Thomas Tuchel says the key to watch this Chelsea team develop is having the ability to introduce new ideas while not overloading or laboring the players throughout this busy season.
In a typical spell of this campaign, the Blues were engaged as they moved to the top four of the table with a 2-0 win at Newcastle last night. Timo Werner and Olivier Giroud were the goal scorers.
While that lack of coaching time should be frustrating for a head coach making an attempt to induce to understand his players halfway through the season, Tuchel feels the high variety of matches additionally presents a chance to visualize what they’ll do on the pitch, even though he’s having to take care of what quantity work he will with them at Cobham.
‘Every coach in the world wants to have four weeks with his new team to get to known the habits and the characters and the characteristics of the players but we did not,’ he said. ‘Maybe the good thing is that we didn’t think about it because there was no time. It was beneficial that we had a lot of games because in matches you get to know your team better. In matches, the boys can show their spirit of competition, their mentality and you see pretty much everything.’
‘Now we’re learning and trusting each other while we are playing in the hardest competition in Europe and this is a good experience but there is no other way at the moment. There’s a lot of space to improve, now we have three days to prepare the next match and we will use them.
‘It’s always a balance and this is what we think about when we’re in Cobham. How much training time do we get with the players? How much information do we give them? In the end less is more. There’s the constant management for us to deal with the sessions, with the input, with the support, or just sometimes leave them alone and let them process all the new movements, the new approach or their performances. It will also be like this during the next month, that we always think about how much can we give the team and what would be an overload.’
However, Tuchel insists on having such choices at his disposal, with three established internationals and one promising young player vying for 2 spots within the beginning line-up position very essential to compete at the very best level in soccer.
