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Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel has great admiration for the young players to make a successful career for themselves at a top team and says the passion for the club itself is vital to making it at Chelsea. Tuchel says that the youth form the backbone of any football club. Since selecting experience over youth in is head game as Chelsea head coach, Thomas Tuchel has picked up where Frank Lampard has left off when it comes to putting his faith in Chelsea's homegrown young players and providing them with an opportunity to excel.  This was very much evident again in the Blues last match, where six academy graduates from Cobham featured in the FA Cup fifth round victory over Barnsley, a fact which was underlined when three of those graduates Tammy Abraham, Billy Gilmour and Reece James combined with each other for Abrahams decisive goal in the game.  In Tuchel's own opinion, the players who are coming through Cobham are the lifeblood of the club and something which he has always ...

Thomas Tuchel passes instructions down to Callum Hudson-Odoi Thomas Tuchel reveals the idea of playing Callum Hudson-Odoi as a right wing-back first entered his head when he and his assistants where on a plane to London preparing to begin their journey at Chelsea. A success story for Tuchel has been  deploying Callum-Hudson Odoi on the right hand side of a five during his early days in the job. Hudson-Odoi was voted man of the match by Chelsea supporters against Wolves and Burnley, the wing-back impressed with his direct running, used extra space provided to him in a more deeper position and showed tremendous willingness to defend when required. However, it remains to be seen whether Tuchel will deploy a 3-4-2-1 system for the visit of Tottenham this evening , but whichever system he does choose it will be very tough to leave out Callum-Hudson-Odoi on this current form. Tuchel said of the 20 year old 'I had no idea he hadn't played wing-back before.' 'Perhaps it was goo...

In this article we analyse the key statistics from Chelsea's 2-0 victory on Sunday against Burnley in Thomas Tuchel's second game in charge as head coach of the Blues resulting in a a deserved three points.  Chelsea's domination of possession with 71% against Sean Dyche's Burnley side just highlights how in control the Blues were at Stamford Bridge, as well as registering 19 shots on target compared to just a solitary single attempt on goal from Burnley which game in injury time.  Unlikely sources of goals welcomed  Not too many people will have predicted that the first goals to be scored in the Thomas Tuchel era would have come from Spanish defenders Cezar Azpiliqueta and Marcos Alonso. Both Spaniards were on target , both in each half, to secure all three points for Chelsea combining this with a clean sheet kept in defence, this was a perfect day at the office for the Blues. Captain Azpiliqueta recorded 106 touches in the game but, without doubt, the most rewarding on...