https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/12/21/
tuchel-rules-three-more-out-for-brentford
Tuchel rules three more out for Brentford
21 Dec 2021
Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel has confirmed N'Golo Kante will not be
involved at Brentford tomorrow, while also stating both Andreas
Christensen and Trevoh Chalobah are major doubts.
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Kante retuned to the Chelsea side in our 0-0 stalemate at Wolves on Sunday
and played the full 90 minutes, despite Tuchel admitting post-match that
it was never the plan to throw N'Golo back in at the deep end after
trouble with a knee injury.
'What we did with N'Golo Kante for 90 minutes was close to irresponsible,'
Tuchel said in his media conference today ahead of Wednesday night's game.
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Kante dribbling the ball at a misty Molineux
'Will he be involved against Brentford? Simply no. We cannot do this and I
will not do it. We will now give him time to recover and prepare for Aston
Villa and this is the situation.'
Tuchel did however confirm Jorginho's availability for tomorrow's
quarter-final clash. 'Jorginho had a negative test, it was a wrong
positive, so he is back training.
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Jorgi in Chelsea training yesterday
'Andreas is very doubtful with injury and the same for Trevoh Chalobah,'
Tuchel confirmed. 'From the match, we have Chalobah a big doubt. N'Golo
Kante and Mateo Kovacic we took a huge risk with, and we now are paying
for this. Two matches in one week for them is simply impossible.'
Our German head coach confirmed that in many first-team players' absence,
the Under-23s trained at Cobham yesterday ahead of Wednesday's match.
'We made them come for two training sessions but then we detected that
Lewis Baker is positive for Covid. Another player out. This is another
risk. We blend some squads and now we have another positive.
'The players [with Covid] are okay and this is the most important. They
are not back as they have to be out for 10 days before release. This is
the concern we have and then they are out, have Covid and we don't know if
they can play or not if it is risky,' Tuchel added.
On yesterday's decision by the Premier League not to call for a fire break
in the current season, the German admitted he did not believe the decision
to take a break would be the outcome of the meeting.
'I thought this was coming. I was not concerned about the bigger picture,
we have a schedule, with the Club World Cup, it is not easy to postpone
games but for isolated situations like ours in the last match we thought
we had a strong case.
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'I shared my thoughts with everybody. We accept the situation and the
challenge. We had 14 players and with a lot of them we took a huge risk.
We did not feel fully safe. Apart from that, we will accept the next
challenge and it will not get easier because these guys are out.'