Thomas Tuchel says he cannot recall a pre-season from his managerial career with such an alarming sequence of defeats as this summer.
After Arsenal powered past Tuchel’s Chelsea in Florida, with a quartet of unanswered goals, the German erupted: “I don’t know if I ever lost a match in pre-season 4-0.
I can’t remember not winning two matches in a row.” Arsenal’s muscle-flexing followed the loss, on penalties, three days earlier against Charlotte, newcomers to MLS.
Tuchel’s memory was letting him down. Some four years ago, when he was head coach at Paris Saint-Germain, he oversaw three successive summer defeats in warm-up games, including a 5-1 against Arsenal in Singapore, although the circumstances then were different.
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