Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel believes that the key to sustain performance is mutual trust and honest reflecting learning and the German admits he his happy on how is players are adapting quickly to is style.
Tuchel have pick up seven points out of nine, playing a draw game with Wolves and also beating Burnley and Tottenham hotspurs.
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The former PSG manage says that result don’t follow all the time in football and also accept you can not control the result but admits they need to take care of their performance and also the relationship with the players and him.
“Results don’t follow all the time in football,’ explained Tuchel. “That’s hard to accept for a coach who wants to control and plan everything but in football, and especially in the Premier League, you have to accept you cannot control the result.
“What we can do is take care about our performance and for that we need a good relationship between the players and me. We need to trust each other so we can talk always about the performance and then the results will hopefully follow.”
Tuchel further stated that he is always passing a message to each player so as to let them understand what is expected of them.
“I had moments in the past where I went into the dressing room after a draw or even a defeat and I was praising the performance but I have to prove it,” he continued.
“We try to create performance and for that you have to be clear to each player what performance is – what I need to do, what the manager expects from me and why, what the team expects from me as a player and how we play together as a group. In the end, it’s like an orchestra so we have to follow a certain rhythm, discipline, speed and style. This has to be clear to everybody.
“There will be matches where we win and we will be absolutely unhappy so we will show the team why we are unhappy and why we are just lucky to win the game. But if you ask me if I prefer to win lucky or to lose undeserved then I go for a lucky win of course because with a win it’s always easier to improve.”
The manager has been happy with the kind of character that his players have shown since his arrival as he works to put the team in a good shape.
“We are here to create performance on the level that increases the possibility to win,’ he added. ‘There’s not much more we can do but then the players jump in with the atmosphere and energy, what the team can do more than just to be 11 guys out there on the pitch.
“This is what I feel right now is happening and what the team brings out in itself, a certain glue to stick together, to overcome obstacles and difficult minutes, to be ready to work for each other.
“All this is included in performance but sometimes you can only smell it. You either feel it on the sideline or you don’t feel it but it’s hard to explain and prove in statistics and numbers and behaviours.”
