Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel argues that poor running doesn’t reflect performance because he urges parties to “believe”

On Friday, Thomas Tuchel jumped from injury to bad luck and wondered aloud if his players might have had a hard time coping with the praise as he looked for reasons to explain Chelsea’s recent results.

In the 25 days since Juventus ’4-0 break, the Blues have won just two of six, not convincingly, and dropped from a Premier League top three-point gap to four-time lead to Manchester City.

“We’re exactly where you don’t want to be,” Tuchel said. “Good performance – sometimes very good – but we don’t have results. Good performance without results is the worst place.

Thomas Tuchel doesn’t think Chelsea’s poor performance reflects their performance

– I don’t understand where we played a bad game in West Ham, and I refuse to analyze Everton’s match based on its outcome.

‘It makes no sense. We were a clearly better team. If you just look at the results of football, you could be terribly misled.

– This is a great danger, a great risk. It can lead to frustration. It can lead to the same behavior as if you were playing badly and I don’t want to end up with it, so I still encourage my team to go and do it again and believe. Why shouldn’t we?

– Recent results are not what we expected or deserved. It’s a little up and down. Maybe we also struggle with praise. I don’t think that’s one reason.

Thursday’s 1-1 draw for Everton has left them four points behind the leading Man City

The Blues have taken just 12 points from their last seven matches and conceded nine goals

On that joyous evening of Juventus, the injuries sustained by N’Golo Kante and Ben Chilwell had an immediate effect. Mateo Kovacic was already gone. Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner worked back. Trevoh Chalobah joined the victim list.

Then, just as Tuchel’s injury problems began to ease, the Covid epidemic ruled out five players in a 1-1 draw against Everton on Thursday.

Chelsea started the draw at home with Burnley on November 6 and has only lost once but has taken just 12 points from seven Premier League matches.

And after scoring just three goals in the first 10 games, they missed nine of those seven.

“When we score a lot of goals, self-confidence drops,” said Captain Cesar Azpilicueta. City, meanwhile, have won the last seven and Liverpool have won the last six. The pressures are rising and the draws are starting to feel like losses.

Stamford Bridge may have anxiety, perhaps an embarrassing fear of another midwinter collapse as they thought they were prepared for the championship challenge.

Despite all the success, there were rumors in his last whistle against Everton.

“Talking is happening,” Tuchel said. – I don’t think it was because of the show. They came to support us, and in the end they were disappointed. We were too. I refuse to take it personally.

This is still Tuchel’s first full season in English football, where the unique grace strikes the worst this time of year.

But Tuchel still urges his side to “believe” despite their mid-season fluctuations

Bodies begin to break under strain and home furniture penetrates and asks questions, even without Omicron complications.

It makes sense to rest the players, get around the team, but those from the outskirts have low sharpness and competitive advantage, as well as poor morale after weeks of feeling unloved and unwanted.

These are tricky waters to navigate even for a Champions League winner who is 325 days at work and preparing to face Wolves, his first opponent as the boss of Chelsea.

“It’s great that we have some wins and even a big championship,” Tuchel said. But now is not the time to think. We must remain positive. There is a lot to focus on.