Ahead of Manchester United Tuchel Reports Defender missing but reports no further injuries

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The great news for Thomas Tuchel is that his squad returned from Bucharest in good health, with all those having made the trip to Romania available to face Manchester United today.


However, Tuchel confirmed in his pre-match media conference that Thiago Silva will not be in contention to face Manchester United as he continues to recover from a muscle injury which he sustained at Tottenham last month.  

Tuchel reported ' He carried out an individual training session today, on the pitch, and felt this was huge progress.'

'This is a big step for him, so I am hoping that he will join us next week.'

Tuchel has already faced Manchester United twice this season with PSG in the champions league group stage 

'It is very helpful if you understand the style, strength and weakness. We have had a pretty good impression of the style they play and the spaces in which they want to hurt us, alongside their strengths individually as a group. This will help us to prepare.'

'They enjoy lots of space , they enjoy playing on the counter-attack, they like to use their speed an will look to absorb our speed. They are a very strong team who have a compact defence, are very good in transition whoever they play, and it will be a big challenge for us to defend all this.'

'We will therefore, underline our opinion and knowledge with images from the last four weeks, and like always, we will then prepare our team to hopefully win this game. We will focus on ourselves, and concentrate on what we have to do to win this match.'

'There is still a lot to do but currently we are on a good run, and it will be a big challenge to be the first team to beat them in an away game in the premier league.'

This fixture begins a big run of games for the Blues 

'Prior to this game there a London derby, a champions league game against Atletico Madrid, and now we face Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton in the league, these are a series of big fixtures and challenges we will have to overcome.'

'For this reason this is exactly why we are here, We are looking forward to prepare the team so that they are ready on Sunday.'

'If we manage to achieve a win from this game it will be a huge result for us. However, if they manage to win it will be a huge result for them.'

'So lets wait and see. We are very aware. Today was not a day where we focus absolutely, today was a day where we bring the team together and do good training on the pitch. From now onwards our focus will totally be on this game.'

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