Tuchel to maintain Southgate's proven penalty shootout strategy

In the long arc of England's footballing identity, few wounds ran deeper than the penalty shootout—a ritual that once seemed almost designed to break them. Now, on the eve of a World Cup knockout match in Atlanta, new manager Thomas Tuchel has chosen inheritance over reinvention, preserving the methodical framework Gareth Southgate built to transform England from perennial shootout victims into something closer to practitioners of a craft. It is a quiet but telling act of institutional trust: the belief that what was built with care and humility is worth carrying forward.