Every word Thomas Tuchel said on Crystal Palace vs Chelsea, Romelu Lukaku, Liverpool and more

"I'm not so sure if I have a good answer. I don't know what it says. It says he was obviously not involved and could not make a point today. I am not sure if it says so much about us in general."

"I have to stay calm now. How a week like this works, we come from a 30-degree temperature difference, we have six players with a cold from the AC in the plane, we have jet lag from Abu Dhabi, we have no player who slept well in Abu Dhabi because of temperature and the time difference. So it's the same here.

"If you think we have a normal week to prepare I can just tell you it's not like this. We are trying to survive at the moment and you can see.

"There is a lot of pressure going on if you go to a world cup and want to win it for Chelsea. The players put a lot of pressure on themselves and then we haven't played Premier League for four weeks. It's a huge and strange mix of a lot of reasons why, personally, I did not over-expect today performance-wise.

"Then we had some issues in training with Azpi (Cesar Azpilicueta) and Callum Hudson-Odoi went out from training. So this is where we are and it is like this. I know we can play better, that we want to play better.

"We were solid and disciplined defensively. We told the team at half time not to lose faith and to keep on going like in a cup game. Maybe this one chance would come and it would be decisive. Keep on believing, don't do crazy stuff, don't take risks, and allow transition for the opponent.

"The first chance we allowed for Crystal Palace was a clear foul on Christian Pulisic and, ok, the last one in added time we could've defended better, but it is their only chance. It is a clean sheet and it's not the first 1-0 we have."

"If anybody wants to explain to me how to