Chelsea boss Tuchel warns players about home form: Don't get superstitious!

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23 Apr 2022 • 3:49 PM MYT
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Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has urged his players not to fall into a trap of a home form hoodoo.

Defeat to Arsenal in midweek was their third consecutive home reverse - something which hasn't happened since 1993.

"It's obvious that we are behind, it's very unusual for me over the last years, not only here. I don't know what it is. If we had a solution, we would switch dressing rooms or take another hotel," Tuchel joked.

"Though this would be more superstition than anything else. I have no solution, but it's not the level we want to produce in home games.

"Sometimes, it is a bit like 'oh not again' and once you get this feeling, it is hard to get rid of it again. Sometimes it is not even a problem, tactically or the shape, but instead it is due to pure quality from the opponent which you have to accept.

"It is hard to separate this from mistakes, whether it was not enough or was it simply very difficult to defend these chances. It can happen that the feeling creeps in that you don't want to have in a home game. You want to feel you are capable of coming back.

"It is now a job of convincing the players to keep on going, and the supporters to keep pushing and hang in there. We have a lot to build and rely on. Don't get superstitious now. Don't believe in things that aren't there. It is another challenge on top."


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