Chelsea, Thomas Tuchel and Champions League glory
“I want to make Chelsea such a strong team in Europe that no other team will ever want to play against our team,” said Thomas Tuchel at his first press conference since being appointed as Chelsea’s head coach on January 26, 2021. Six months later, Tuchel has fulfilled his promise by helping Chelsea win the European Champions League for the second time.
London club Chelsea became the European champions for the second time, beating another English club Manchester City 1-0 in the Champions League final held in Porto, Portugal.
In the final, the only goal scored by German midfielder Kai Hawertz in the 42nd minute of the first half was enough to give Chelsea the title. Chelsea managed to score only one goal throughout the game, but in the final 90 minutes Chelsea looked better than Manchester City in all areas, whether in possession or in attack.
Chelsea have handed over the reins of the club to German coach Tuchel, dismissing Frank Lampard, the highest scoring player in club history. He was the first German to become Chelsea’s head coach. Chelsea Football Club had a lot of problems when he came to the club.
The performance of the club was not good, the players who were brought in by investing heavily in the club did not play as expected and the old players also started looking tired. The saddest and most important thing is that Chelsea was in the ninth place of the Premier League table. Having played more than half of the league’s games, Chelsea’s chances of playing in the Champions League next season seemed almost over.
In the midst of all this trouble, Chelsea played their first game a day later under the leadership of Tuchel, who took the reins of the club, but the game with Wolves ended in a goalless draw, with Chelsea beating Burnley 2-0 in the second game.
A few weeks later, Tuchel’s influence on Chelsea began to show. After all, Chelsea remained unbeaten in 13 games. However, the players who were not in rhythm gradually began to catch the rhythm. Chelsea, led by Frank Lampard, reached the Champions League pre-quarterfinals with their group winner, meeting Spanish La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid.
In the first leg of the pre-quarterfinals on 24 February, Chelsea beat Atletico Madrid 1-0 at home and 3-0 on aggregate in the second leg to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in six years.
Chelsea reached the Champions League final nine seasons later, beating Portuguese Clan Porto 2-1 in the quarterfinals and 13-time Champions League winners Real Madrid 3-1 in the semifinals. The most interesting thing in the meantime is that Chelsea’s defense, which looked very weak when Frank Lampard was there, reached the final with only 2 goals from the pre-quarterfinals.The main credit for this success goes to Tuchel.
In the meantime, Tuchel has managed to get the badly-criticized German center-back Antonio Rudigar back to his old rhythm, while another very experienced Brazilian, Thiago Silva, has had a remarkable rhythm. The fact that he did not score a goal also confirms that Chelsea’s defense was truly world class.Chelsea, ranked ninth in the English Premier League when Tuchel took over the club, qualified for next season’s Champions League despite losing in the final. Luck has also helped Tuchel’s team in that.
Chelsea had a chance to finish fourth in the league table after Tottenham beat Leicester City 4-2 in the final. Chelsea, led by Thomas Tuchel, have won 19 of their last 30 games. It is even more surprising that Chelsea have not conceded a single goal in 18 games. German coach Thomas Tuchel, who led Chelsea to great success in such a short span of time in the middle of the season, has had a happy and sweet ending to the season, apart from losing to Leicester City in the FA Cup final.
The fans of the club are happy with this and so is the Chelsea club board. But Chelsea are such an amazing club, they don’t know what patience is. And you know who the Chelsea owner is ? The Russian Mafia Roman Abramovich, 142nd richest person in the worls. He is not afraid to invest heavily in recruiting new players, he needs one or another title every season, otherwise any coach will be fired immediately.
This is further confirmed by the brutal dismissal of world-class managers such as Carlo Ancelotti, Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte the next season after winning the league title.
In fact, Chelsea’s owner Roman Abramovich doesn’t like his club being second or third. This is further confirmed by the fact that Russian billionaire Abramovich, who owned Chelsea Football Club in 2003, changed 14 head coaches in the meantime. Tuchel, who has signed a 18-month deal with Chelsea, said in a post-match match after beating Manchester City to win the European Champions League that he had signed a new contract with the club.
It is easy to guess from this that Tuchel wants to spend a long time at Chelsea. Now Chelsea is a great and worth watching team in Europe full of very young and talented players. In the 2020/21 season, Chelsea’s top scorer of the entire season, Jorginho, has scored only seven goals, including a goal from the penalty spot. Timo Werner and Mason Mount are in second place with 6/6 goals.
This proves that Chelsea is not a club that relies on one player, they have an excellent team.Tuchel is now fortunate to have such an excellent team. The Euro Cup is starting in a few days. The new season of the Premier League will start one month after the end of the Europe Cup.
The club has said it will invest more than 150 million to buy a new player for next season at Chelsea. According to international media, Tuchel has made Romelu Lukaku of Inter Milan, Declane Rice of West Ham and Jadon Sancho of Borussia Dortmund his top priorities. If, in the current transfer window, Chelsea recruits players such as Lukaku, Rice Sancho, Chelsea will be one of the best in Europe in the 2021/22 season, as Thomas Tuchel said.
Chelsea have won the European Champions League this season, playing excellent football. It remains to be seen how the next season will be played under the leadership of German genius Thomas Tuchel.
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