Chelsea supervisor Thomas Tuchel has defended his facet following a humiliating 4-1 house defeat to Brentford on Saturday night.
After an uneventful first half, the Blues led early within the second interval via Antonio Rudiger’s long-range strike, however the Bees equalised lower than two minutes later earlier than taking the lead and ultimately profitable the conflict.
Talking after the match, Tuchel mirrored on dropping management of the match throughout a brief interval after getting into entrance after which being unable to get well.
“We misplaced management in 10 minutes, conceded three targets in that point, and misplaced the sport from there,” he mentioned after the sport. “It’s very irritating as a result of we had obtained into the lead via Toni’s aim and we have been in complete management till that time too,”
“It’s very exhausting to create probabilities towards Brentford and as soon as we had that first aim, we stopped defending and gave three targets away in 10 minutes, which may be very untypical and naturally killed the sport right this moment for us,”
The German additionally mentioned his gamers seemed a bit drained after the exhausting worldwide break.
“It was a tricky begin, which isn’t the primary time it’s been like that after a global break, and it took us some time to seek out our rhythm and to seek out full management.
“We lacked vitality and we didn’t do the issues that often make us sturdy. We seemed drained, bodily and mentally drained. It’s an enormous problem to play after the worldwide break however it’s important to get your outcomes proper because the favorite and being at house. We didn’t try this nicely sufficient right this moment,”
The Blues’ subsequent project is a Champions League conflict towards Actual Madrid at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening.
