It was in December, as England’s senior Premier League players started this ongoing schedule of a game every three days, that Thomas Tuchel knew he “had to do something different” for this week’s friendlies against Uruguay and Japan.
He instinctively understood it would be a mistake to just treat it as a normal international camp - an increasingly rare opportunity with a full squad - even if it was the last one before the World Cup. The load would be far too much.
