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Having conducted his post-match media duties following Chelsea's Carabao Cup final defeat to Liverpool, Thomas Tuchel returned to the Chelsea dressing room and was shocked by what greeted him.

"I could not believe what I saw after the match," the German revealed this afternoon during his pre-match press conference. "There was surgery going on in our dressing room!

"I'm not joking, it was surgery. They were stitching him up and I just heard him scream in pain while they were doing it."

The man responsible for that scream was Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah, who midway through the second half of the final collided with Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita.

In real-time, it appeared a genuine coming together, and referee Stuart Attwell even played advantage for the Reds.

Yet when the incident was replayed, it showed Keita had planted his studs into Chalobah's groin having made no contact with the ball. Rather bizarrely, the VAR didn't even review the incident.

The 22-year-old academy graduate would go on to complete the game and scored in the penalty shootout that Chelsea ultimately lost. But on his return to the dressing room, he required six stitches to sew up the wound he had suffered.

"It was a proper cut very close in the area of the