Thomas Tuchel made a mistake and threw the ball for Arsenal’s home defeat to Chelsea; Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink says Romelu Lukaku’s performance lacked desire | Football news

Thomas Tuchel was unable to explain why his Chelsea team made “impossible” individual mistakes during Wednesday’s 4-2 loss to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.

The loss followed heavy home defeats by Brentford and Real Madrid, also due to personal error from Chelsea’s previously reliable defence.

Andreas Christensen’s bad back pass set the tone, allowing Eddie Nketiah to score the first, and he got his second from Emile Smith Rowe’s fine strike from a spin, before Cesar Azpilicueta was given the ball. conceded a late penalty for keeping Bukayo Saka in the box .

Looking for answers, Tuchel insists Stamford Bridge is a problem for his side when it comes to the opening goal, but also criticizes his side for creating problems out of circumstances. situations they should have controlled.

“It was a completely wild and open game in the first half – it was 2-2 after we came back twice. We had a good start but conceded the first goal, which was not. We can’t do it in consecutive games, but we’re doing it. We came back twice, and we scored two more goals in the second half, unfortunately wrong.

“It’s a level of error, the number of fouls in consecutive games here at home, impossible at this level. You don’t see this. It’s simply impossible, but we’re doing it. this at the moment, and you cannot win football games like this.

“To say the pitch is difficult here sounds like an excuse, but it’s a very, very difficult surface that we have here. It doesn’t work in our favor. The ball bounces very awkwardly in front of Andreas. Play this ball, but we still made the same mistake against Real Madrid that cost us the next Champions League spot, and this mistake cost us the next game . I can’t remember when we conceded two goals like this.”

“Look at the penalty, and it was an unbelievable goal from our possession. There was no strategy behind that. We lost three balls in ten seconds. Then, we fouled without danger We fouled one man, it was a penalty, and it took us six minutes to equalize. analysis.”

Tuchel’s Chelsea have conceded three or more goals twice this month. They have only done it once before during his reign and as Tuchel pointed out, Antonio Rudiger and Thiago Silva’s frequent absences on the bench doesn’t explain it.

“We conceded seven goals with Toni against Brentford and Real Madrid, the answer to the question,” Tuchel said. “A defensive performance is a team performance, and an offensive performance is a team performance.

“You need to have the right strategy, that is I have no doubt about this right, and you need the right to choose the team, again I’m not sure I’ve got this right.

“Then it’s a game for the players. They’ve been praised for doing so in the last three games. And they have to face the reality that it’s impossible to win matches. if you make a ton of mistakes of this magnitude.. It’s simply not possible.I haven’t seen it in any other game, but I do see it now in consecutive matches of my games. us, and it has to stop.”

Hasselbaink: Lukaku did not perform well against Chelsea; ‘express desire’

While Tuchel refrained from naming individuals in post-match outfit because of his team’s performances, former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink told Sky Sports that the performance of record signing Romelu Lukaku Simply not the problem.

The Belgian made his first Premier League game since February but never seemed to end a goal drought that lasted from December to December and went off after an hour.

Hasselbaink said Lukaku, Christensen, Malang Sarr and Marcos Alonso were not at the level they needed – and called on the Belgian to show more.

“I think Tuchel is very disappointed. I don’t think he wants to be too critical of individuals but I think he is very disappointed about some individuals,” Hasselbaink said.

“I don’t understand why he is talking about the pitch because there are two teams playing on the pitch. Maybe he is trying to protect some individuals but if you look at the game, Chelsea played very well under the body.

“Lukaku, Christensen, Sarr and Alonso – they’re not good enough for a Chelsea team that should be challenging to win the Premier League. I know they can’t be No. 1 anymore but you guys still play for your pride. .

“Lukaku, you haven’t had your best seasons, you’ve got your chance – go and show someone you’re the man. Show it’s what you really want. Show that desire. I don’t see it.

“I really want him to do well, this team needs a number 9. Then you see Kai Havertz come in and he goes into space, he wants the ball, he runs left, right and center. No. not everything is going but he is trying I don’t see that from Lukaku.

“I’m not saying everything is his fault but he’s leading, let’s do some more work.”