Everything went south and nothing was working – the performance was lousy and new players didn’t look at all like a multi million euros stars, but more like a Championship caliber footballers. Dinamo Zagreb stunned the Blues in the opening round of the Champions League and won 1-0, thus making an unusual record – they are the first continental club to beat all four major London clubs (Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham), which is something that the clubs like Barcelona or Bayern never managed. On the other hand, Chelsea already lost three games, even thou the season jus started and only 7 games were played in all competition. 3 – Chelsea have lost three consecutive away games for the first time under Thomas Tuchel, having last done so in December 2020 under Frank Lampard. Unfamiliar. pic.twitter.com/H8QmNpvYFx— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) September 6, 2022 Coach Thomas Tuchel was reasonable angry with the performance. Not only did he lost, but the more troubling fact was that his team played bad. It wasn’t one of those games where a team loses but generally plays well and creates a bunch of chances, but the opposition keeper has a career night. This was a bad performance all around. “I’m angry with myself and I’m angry with our performance. I’m angry with myself because I did not see it coming. Obviously I was in the wrong movie. I thought that the last game helped us. I thought we showed a reaction in a very difficult moment against West Ham, got the reaction, got the result in the moments when you need a bit of luck in the situation we were in. We had good training sessions, I thought the team was prepared, I thought we know what this is all about. I didn’t see it coming, that’s why I’m angry with myself” said the German. Tuchel with such a lousy Chelsea! Dinamo Zagreb make a shocking upset in the UCL opening gameTuchel also had to admit that his side is not ready as he wants them to be, which is worrying, considering that the Blues spent over million euros this season for the new recruitments, but they didn’t play well at all. The only goal of the game was scored after a mistake by Wesley Fofana, and we saw that Aubemeyang was on the field only because he was wearing a protecting mask, otherwise, he would be unseen. Not to mention that Chelsea’s subs are not exciting at all. „There is too much to analyse — I’m a part of it. We’re clearly not there where we need to be and where we can be, so it’s on me it’s on us. At the moment everything is missing. This is a huge underperformance from all of us. Obviously they are underperforming individually and I don’t really know where this performance comes from. A lack of determination, a lack of hunger and a lack of intensity to do the things we need at the highest level. We are clearly not where we want to be. It was the same story of the last few games — we start OK for 15-20 minutes but then lacked determination, precision and maybe even lacked the smell of blood. We need to be much better. We are not finished, we are not happy with our results, we are not happy with the way we play in general, but I thought we were on a good way. I’m surprised by this performance“ said Tuchel. He needs to get this team going ASAP. ##NAJAVA_MECA_6624793##
