Not been overly impressed with there performances. Got massively out played by us and only had 6 shots at home which would of got brought up a lot more if they didn’t end up coming away with a point. Suppose it will take him time to get his methods across to the players, his Brighton team came to Old Trafford at the beginning of the season and gave us a better game then his Chelsea team.
I think people underestimate how bad Chelsea were under Tuchel since mid-December 2021 - they were only 6th in the form table. Very much akin to Solskjaer getting second with us, their top four position last season was heavily dependant on us, Tottenham and Arsenal being being poor - with Manutd being beyond just poor.
This season, they were leaking goals and scoring very few. Potter has improved them massively on both fronts - it is far from perfect, but Chelsea have a lot of issues stemming from poor recruitment, particularly this past summer.
Just to show the improvement:
- Goals conceded per game - 1.42 (Tuchel) ; 0.37 (Potter)
- Goals scored per game - 0.8 (Tuchel) ; 1.75 (Potter)
It wasn't even like Tuchel had a tougher run - he only had to play Tottenham from the teams currently in the top half of the table (a few of the teams he faced have struggled badly this season - Leicester and Leeds etc.). Potter has faced two top half sides (Brentford and Manutd) and he has had to play AC Milan twice; Tuchel faced the easiest team in their CL group.