“Deserving it” – Thomas Tuchel praises one major positive from City defeat

Chelsea will already be looking ahead to a new week of massive games after losing to Manchester City at the weekend.

The Blues have a big game in the Champions League on Wednesday night against Juventus, and then another big Premier League fixture against Southampton on Saturday.

Against City at the weekend Chelsea were very flat, and Tuchel has been reflecting on the performance and his misjudgement on tactics after the game.

But there was a couple of positives to take from the game, one of which was the handful of minutes he handed to Ruben Loftus-Cheek in the second half, who came on and looked very impressive again after his big performance in the Carabao Cup in the week.

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The midfielder is very much looking like a man on a mission and in form, and his mission is to break back into the regular starting Xl for Chelsea, and if he keeps performing like this he simply cannot be ignored.

“I was happy with Ruben, otherwise he could not have had the chance to come on,” Tuchel told the Chelsea website.

“He played against Zenit and he played against Aston Villa, and now he played this 15 minutes. He could not be involved without deserving it.”

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