https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/ tuchel-confirms-defender-start-at-saints-and-assesses-midfield-headache Tuchel confirms defender start at Saints and assesses midfield headache 29 AUG 2022 Thomas Tuchel says Kalidou Koulibaly will slot straight back into the side for tomorrow's game against Southampton having served his one-match ban. https://i.imgur.com/PCDuEqG.jpg The defender was sent off late on in the defeat at Elland Road for two bookable offences so had to sit out the weekend win over Leicester City, interrupting his start to life at Chelsea, but Tuchel has confirmed it will continue on the South Coast. 'He will play at Southampton, he will be on the pitch,' said the boss. 'He's a massive player for us. 'I already see him emerging as a leader. He's a fantastic player, a fantastic personality, and I'm so happy with what I see, how he behaves, how he trains. https://i.imgur.com/pelLii9.jpg Koulibaly rushes towards the Chelsea supporters to celebrate his first goal for the club 'I see a lot of quality and everything that is needed to be a leading figure at Chelsea.' On Saturday, Conor Gallagher followed Koulibaly in getting dismissed, meaning we have already had as many red cards in this Premier League season than in any since 2017/18. Gallagher is now suspended tomorrow, and with N'Golo Kante injured and Mateo Kovacic only just returning to the fold, Tuchel admits he has problems to deal with in the centre of the park. 'It's the area where normally I would love to have a headache who plays and who is on the bench. I thought we could have five players who could all play for us, and have on top Carney as an option as a young player. 'The headache before the season was 'do we have too many players there?'. It comes to the fifth game and we have only two left with experience in this position, and Kova from the bench. At the moment he's not ready to play full matches at Premier League level. He has only had one week of training after his injury. 'It's a strange situation and one we don't like. It's like this and we will have something to think about – or maybe not because it's so obvious who we have left!' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/ tuchel-on-sterling-hes-here-to-score-and-hes-never-shy-to-say-it Tuchel on Sterling: 'He's here to score and he's never shy to say it' 29 AUG 2022 Raheem Sterling opened his Chelsea account with two crucial goals against Leicester on Saturday, and manager Thomas Tuchel believes the manner in which they arrived underlined the attacker's threat in the final third. https://i.imgur.com/dPtBohY.jpg Sterling had a goal disallowed and another effort deflected just wide on his debut at Goodison Park. He then missed one good chance in each of the Tottenham and Leeds games, but he didn't have to wait much longer to get off the mark in Chelsea blue, scoring twice in a devastating spell at the start of the second half on Saturday. The first was a dipping strike from the edge of the box, the second a predatory close-range finish that has been his trademark for many years, and Tuchel felt he didn’t let a slow start, nor our early red card, limit his ability to find the net. 'Everybody is waiting for the goals, he is waiting for the goals, he is here to score and he is never shy to say it and take this responsibility,' said the boss. 'It's on us to give him the opportunities, but there is not one percent of doubt to do it because he has done it for years and years in this league. He is mobile, he is dangerous, he breaks the lines. 'He struggled a little bit with his confidence and his dribbling [against Leicester], you could see it, then we were one man down and it was not obvious he would get chances to score, but he got three of them and scored twice. It was super important not only for us, but also for him individually.' -- ＫＴＢＦＦＨ --

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