Tuchel To Channel Star's Intensity

England boss wants Bellingham's fighting spirit to inspire and not intimidate others

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LONDON - England manager Thomas Tuchel said that his mother finds some of Jude Bellingham's antics "repulsive" but he does not want to dim the Real Madrid star's fire.

The German suffered his first defeat in four games as England boss on June 10 when Senegal became the first-ever African side to beat the Three Lions in a 3-1 friendly win.

Bellingham thought he had made it 2-2 late on at Nottingham Forest's City Ground only for the goal to be controversially disallowed before Senegal broke away for a third in stoppage time.

Tuchel had to restrain the midfielder's protests at the decision at full-time and said it is a balancing act to retain the 21-year-old's fight without it bubbling over.

"Sometimes you see the rage, the hunger and the fire and it comes out in a way that can be a bit repulsive, for example, for my mother when she sits in front of the TV," said Tuchel in a wide-ranging interview with radio station talkSPORT on June 11.