Chelsea FC boss has blamed the Stamford pitch as one purpose why they went right down to Arsenal on Wednesday night time.
The Blues went 4-2 right down to the Mikel Arteta aspect after some errors in defence and in accordance with the German, the state of the Stamford Bridge enjoying floor contributed majorly to the loss.
“To say the pitch is troublesome to play right here, it possibly appears like an excuse however it’s a very, very troublesome pitch that we have now right here. It’s not in our favour. The ball bounces very awkwardly in entrance of Andreas when he desires to play this ball.
“However nonetheless, we had the identical mistake towards Actual Madrid that value us the subsequent spherical of the Champions League and this one value us the subsequent match. I can’t bear in mind after we received two objectives like this,” Tuchel mentioned after the sport.
The German additional refused accountable any particular person gamers after being requested if he missed Antonio Rudiger in his defence.
“We conceded seven objectives with Toni [Rudiger] towards Brentford and Actual Madrid, that solutions the query. It isn’t about particular person gamers. Defensive efficiency is a workforce efficiency and offensive efficiency is a workforce efficiency,” he added.
Arsenal had led twice solely to be pegged again by Chelsea equalisers within the first interval, however they finally noticed off their London rivals courtesy of second-half objectives from Eddie Nketiah and Bukayo Saka.
