https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/10/01/ tuchel--we-want-to-give-them-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine Tuchel: We want to give them a taste of their own medicine 01 Oct 2021 Thomas Tuchel knows exactly what to expect from Southampton and their coach Ralph Hasenhuttl but is hoping to beat them at their own game at Stamford Bridge. https://i.imgur.com/yBYszbl.jpg We host the Saints in SW6 on Saturday afternoon as we look to return to winning ways in our last Premier League fixture before the international break, following back-to-back 1-0 defeats to Manchester City and Juventus. Southampton are led by their own former Bundesliga coach in Ralph Hasenhuttl, who Tuchel knows well from their many matches against each other in Germany and elsewhere, and the Blues boss is expecting to see more of his opposite number's trademark brand of football this weekend. 'We meet each other now regularly because we played against each other in the Bundesliga and now here and we met once in Paris for some days, we meet of course in coaches' meetings. He's a very friendly, very nice guy, very humble, very entertaining also, a very funny guy,' explained Tuchel. https://i.imgur.com/Geza2lV.jpg Tuchel and Hasenhuttl after our game at St Mary's last season 'The teams he trains have always the same philosophy. It's high intensity, it's very aggressive, it's about ball recoveries and this is on a very high level. They have a very fast team, a very aggressive team, they had good results against both Manchester teams, so this is what we are expecting, a good team with a good coach and a nice guy, but that does not count for 90 minutes.' However, Tuchel is up for the challenge of facing Southampton's distinctive style of energetic, pressing football, and acknowledges there are plenty of options available to counter those tactics, in addition to hoping to give the visitors some problems with our own pressing. 'We have developed some ideas and some solutions of course to deal with this high pressure. In general you need to be absolutely aware of it. You don't have time to think when you're on the ball, we need to anticipate situations, we need to be very good in the timing and distance of our passing, if we want to escape high pressure in our own half. 'It can also be a possibility to use long balls to escape high pressing, but then you need to have a good position before. The most important thing is that we are aware and that we don't judge teams by their name or their ranking or their previous results, but we talk about what we see and their behaviour and we need to be aware of an aggressive and an intense team. 'We want to also have the answer to the pressing from Southampton with counter-pressing and to give them a taste of their own medicine, also because it is a part of our game.' There could also be a familiar name in the Southampton line-up on Saturday, with young right-back Tino Livramento becoming a regular in their team after leaving Chelsea over the summer. Tuchel, who named Livramento on the bench twice in the Premier League last season, explained the club saw his potential, but ultimately respected the player's wish to move on. 'He was highly rated, we did everything to keep him here, to show him his future and his possibilities to compete also for a position in our team. He decided to go, that's his decision, sometimes you have to accept it, there are no hard feelings. 'He was of course competing with Reece James and Azpi in the right wing-back position. I think it was an ideal position for him to fight and the group is not too big so there was a big chance also to make it all the way. https://i.imgur.com/bArRiF6.jpg 'If Tino decided to go, it's fair enough, he does very well, we wish him all the best. Of course we saw the potential, he decided to go another way and fight for his place in Southampton and that's how the business is.' Focusing on our own team going into this fixture, our head coach also explained why the job of integrating Romelu Lukaku into this Blues side is an ongoing process, after we struggled to supply him with chances in our last two matches, despite the Belgian scoring four goals in his first four matches following his return to west London. 'He was fully involved in the very first game against Arsenal and also if you look at the second half against Tottenham he was involved in chances, in assisting for Timo Werner, in the first half in connection with Mason Mount. 'Football right now is about connections and with Romelu I feel a strong connection with Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic, they look for each other and have an understanding. Everybody else lacks it a little bit and we need to learn, we need to adapt, we need to create and understand each other better. https://i.imgur.com/HgV101S.jpg Tuchel believes Lukaku and Mount have a good understanding 'We had games where we was fully involved, now we had games like against Manchester City where of course he was isolated, Manchester City made him be isolated and our build-up play and our transition made him be isolated. There will always be matches like this where there is no place to go, no way to be involved. It is nothing major to be worried about but we are aware of it.