Tuchel also gave VERY interesting and more detailed/telling comments later on post match: the ones where he basically poked fun at himself for how we play “keep people out, move the ball up slow, Jorgihno penalty”
He specifically said we HAD to play that way due to personnel. That our best line up had 3 older players at the core and the double sixes played close to them due to recovery issues. The ONE time Koulibaliy went forward Silva was almost caught out and came close to giving up a penalty. Jorgihno is slow, Kante is old and getting slower, Azpi is slow, Silva is great, but old and slow.
He has tried to play a formation with more going forward and we simply fail. Two players could fix that: Fofana and De Jong. Played alongside Kante and recovery pace is no longer an issue and he can create going forward in a way Jorgihno simply isn’t capable.
Silvas legs almost gave out by the end of just that first game. Play Fofana and Koulibaliy with De Jong, Jorgihno/Kovacic, and Mount as a connecting mid instead of a winger that had to drift back just to try and link up …. And we could be a completely different team.
I have seen ALL the players we have up front, including Havertz, put goals last people steadily in different situations. What has to change is how isolated our attack is.
There are NO attackers out there that can simply receive the ball by themselves and make offense while the team huddled back.
This would be their best option. Im still skeptical of it happening. But not because Tuchel doesn’t see the issue. He just doesn’t want to rip our core publicly on something that is a long shot.
jesus
