The 3-0 defeat at Leeds showed Chelsea do need Aubameyang, De Jong and Fofana. But spending money won't solve everything for Thomas Tuchel - their problems run far deeper than that. CFC 📝 liam_twomey
in place of his starting central midfield and sacrificed all semblance of tactical structure in service of conjuring a goal through sheer weight of attacking numbers. He barely considered it worth mentioning in his post-match assessment, which focused on Chelsea’s familiar attacking issues prior to Mendy’s howler.
“I think we lost it in the first 20 minutes,” Tuchel insisted. “We created enough chances, half chances, chances to be 1-0 or 2-0 up. Then we lost the discipline, the repetition in what we wanted to do and what we did OK in the first 20 minutes. Instead of 2-0, it became an even match and in that even match, we gave two goals away that were cheap and unnecessary.”
The numbers did not quite back up that view; Chelsea’s expected goals rating of 0.71 at Elland Road is the worst they have registered in any
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