Thomas Tuchel believes Romelu Lukaku may be able to cope with the brought pressure on him inside the fallout of his explosive interview remaining week, praising his performance on the go back to the Chelsea starting lineup.
The Blues eased to a 2-zero win over competitors Tottenham inside the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-very last on Wednesday nighttime, with Lukaku main the road after being left out from the squad remaining day out.
Tuchel was requested via Sky Sports approximately his thoughts on Lukaku's performance publish-sport, replying:
"Good, truely happy.
"I became quite positive he wasn't effected by using [the pressure]. I see him on a every day basis. He appeared to be relaxed and exceptional with the state of affairs and mentally moved on.
"Romelu can deal with strain and adversity. It turned into an amazing overall performance. He contributed plenty to our shielding setup and created a few chances."
Lukaku's go back to the lineup changed into considered one of a number of modifications Tuchel made after N'Golo Kante and Thiago Silva examined high-quality for Covid-19 earlier this week.
The German tactician defined why he made a switch from Chelsea's standard system.
"We played four-four-2 whilst we had the ball due to the fact there have been no players left to play a back 5 after Thiago changed into positive!" Tuchel said.
"Yesterday we took the selection, took a few minutes on the training pitch to work thru the ideas. I felt the crew became very centered to do it proper and we had some moments in protecting with a returned 5 because we did no longer need to [cause] overload at the wing backs.
