‘People in the pubs will like this’: Tuchel keen for England to entertain at World Cup

• Manager said second-half performance was ‘rewarding’

• England’s next group game is against Ghana on 23 June

Thomas Tuchel said he wanted his England team to entertain the nation and that he pictured the scenes in the pubs as his players took the handbrake off to power past ­Croatia 4-2 in their World Cup opener on Wednesday.

England were passive in the first half, too deep, the connections lacking. They entered the interval at 2-2, Harry Kane’s goals cancelled out by a pair of soft concessions that were in keeping with the team’s openness.