Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel took goal at the Stamford Bridge pitch for his facet’s current woes, consisting of the four-2 defeat to Arsenal.
The Blues won at Wembley on Sunday to attain the FA Cup final, but that papered over the cracks of a bad run of shape at home. In truth, Wednesday’s loss to the Gunners become their third successive home defeat for the primary time in 28 years.
Chelsea have additionally conceded eleven desires in that run. What’s extra, Arsenal’s 4 desires came once they had best scored one in their previous three video games.
Speaking in an interview with Sky Sports, Tuchel insisted that “dramatic” and “completely individual errors” fee the Blues in their trendy London derby.
Cesar Azpilicueta scored to make it 2-2 earlier than 1/2 time inside the exciting contest. However, he changed into at fault for a out of place pass which caused Eddie Nketiah’s 2d goal. The Spaniard also conceded a penalty which Bukayo Saka received and scored.
Andreas Christensen was also within the highlight. It changed into his out of place lower back-bypass which Nketiah stole in on to open the scoring for Arsenal early on.
And no matter blaming person mistakes, Tuchel changed his song in his publish-in shape press convention to the broader media.
He said: “To say that the pitch is difficult to play here maybe sounds like an excuse but it's far a totally, very tough pitch that we've got here.
“It’s no longer to our favour and the ball bounces very, very awkwardly in front of Andreas when he wants to play this ball.”
Whatever the source of Chelsea’s woes, Tuchel spared no sympathy for his facet’s overall performance. He claimed that he can't recollect such mistakes in his time in price.
