Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says it is his responsibility to try and get his strikers up to a prolific run in front of goal.
So far so good, Chelsea remains unbeaten under new manager Thomas Tuchel.
In five games under the German manager, the Blues have won four of those fixtures. The only stalemate (against Wolves) came in his debut game towards the end of last month.
Everything seems fine under Tuchel but for one major thing. The Chelsea forwards are yet to hit the ground running under their new boss.
In all of Chelsea’s last five games, only one goal has been scored by a forward.
Tammy Abraham’s winning goal against Barnsley is the only goal that has come from a striker since the Tuchel era at Stamford Bridge.
Elsewhere, Timo Werner continues his barren run in front of goal while Giroud continues to fire blanks as well.
Tuchel is eager to sort this out soon enough and already plans to put out tactics that favor his forwards more. However, the 47-year-old also adds that the players themselves have a responsibility to do better as well.
“It’s my job to create spaces and create chances and make everybody understand how our strikers love to have the ball, how they can be the most dangerous guys they can be, because they have quality,” he said as per the club’s website.
“Now it’s on us, on me and on their team-mates, to create the chances that they can score.”
Tuchel continued: “We have guys here who can score and the good thing in arriving in the middle of a season is you don’t lose your head by thinking about other players. You focus all your energy in developing the potential that we have, and we have potential.”
“Against Barnsley it was very hard to score because we had only nine touches in the box, it’s way too few for what we demand of ourselves, and we clearly have to work on that. We need to push the numbers back up to where they were against Tottenham, against Sheffield United.”
“From there I need to get to know the players a little better, but it comes every day, and then we will find maybe some formations where it’s easier for us to score or to bring the strikers into good positions.”
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