Chelsea: Tuchel told player to stop complaining about Werner vs Arsenal

Chelsea’s 2022/23 pre-season campaign has been a bit of a disaster truth be told.

The Blues beat Club American in their first match, but were then defeated on penalties by Charlotte FC.

And on Sunday morning, things took a turn for the worse as Thomas Tuchel’s side were humiliated by London rivals Arsenal.

In the Florida Cup final, the Gunners ran out 4-0 winners thanks to goals from Gabriel Jesus, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Albert Sambi Lokonga.

Tuchel was absolutely fuming with his players after the game and raised doubts over Chelsea‘s ability to be competitive at the start of the 2022/23 season.

“I can not guarantee it,” he said when asked if the Blues would be ready for their Premier League opener away at Everton.

“I saw today a team in Arsenal who are mentally committed to an idea of playing, a level of exhaustion, a level of physical commitment that we could not match.

“Also, a level of mental commitment that we lacked because we have a lot of players who are thinking about leaving and looking at their options. We have players that have left and I think at the moment that’s obvious.”

Yeah, Tuchel is not a happy bunny and during the game versus Arsenal, he even had to intervene from the touchline when Malang Sarr appeared to complain about Timo Werner’s lack of effort.

The defender slightly overhit a pass into Werner, but the German striker barely moved a muscle in an attempt to keep it in play.

And in footage of the incident, you can see Tuchel appearing to gesture towards Sarr to keep his mouth shut…

Tuchel telling Sar not to complain about Werner being lazy pic.twitter.com/CYbc9dphO4

tuchel was telling malang sarr not to complain about werner’s attitude