Thomas Tuchel praised Timo Werner after Chelsea thrashed Southampton 6-0 and insisted the ahead ‘wanted’ to ‘make an announcement’ and show he stays an ‘essential participant’ at Stamford Bridge.
Werner scored twice in Chelsea’s spectacular victory on the south coast as Thomas Tuchel’s facet recovered from back-to-back defeats to blow the Saints away.
Chelsea had been overwhelmed 4-1 by west London rivals Brentford final weekend and suffered a 3-1 defeat to Actual Madrid on Wednesday evening within the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
However the European champions had been again to their dazzling finest in opposition to a shell-shocked Southampton facet, with Marcos Alonso, Mason Mount and Kai Havertz additionally getting on the scoresheet.
Werner was handed solely his tenth Premier League begin at St Mary’s and justified his choice with a energetic efficiency and a brace.
The German striker has been linked with a transfer away from Stamford Bridge in latest weeks and Tuchel insists the onus was on Werner to ‘make an announcement’ in opposition to Southampton.
Requested whether or not £47.5m signing Werner confirmed his means within the 6-0 thrashing and made an announcement, Tuchel stated: ‘After all.
‘It was his place, it was the gamers round him, the reference to Mason [Mount], Kai [Havertz[ and Mateo [Kovacic]. He likes to play and he has a reference to these gamers.
‘He was in a double striker place, the half left place, and it was in opposition to an opponent that we may think about we’d discover areas in behind as a result of they play a excessive assault.
‘So it was set out for him to ship, truthfully. Every part was there for him to ship and make an announcement that he has not given up, that he's nonetheless an essential participant of this membership and this group. And he did.
‘It was essential, excellent and powerful, however essential.’
On Chelsea’s total show, Tuchel added: ‘The efficiency modified, the dedication and the self-discipline.
‘That is how we need to play and we gave a solution lastly since you may see it on the scoreboard. It displays the efficiency at this time which was excellent.
‘It's at all times a gamers’ sport however we attempt to put together them in addition to attainable. We're at all times completely satisfied for gamers to handle the sport they usually did.
‘You may see they had been centered to play to the plan and we did it with focus, dedication, starvation and naturally with high quality.’
Chelsea journey to Spain on Tuesday trying to overturn a 3-1 deficit in opposition to Actual within the second leg of their European quarter-final earlier than going through Crystal Palace at Wembley within the FA Cup semi-final subsequent Sunday.
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