EPL: Tuchel Reveals Why Chelsea Lost To Arsenal

Thomas Tuchel was baffled as to why his Chelsea team produced “impossible” individual errors in Wednesday’s 4-2 loss to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.

The defeat comes after devastating home losses to Brentford and Real Madrid, both of which were marred by individual blunders from Chelsea’s once-reliable defense.

Eddie Nketiah scored the opening goal after Andreas Christensen’s weak back ball, and he added his second after Emile Smith Rowe’s well-worked strike after a turnover, before Cesar Azpilicueta gave away a late penalty for holding onto Bukayo Saka in the box.

Tuchel, in search of a solution, argued that the Stamford Bridge pitch was an issue for his team in the opener, but he chastised his team for creating problems from circumstances where they should have been in control.

“It was a totally wild and open game in the first half – already a 2-2 after we came back twice. We had a good start but again gave the first goal away, which is impossible to do these things in consecutive matches. But we’re doing it. We came back twice, and we scored another two in the second half, unfortunately for the wrong side.

“It’s a level of mistakes, the number of mistakes in consecutive games here at home, it’s impossible at this kind of level. You don’t see this. It’s simply impossible, but we’re doing this at the moment, and you cannot win football games like this.

“To say the pitch is difficult to play here it maybe sounds like an excuse, but it is a very, very difficult pitch that we have here. It’s not in our favour. The ball bounces very awkwardly in front of Andreas when he wants to play this ball. But still, we had the same mistake against Real Madrid that cost us the next round of the Champions League, and this one cost us the next match. I can’t remember when we got two goals like this.”