Tuchel fumes as Real push Chelsea to the edge

Tuchel fumes as Real push Chelsea to the edge

Tuchel's aspect are dealing with the cease of their reign as Champions League holders following a sour night at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

Karim Benzema's hat-trick, comprising masterful headers and a ruthless finish after Edouard Mendy's howler, left Tuchel conceding Chelsea haven't any danger of progressing to the semi-finals.

Asked if the tie changed into nevertheless winnable, Tuchel replied: "No. Not for the time being, no.

"Because we need to find our level again, I do not know in which it is for the reason that global spoil.

"If matters trade, perhaps, however what number of clubs in worldwide football could do what we need, three goals distinction? How regularly does this take place?"

Tuchel's blunt admission laid naked his anger at Chelsea's defensive miscues, wayward completing and abject failure to fit Real's electricity.

The spluttering performance was absolutely unrecognisable from Chelsea's dynamic run to the Champions League identify ultimate season and, greater currently, their six-sport prevailing streak earlier than the March global smash.

Coming just five days after a humiliating four-1 home defeat towards Brentford inside the Premier League -- the first time that they had lost to their west London neighbours for the reason that 1939 -- the capitulation towards Real become too much for Tuchel to take.

He slightly had time to sit down down for his submit-healthy press conference earlier than he permit rip at his gamers.

"It became one of the worst first halves that I saw from us here at Stamford Bridge. It's very disappointing," he said.

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