The USA international seems to have found his form after producing a goal and an assist during the 4-0 victory at Burnley on Saturday.
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Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has showered praise on Christian Pulisic and believes that the attacker can have a huge influence on their game. What has pleased Tuchel the most is Pulisic’s hunger for goals and assists. The USA international seems to have found his form after producing a goal and an assist during the 4-0 victory at Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday. He started in a highly energetic and fluid front three alongside Kai Havertz and Mason Mount. The link-up play between them was beautiful to watch.
Pulisic and Mount turned 23 earlier this season and Havertz does so in June. It shows that they still have a lot of years in front of them to improve and become a better version of themselves. “He’s in a good moment and good form,” reflected Tuchel. “It’s been good link-up between him, Mason and Kai so they have assists together, goals together, and they are decisive.”
Tuchel then spoke about what Pulisic needs to do to be even more prolific. “For me, what Christian can bring to the team is his physicality and his ability to hit high intensity very repetitively,” explained Tuchel. “This is the focus and then the other thing is he has the ambition and the natural hunger to arrive in the six-yard box.
“This is what we need and he needs to focus on these things and start from there. If he does and if he feels the physical fitness and ability to do so, he can have a huge influence on our game.”
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As far as the Premier League is concerned, Chelsea currently trail leaders Manchester City by 16 points, but have two games in hand on the champions. It starts with a trip to Carrow Road against Norwich City.
“We want to stay where we are at least and take what we can get from the guys above us but Man City and Liverpool produce these kind of results consistently throughout every month,” he explained. “They don’t drop in performance or points in certain months or certain periods.
“This is what happened to us. The Covid situation and the injury situation in certain moments caught us and had a huge influence on our points but at this moment we have our form back and we play again a bit more fluid, active, lively, more attractive and nicer to watch.
“We can feel the group stronger and stronger. This is how we got the results and this is the good news. If you look at our schedule, the next four matches come within the shortest possible time so we need to be spot-on.”
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