'It's A Situation We Don't Like': Tuchel On Chelsea's Midfield Headache

N'Golo Kante is injured and Conor Gallagher is suspended for the next game against Southampton tomorrow night. Meanwhile, Mateo Kovacic is still not fit enough to play the full 90 minutes.

This will lead to some changes in midfield for Chelsea and Thomas Tuchel said this is indeed a 'headache' for him.

He explained: "It i [a headache], and it's normally the area I would love to have a headache about who plays and who is on the bench. This is normally the area where I thought we would have five players that could all play for us and have Carney [Chukwuemeka] on top as an option as a young player.

"The headache before the season was whether we had too many players there, but it comes to the fifth game, and maybe we only have two left with experience in this position and Kova from the bench because he is not ready to play full matches at Premier League level as he only had a week after training after his injury.

"It's a strange situation and a situation we don't like. I don't know why we are in this situation, actually. It's like this, and we will have something to think about [over the team selection], or maybe not because it's so obvious who we have left."

Jorginho will no doubt start in the middle of the park and we can perhaps expect to see Ruben Loftus-Cheek slot next to him here.

Source: CFC