Thomas Tuchel rued the England errors which stopped his side from ending Spain’s remarkable 39-game unbeaten run, admitting his players were ‘punished’ at Wembley.The first two goals conceded by the Three Lions came directly after Manchester City duo Marc Guehi and Nico O’Reilly each gave away the ball respectively. Tuchel also described the defending for Spain’s winner from substitute Mikel Oyarzabal as not good enough.England’s manager did concede his players – and particularly those from City – could have been distracted by the bombshell news surrounding their club.When asked if it had been a distraction, Tuchel said: ‘Not for me but I can imagine maybe for the Manchester City players. For me, not. I will not comment on that because it is an ongoing court case. I didn’t make it a topic. It was not a topic for me.’The players have more time than me, they have one training session, so for sure, I can imagine that they talk about it. But it’s good that they do. I don’t feel it distracted.’England came from behind to lead Spain at half-time and Harry Kane had the chance to make it 3-1 after Jude Bellingham won a penalty, but Tuchel’s striker crashed his spot-kick into the crossbar. That sparked the beginning of the Spanish comeback. Marc Guehi gifted Spain the early opening goal when he was dispossessed by Lamine Yamal Guehi’s Manchester City team-mate Nico O’Reilly gave the ball away for Spain’s equaliser’We wanted to be the team desperate to beat them,’ Tuchel said. ‘The reality is we lost.’On the defensive mistakes, Tuchel added: ‘It is what it is. It happens. It happened too often and we got punished at the highest level. We made the worst possible start against a team like Spain who love to control the game and play with confidence and on the ball.’It happened. The reaction was OK. It cost us a little confidence, that is normal. We had another two big mistakes in build-up situations and conceded two big chances and survived those chances. ‘We scored the equaliser. We scored the second goal. We could have scored a third goal in the first half. We should absolutely have scored a third one in the second half.’That would have been the decisive punch to get this full momentum and belief. We couldn’t do it. Then unfortunately another technical mistake cost us. Then the momentum shifted again. We conceded one goal from open play which we should absolutely defend better.’The result is not what we wanted. I think we could have won it. We have to live with it, recover from it, learn from it. Do what we did on the same level and reduce and improve our mistakes.’