Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel cancelled Sunday break to ‘bring everybody together’

Thomas Tuchel has attempted to draw his Chelsea squad tighter together after adding an extra day’s training on Sunday.

Tuchel cancelled the players’ day off on Sunday, bringing the first-team squad into the Cobham training ground for extra sessions following the 2-2 Premier League draw with Wolves.

The German coach insisted the extra day’s work was the opposite of a punishment, however, calling on the Blues to draw strength from the collective amid a run featuring just one win from five league games.

Tuchel dismissed suggestions of a fallout with Marcos Alonso despite rowing with the Spanish left-back during the Wolves clash, with the 31-year-old then substituted at half-time as Chelsea switched formation.

The Blues surrendered a 2-0 second-half lead for a galling draw with Wolves, with boss Tuchel now calling on his players to close ranks.

Asked about any issues with Alonso, Tuchel replied: “It started and ended in the first half, and was not continued at half-time or anything else.

“It was not continued at half-time, things are solved, and that happens.

“We came in on Sunday, we’d planned a free day but after the disappointment it was not even to punish them.

“It was normally a free day and of course maybe some felt it was a punishment but it wasn’t.

“It’s not the moment for a free day, I explained to them, it’s better to be together and talk about it than to go, everybody has his own opinion and everybody has his own truth, maybe it’s more risk to be in fragments than in here.

“So we did here very, very light training, just had a run together and spent time together discussing things, how we want to approach the next days.

“That was actually why we brought everybody together, to have the chance to be together, then a