Diego Costa and Eden Hazard uncover Tuchel's clearest Chelsea blind spot after Ziyech winner

The inspiration for this piece came from own Adam Newson, who pointed out the lack of natural creators in Thomas Tuchel's lineup against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Breaking this down further only vindicates this concern.

Other than Hakim Ziyech, who scored the winning goal and delivered some exquisite crosses that no one capitalised on, the obvious creators were hard to find with no Mason Mount, Reece James or Callum Hudson-Odoi present.

Romelu Lukaku is a centre forward, Kai Havertz has proved more of a finisher, so has Christian Pulisic.

Jorginho nor N'Golo Kante have been progressing the ball well enough to be labelled 'chance creators'. Even if Malang Sarr picked out a good pass for Kante in the first half, those moments are outliers.

From there you are relying on Thiago Silva and Antonio Rudiger to provide cutting diagonals from a deeper position.

A lot of the debate surrounding Tuchel's current attacking issues focuses on the individual performances of players and their consistent output.

However, that fails to appreciate the core relationship and chemistry attacks need to possess in order to be consistently prolific.

The issue Chelsea have currently is that the varying profiles of their attackers seem to counteract rather than elevate each other in the current system.

That does not eradicate or excuse their own performances but it might go some way to explaining why the final third has proved such a frustrating area of Tuchel to fix.

You track back to the last time Chelsea won a Premier League title and the attacking trio was far more settled complimented each other's attributes.

Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Willian played a majority of the 2014/15 title-winning season under Jose Mourinho and then were