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/10/02/ tuchel-issues-kante-covid-update-and-reacts-to-conte-comment-abo Tuchel issues Kante Covid update and reacts to Conte comment about Lukaku 02 Oct 2021 N'Golo Kante is unavailable for today's game against Southampton, as the midfielder continues his isolation following a positive Covid test, but the good news is his physical condition is okay Thomas Tuchel has confirmed. https://i.imgur.com/WByip2I.jpg Near the start of the pandemic, Kante had concerns over the virus which led to him being granted compassionate leave from some training sessions in May 2020, prior to the resumption of matches the following month in which he was involved. 'N'Golo has symptoms but not a lot of symptoms, so he's okay,' is Tuchel's latest update a year-and-a-half further on. 'I don't want to go into more details. He's okay. He's doing well. 'He was concerned about it [in the past], and he did everything not to get it. Unfortunately, he tested positive but we care about him, like we care about every player. We're in touch with him every single day. The doctors are in touch with him and he has our advice and our support, and he is in a good way.' Romelu Lukaku however is in the squad to face the Saints at Stamford Bridge and Tuchel has been asked to comment on the assessment by former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, who was working as a pundit during TV coverage of our 1-0 defeat by Juventus midweek, that Chelsea had not quite figured out yet how to use Lukaku, who was managed by the Italian at Inter Milan. 'He [Conte] was obviously not on the telly after the Tottenham game,' began Tuchel's response. 'Of course, if you watch this game against Juventus isolated, he is right on that point and he's obviously in the TV studio to analyse this one game so he's right, no discussion about it, but it's not a general thing. If you watch the other games he's maybe not right. https://i.imgur.com/Hf9wCxN.jpg Former Blues boss Conte watches Lukaku in the Milan derby 'I don't feel offended, don't get me wrong,' stressed the Blues head coach. 'He has every right, he is in the TV studio to do so. I even saw it while I was showering before the match in the hotel. 'I saw him talking about us, and I saw all the pictures that they showed of Romelu and our other players from the Tottenham game, and they were talking how good the link-up play is from Romelu and how strong he is and how much he's scored, so they were praising him. 'After the Juventus game, they have the right to say that he was too isolated. Juventus made him isolated. It felt like seven players around him all the time in the box. They did it good and they did it in their style, and we have to accept it, but it's not a general problem.' Tuchel emphasised that a big part of football is the link-up play and the connections between players, and feels such understandings already exist between Mason Mount, back from injury now, and Mateo Kovacic with Lukaku. For others it may take more time and repetition in training and matches. 'We need to look at the games very individually,' the boss continued. 'Any striker in the world would be isolated if we defend so deep, or we play so poorly in transition, like we did against Man City.' https://i.imgur.com/gzLOpUa.jpg Romelu Lukaku battling with Aymeric Laporte in the Man City game Tuchel believes that in the wake of our success at the end of last season, and our good results at the beginning of this one, opposition sides are preparing differently and more carefully for facing us. Whereas previously they would arrive with a plan for how to beat us, they are now more concerned with stopping our method of play first and foremost. This was to be expected and it is the natural scheme of things that Chelsea must now evolve to meet this challenge. 'I saw Zenit St Petersburg play a back-five for the first time in the last 200 matches of theirs that we watched,' points out Tuchel. 'I saw Aston Villa play a back-five against us and they had not played a back-five before. 'It is on us to find answers and we're in the middle of the process. Teams are looking also for solutions to close down Romelu and to bring him into spaces where he does not feel so comfortable. https://i.imgur.com/XKmlLbq.jpg The boss studying Friday's training 'We are on it and there's always a solution with a positive approach. The solution is to try to play free no matter what, and don't think too much about what we have to lose.' -- Hoddle: 'Matthew will be sitting up there looking down now and loving Chelsea being winners. He'll just love Chelsea winning.' --

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