LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel mentioned he was baffled by his facet’s drop in type after a 1-1 draw nL1N2T1391 at house to a struggling and under-strength Everton on Thursday, saying it was not simply right down to the absence of key gamers via damage and COVID-19.
The end result left Chelsea in third place, 4 factors behind Premier League leaders Manchester City after 17 video games.
“For me it is not really easy to analyse why we’re dropping factors,” Tuchel advised reporters.
“I see groups concede rather more probabilities than we do … We conceded completely nothing and nonetheless it is a draw.”
Chelsea, who did not capitalise on their early dominance over Everton, went forward within the seventieth minute with a Mason Mount strike, solely to let in an equaliser 4 minutes later when Jarrad Branthwaite linked with an Anthony Gordon free kick.
“Today, please, it is a freak end result for this sort of match,” Tuchel mentioned. “Three-nil would have been a good end result.”
The end result had echoes of Chelsea’s current 1-1 attracts at house to Manchester United and Burnley, each which the Blues additionally dominated by way of probabilities created.
“I’m not so positive proper now why we get punished like this,” Tuchel mentioned. “We won’t look away. The dressing room may be very disillusioned, I’m very disillusioned after all.”
Tuchel refused accountable the poor run on accidents to key gamers comparable to Romelu Lukaku or an outbreak of COVID-19 nL1N2T12K4 on the west London membership which sidelined Lukaku and fellow strikers Timo Werner and Callum Hudson-Odoi for Thursday’s recreation.
Kai Havertz was additionally out with sickness and was ready for the outcomes of a COVID check.
“Of course, we endure, for positive,” Tuchel mentioned. “But there’s by no means one cause for a scarcity of outcomes that we clearly have proper now.”
Everton boss Rafael Benitez praised his facet for sticking to his game-plan to thwart Chelsea’s early surge and construct their approach into the sport, particularly with so a lot of his personal first-choice gamers injured and changed by younger understudies.
“It was actually essential to see the younger gamers doing nicely,” Benitez mentioned.
He added that his facet might put behind them their current poor run of type.
“This group of gamers could make errors however this group of gamers they’ve nice character, nice spirit.”
(Reporting by William Schomberg; Editing by Ken Ferris)
