What Hakim Ziyech did after Mason Mount penalty miss as Thomas Tuchel lays out Chelsea blueprint

It's become clear over the course of this season that Chelsea can go toe-to-toe with Liverpool. The two sides have faced each other on four occasions this term and every match has ended level after 90 minutes – and in the case of the Carabao Cup final and FA Cup final, after 120 minutes.

Penalty shootouts are why Liverpool have claimed two pieces of silverware from those meetings; Chelsea have twice lost the lottery from 12 yards. When it comes to the Premier League, however, it's somewhat a different story with Thomas Tuchel's side 16 points behind the Reds.

That is because Chelsea, at this moment in time, lack the mentality to produce peak performances game in, game out. Too often performance-levels drop and that must change if the Blues are to ever get back to competing for the top-flight title in the near future.

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"We have the mentality in the club to shape the mentality of the players to have these peak performances, " Tuchel said in the bowels of Wembley after yesterday's FA Cup final defeat. "But over the last years, Man City and Liverpool have proved you need to show that at a level of consistency we don't have and that we have struggled with. So we need to find it, build it, or create it – although t's a bit harder given the last months."

That is, of course, because Chelsea have been operating under strict conditions since owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the UK government in March. All contract talks have been placed on hold and there has been no progress made heading into the summer transfer window.

Fortunately, the moment Chelsea are sold to a consortium led by U.S. billionaire Todd Boehly, which