Tuchel publicly criticised Chelsea's underachieving players following Wednesday's three-1 loss to Real Madrid in the Champions League region-final first leg.
The German admitted holders Chelsea don't have any hazard of progressing to the semi-finals and claimed his group's performances in that defeat and their four-1 home loss towards Brentford ultimate Saturday were unacceptable.
As if that changed into no longer a robust sufficient message from a manager commonly careful to be composed in front of the media, Tuchel referred to as his squad collectively on Thursday to deliver every other fact check ahead of Saturday's game at Southampton.
"It changed into not a discussion sort of assembly, it changed into extra that I gave my point of view and that is on occasion additionally important," Tuchel informed journalists on Friday.
"We usually take the gamers' view under consideration. But over the last video games we felt it was maybe necessary to offer our point of view.
"It turned into behind closed doorways in an environment where everybody can take grievance."
Tuchel took off N'Golo Kante and Andreas Christensen at 1/2-time in opposition to Real, having dropped Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner, Marcos Alonso and Ruben Loftus-Cheek following the Brentford debacle.
But Tuchel said he did not unmarried out players for non-public criticism in a meeting which protected a focus on their current defensive failings.
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"We don't factor palms, we do not look for individuals who are guilty, we are in this collectively," he said.
