer to one of his many questions – that is not up to Kyle Walker.

He has always been too dependent on his pace to dig him out of a hole. When the legs don’t wave as quickly as they ever did, a difficult spirit is exposed. When Senegal equalized in the first half, Walker was caught on his heels – which is not great against Ismaila Sarr, an attacker who only plays on his toes. The best thing that does – and the best at the World Cup, by that time, Walker will be 36.

It is time, you feel, to present the defender with a framed shirt in Wembley, even if that falls a few caps of a century. So there is one positive that comes from this, even if it is negative.

And what about Ivan Toney, introduced late in the 88th minute? He assumes, either trained as a player who spent a season in the Saudi Pro League, or he spits out one of Tuchel’s biometric tablets. The striker was admitted so that the manager could take a good look at him. He should not like what he has seen.

Saying that, he can’t do much of what he has seen in recent days. Tired? That is nothing more than a tired excuse.