How can Chelsea be in title race with so many Covid-19 instances, accidents, says supervisor Tomas Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel blamed Chelsea’s 1-1 draw in opposition to Brighton and Hove Albion, which turned out to be the newest blow to their dwindling title probabilities, on refereeing points, the group’s worsening harm disaster and the variety of constructive Covid-19 instances throughout the membership. Chelsea sought in useless to have their December 19 match in opposition to Wolverhampton Wanderers postponed due to their scarcity of match gamers. (AP Photo)HIGHLIGHTSTuchel mentioned that talks of Chelsea within the title race is “stupid”N’Golo Kante, Mateo Kovacic, Thiago Silva, Kai Havertz are amongst gamers sidelined by Covid-19Full again Reece James hobbled off with an harm within the recreation in opposition to BrightonChelsea supervisor Thomas Tuchel mentioned that talks of his membership chasing the title is “stupid” contemplating the accidents and the variety of Covid-19 instances they’re coping with. Tuchel additionally lashed out at refereeing choices throughout their 1-1 draw in opposition to Brighton and Hove Albion, which put them eight factors behind league leaders Manchester City.

Chelsea are presently second however third-placed Liverpool path them by only one level and have a recreation in hand.”How should we be in it?” mentioned Tuchel. “We have seven Covid cases. We have five or six players out for six or more weeks. How should we compete in a title race? Everyone else who has a full squad, everybody in training has the full power to come through this league.”We can be silly to suppose we are able to do it out of Covid and accidents and simply play, and everyone can be silly to do it with out 23 match gamers.”Full back Reece James hobbled off with a hamstring injury before fellow defender Andreas Christensen went off at half time with a back problem during the match against Brighton. “It’s an excessive amount of, sooner or later it is an excessive amount of,” said Tuchel.Chelsea’s personnel crisis began in October when strikers Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner were injured in the same match and since then they have lost defender Ben Chilwell to a long-term knee injury and seen N’Golo Kante, Mateo Kovacic, Thiago Silva, Kai Havertz and others sidelined by injuries and COVID.Chelsea sought in vain to have their Dec. 19 match against Wolverhampton Wanderers postponed because of their shortage of fit players and Tuchel said he simply did not know what his squad was capable of now.”We have merely approach too many gamers who we don’t know what we are able to demand,” he mentioned.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.