Tuchel hints at travel arrangements causing Chelsea’s defeat vs Leeds

Tuchel blamed the journey preparations for Chelsea’s humiliating defeat to Leeds United

Talking to BBC Sport (h/t Metro), talking after his aspect’s horrendous 3-0 defeat by the hands of Leeds United, Chelsea supervisor Thomas Tuchel fairly weirdly blamed the journey preparations main as much as the sport as being one of many contributing components to his group’s poor efficiency.

Tuchel was upbeat about his group regardless of the embarrassment at Elland Highway however talked a few cancelled flight which meant the teaching workers needed to take the bus to journey from London to Leeds. The gamers did fly although, which makes this declare all of the more strange.

Two of the three targets conceded have been as a result of unhealthy errors. The primary one got here after goalkeeper Edouard Mendy took an excessive amount of time on the ball and allowed Brendan Aaronson to poach in and rating.

The second was Reece James letting Rodrigo run in entrance of him and head the ball in following a large free-kick. None of those errors may have occurred simply because the teaching workers needed to take the bus, proper?

Talking about that weird incident, right here’s Tuchel:

“Every thing that may go mistaken, did go mistaken. It began yesterday. We had no aircraft to reach so we got here on the bus. The gamers may fly however for the teaching workers it was an extended experience on the bus. It continued right this moment.”

With simply 4 factors from three league video games, the strain is on Tuchel and the group to ship. If we keep in mind the variety of factors wanted to even problem for a Premier League lately, dropping factors early doesn’t assist in any respect.

Fairly than blaming journey preparations, the supervisor must type out the problems within the group, reduce the rely of particular person errors and extra.

Making them exhausting to beat could be a superb place to begin as a result of Leeds had it very simple to attain and create possibilities. Aside from that, ending off good attacking strikes by placing the ball behind the web would even be good.

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Up subsequent is a house sport in opposition to struggling Leicester Metropolis for the Blues. The Foxes will come into the sport after two consecutive defeats with the supervisor underneath strain. It could possibly be an ideal alternative for Tuchel and his males to get issues proper then.