Tuchel challenged Chelsea to always focus.
He insist they are always carried away after taking the lead.
Thomas Tuchel challenged his side to always focus as they are always relaxed when ever they take the lead.
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has challenged his side to always focus and concentrate when they take the lead.
The Blues lost 2 points against Russian team Zenit St Petersburg in the Champions League despite take an early lead in the game.
The point was not enough to secure a first position in their group as Juventus won their match.
What was said after the match.
Speaking with the Skysports last night after the game Tuchel said: “My analysis is very clear: our behaviour changes when we have a lead and this is something we never did and we should never do.
“We do the things that we want to do on the highest level and we push ourselves and it hurts and it has to hurt.
“You have to play through pain – physical pain – and you have to raise your level of concentration and you have to overcome adversity.
“If you change your behaviour because of the score, you allow the possibility to get punished. And it’s very easy; we need a higher level of sprints, a higher level of runs, a higher level of intensity and concentration.
“It’s as easy as the basics. The basics need to be pushed onto a higher level while we are in the lead.”
The German stated that his players are always taking his instruction but feel relax when they are in control.
“I won’t take it personally that you make a judgement here that my players are not listening to me, which I don’t find so nice but I leave it with you and your opinion,” said Tuchel.
“I think that we had a very good first 15 minutes and we stopped doing the things we did in the first 15 minutes.
“We were forgetting why we were the better team, because of the investment, the level of concentration, the level of physical investment was high enough to be the better team.
“Once this drops, five, 10 per cent, and it does; once we start managing results and changing our behaviour from what the score is, we get punished at the moment.
“It happened to us at West Ham and it happened again today. The reaction was good again, that shows me that it’s not about what we can do, because we can do it.
“Suddenly when we concede two goals we can step up, we can show a reaction. But once we have the lead we give it away again, like also today.
“The last six minutes again we started playing balls back, we started not attacking in the same aggression, the same hunger as before and we got immediately punished, now twice.”
Sportscliffs earlier reported that Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel says that there is an anger and ambition to turn things around in the team.
“It is like this. I feel it also personally like you have a certain anger in you that you don’t have when you win,” Tuchel admitted. “There is a certain anger and ambition to turn things around.
“This makes you at first feel very bad but brings out the need for you personally to step up and show a reaction. We try to avoid it because everybody hates to lose but it happened.”
“Like I said after the game and when we analysed the data and performance, I don’t think it’s necessary to ask the big questions right now,’ Tuchel added.
“We need to step up in details and do our details to our standards. We need to do this on the highest level and do it relentlessly.
“No matter what the result is, what the occasion is or how big the adversity is. We have some space where we can improve in the details but it is not about the big picture in the moment.”
