Thiago Silva insists they need to stop United’s best players as he believes Tuchel is putting on plans to hurt the Reds.
Chelsea defender Thiago Silva insists his side must stop United best players when they finally meet this evening in the Premier League.
Thiago, who believes that Cristiano Ronaldo is a deadly player and unpredictable stated that they need to stop the Portuguese collectively.
He added that they can stop him if they can stop the likes of Bruno Fernandes who feeds him the ball.
“When you look at the players of that level and talk about Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, De Bruyne, then you can play against them 10 or 20 times, it doesn’t matter how many times, they are players who are so unpredictable.
“They always do something that means it’s impossible to prepare to stop them, so I just hope that for this game the team prepares well and comes together collectively to stop United’s best players and that’s not just Ronaldo, because Ronaldo doesn’t play on his own.
“He’s always well served by Bruno Fernandes and others on that team so if we prepare well and understand if we stop those players who are serving Ronaldo then we’ll be able to stop Ronaldo himself, that’s the best way to prepare for this game.”
Thiago further stated that the manager is putting in a lot of plans in other to hurt Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
“He’s a manager who works really hard, particularly on the tactical side, thinking about attacking shapes. He’s someone who always thinks about winning so in order to do that he needs to think about different attacking plans to put in place out on the pitch.
“It’s interesting to see because the way he prepares us we put into practice everything that we train with him, and at the moment it’s all coming off. It’s unbelievable all that he’s putting in place to make sure that we’re in the best condition to win.”
