Mendy’s Decision Making Has Been Off Lately – Tuchel

Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel has come out to say that Edouard Mendy has lost some confidence. He recently revealed this after the goalie made two errors that led to two goals in a 3-2 loss away to West Ham United.

According to him, Mendy is clearly going through a tough period right about now even if he doesn’t know why exactly.

Tuchel added that Mendy’s decision making has not been at the highest level in recent times and that must be worked on.

His words, “[Mendy] is going through a rough period, I don’t know why exactly but he seems to have lost a bit of confidence,”

“His decision making was not on the highest level [on Saturday] but with the first goal we also put him in a really awkward situation. He could have saved the situation, he did not, and we are far away from blaming anybody but we need to admit that we do too many crucial mistakes at the moment that cost us a potential win against Man United and cost us [on Saturday] a potential win.”

“The performance is enough to even win the game but what we clearly see is that we give easy goals away and this is very unusual. We make big mistakes and we have done this now for three matches, against Man United, Watford and again [on Saturday],”

“If you do this at this kind of level you cannot expect to have results. If you want clean sheets, if you want to dominate games, if you want to protect yourself against counter-attacks, it’s impossible to do these kinds of mistakes.”

“If you do this at this kind of level you cannot expect to have results. If you want clean sheets, if you want to dominate games, if you want to protect yourself against counter-attacks, it’s impossible to do these kinds of mistakes.”

“We did that now three times in a row and it is simply too much. We cannot give any excuses that we are tired. It’s absolutely normal to be tired if you play Premier League through winter. It is a question of absolute focus. It’s a question of detail. It’s a question of precision and it’s a question of risk management – where you take the risk and where you absolutely don’t take the risk.”

“If you invite a team like West Ham United into the last 20 metres by giving big ball losses then you are in trouble. This is a no-brainer.”