https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/10/15/ tuchel--we-want-to-prove-that-we-deserve-to-be-the-favourites Tuchel: We want to prove that we deserve to be the favourites 15 Oct 2021 Thomas Tuchel believes the Chelsea players must embrace our status as favourites and play without fear when we face Brentford in the Premier League tomorrow. https://i.imgur.com/h0Pmvrh.jpg We are back in action this weekend following the latest international break and will make the short trip across west London to take on neighbours Brentford in the top flight for the first time, after they earned promotion by winning last season's play-offs. The Bees have impressed so far on their debut in the Premier League, losing just one of their first seven matches in 2021/22, and especially at home at the Brentford Community Stadium, where they beat Arsenal and drew with Liverpool. However, after facing several of the clubs with title ambitions in our own start to the season, Tuchel knows we now begin a run of games until the next international break against sides like newly-promoted Brentford where we will be the favourites, and it is a status he believes we need to accept, while showing we deserve that tag. 'We have seven games where we are seven times the favourites and we have seven times to prove that we are the better team because we want to be the better team,' he said. 'I think we should not be shy to acknowledge that, we should not make us smaller than we are. We want to prove seven times now in the next spell that we deserve to be the favourites. 'We need the certain mentality to do so and if favourite means that things will be easy, we cannot be more wrong. If being the favourite means that we still expect a tough one tomorrow at Brentford, then this is a good one to accept and then at the end we have to take all the pressure off our shoulders and take risks in the game and play with a certain freedom, because with the fear of losing or with the fear of losing your status you can win absolutely nothing. https://i.imgur.com/XCWlEeV.jpg 'That's why if you play for Chelsea, then you play to win and you cannot be surprised if you are the favourites in a game against Brentford. We have the attitude right and when we have the attitude right then we hopefully get the result right. I have coached an underdog team long enough in Germany to know how capable you can be as a group to close the gap for 90 minutes. Now we are on the other side and try to make a point in every single game and it starts with tomorrow.' Although he wants his players to live up to our status as favourites when we travel to Brentford, Tuchel is under no illusions about the challenge that faces us, with our opponents in good form and full of confidence, but he points to our 3-1 win over Southampton last time out as the example to follow. 'Brentford will be up for it,' added the German. 'They play with a lot of enthusiasm and they catch already momentum and all the enthusiasm from getting promoted after so many years when they tried hard. And finally Chelsea comes, and not for a cup game, not for a friendly game, Chelsea arrives for a game in the Premier League and they have so many points on their side, they have such good results and they are doing a fantastic job and the atmosphere will be like this. https://i.imgur.com/ZOOGa2J.jpg Tuchel wants more of the same against Brentford following our win over Southampton 'They will play with a lot of courage, they will play with a lot of confidence, but we cannot be surprised. We know all this and now it's on us to adapt and to accept the situation like it is. They will not gift us a single inch on the field and we have to be ready mentally, physically and tactically. This is not a match now about knowing the solutions or out-skilling your opponent, this is also a match where we have to match the mentality and the attitude. https://i.imgur.com/dQnoiYo.jpg 'This is exactly what we did against Southampton. We accepted the role that the other team is maybe the underdog and we were the favourites, but it did not stop us. We played a very intense game and a very nice game of football against Southampton and we try to do the same thing tomorrow.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/10/16/ tuchel-talks-timo--thiago-and-referee-taylor Tuchel talks Timo, Thiago and referee Taylor 16 Oct 2021 Ahead of today's derby at Brentford, the boss has answered questions on one striker's run of form, whether there is any chance two defenders could play, and he was asked for thoughts on the game's referee… https://i.imgur.com/OCISqal.jpg Timo Werner returned to Chelsea this week off the back of two impressively struck goals for Germany, in a 4-0 World Cup qualifier win in North Macedonia. In his most recent outing for his club side, he netted to restore the lead in our eventual 3-1 win over Southampton. Ahead of the 25-year-old's potential next outing today, Thomas Tuchel considers the question of whether it is imperative the player has the opportunity to continue to build on this recent success. 'With strikers, you feel sometimes that's a little bit like this,' the boss acknowledged, 'that you keep them on the pitch and keep the momentum going. Thomas Tuchel gives an update on the squad's availability whilst looking ahead at our next run of matches. 'It is about the actual form, it is about confidence and it's about the moment. We have so many games that normally we cannot wait for players to re-find their full potential. Normally we want to have the guys on the pitch who are actually in shape, with confidence and with a certain momentum. 'What we have to reflect on is that when Timo was not here he did a very good match, and he scored against Southampton and that should give him a lot of confidence. https://i.imgur.com/N7jLYy3.jpg Happy Werner after his Saints strike 'But that was two weeks ago so on Friday we showed some pictures from the Southampton game. It feels a bit weird because this game is so long ago and the guys played two or three other matches in between but it was our last match, so you show certain behaviour from the match and you want to reconnect with that feeling, but it's not that easy. 'So hopefully for Timo it is the same, he needs to restart against Brentford. And when he gets a chance to start he needs the same kind of performance as against Southampton, and from there on we go.' Tuchel has confirmed Reece James is fit enough to start if needed after he missed England's games with an ankle injury, but having yesterday indicated Thiago Silva is unlikely to be involved due to a return to England later than anyone else after the internationals, our head coach has gone into more detail. 'After he came back on Friday, Thiago needed to go to be isolated. It would be possible to let him play in theory, and if he didn't play [the last game for Brazil] we could have maybe thought about it, but the facts are he played 90 minutes, he has 12-hours travel, he was not part of the team meeting or tactical training yesterday, so I don't think this is the moment to take the risk and play him.' https://i.imgur.com/aOO8jOi.jpg Thiago Silva played three games for Brazil during the international break, including his 100th appearance Today's game is to be refereed by Anthony Taylor and in the build-up media conference, Tuchel was asked directly whether he is happy with that appointment of official after some games with the same ref in charge that have not had a favourable Chelsea outcome. 'I trust in the referees and I trust in Anthony Taylor that he will try to have the best performance,' Tuchel responded. 'Here in Cobham and in the club we cannot get lost in ideas that there's something behind it. We have to make ourselves free from this and do what we need to do to be able to win this match. https://i.imgur.com/4akmGVb.jpg Anthony Taylor refereed the Nations League final last weekend 'Do we need a top referee? Yes. Do we need good decisions from VAR, or maybe no decision from it? Yes. Do we need a little bit of luck? Yes. And hopefully we can turn things around with Anthony Taylor.' -- 以伊露维塔的名为证发誓 — 若有谁敢夺取属於我们的蓝色之心，不论对方是天使 、恶魔、男人或女人，包括尚未出生者，若有任何的生灵，不论伟大或渺小，是善 还是恶，我们都将怀着复仇与憎恨之心直追到天涯海角，直追到世界结束之日。 --

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