Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, urged his players to honor their rank in their opposition to le Real Madrid, next Tuesday in the Champions League.
The Blues manager has praised his side for finding a reassuring and conquering face on the occasion of the wide success (6-0) once morest Southampton on Saturday in the Premier League.
Chelsea lost their quarter-final first leg 3-1 at home. A worrying setback at home and which followed a correction suffered once morest Brentford the previous weekend.
“We found what makes us strong”
Asked if the burst displayed on the Saints makes him feel confident in view of a possible “remontada” at the Bernabeu, Tuchel replied: “It’s up to the players to rise to the occasion of what we play and they did it in an impressive way. So now is the time to move on because we found what makes us strong and that was another proof of that and we keep going.”
Called to also explain the two routs recorded, the former PSG coach put this slack on account of mental relaxation “It was necessary for us to turn things around, but we were coming out of a long series of matches, then we had the international break and we had five days following where we didn’t feel the same. So it wasn’t a big change, it didn’t have to change everything, but it was time for us, I felt, to tell the band the truth, my honest opinion, and their say as a member of the group what I feel”.
The German concluded by stating that he questioned himself during the complicated period that his team went through: “The message was clear, and obviously everyone took it in the right direction, I included myself in the message, and therefore it was necessary to take a step forward. »