Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel was mystified by his crew’s concession of three targets in 10 minutes in Saturday’s shock 4-1 Premier League thrashing by Brentford which consigned the European champion to its first dwelling defeat in six months.
Tuchel mentioned he was pleased with the best way the Blues, who had been poor within the opening interval, began the second half with defender Antonio Rudiger giving Chelsea the lead with an unstoppable shot from greater than 30 yards within the forty eighth minute.
However Brentford tore its host aside with three counter-attacking strikes that yielded three targets between the fiftieth and sixtieth minutes, two of them by Vitaly Janelt and the opposite Christian Eriksen’s first since signing for the Bees.
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“We were in the lead and we were in charge. So I did not see that coming,” Tuchel informed reporters.
“We stopped defending and give three goals away in 10 minutes which was very untypical and which of course killed the game today for us.”
The German mentioned he had been anticipating his gamers to be drained after lots of them returned from representing their nations in the course of the worldwide break however that didn’t clarify how they crumbled when 1-0 up.
He additionally mentioned he thought the sport would show to be a blip and didn’t characterize a foul omen for Chelsea’s Champions League quarter-final in opposition to Actual Madrid at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.
“After so many wins and so many good results, I refuse to make a drama out of it,” Tuchel mentioned.
“We will find out, analyse and then we will digest it because there’s no other way. It’s hard to take because it’s very unusual for us what happened today, and then we will refocus on Monday.”
