Speaking after Chelsea’s loss to Man City, Antonio Rudiger said: “Normally what we are strong in, today we didn’t show.
“We’ve played against them before and we played out from the back and it was not a problem like today. Today I think it was more on us, we have to play more ourselves. Obviously they played good, but we were not at our best.
“Today is the first time that the opponent was physically better than us. They ran more than us, they made it very difficult for us. But from ourselves, it was very disappointing.
“We have to admit we had a very bad day in the office. We didn’t perform on our usual level and that’s why we were punished and this is what we have to take for the next games, to give more intensity, because to be honest in every aspect they were better than us.
“Today we didn’t show our personality that we usually show. Obviously this can happen, but in a game like this it shouldn’t happen.”
The Blues struggled to control the game against City and couldn’t mount proper attacking moves to trouble their defence.
Thomas Tuchel’s side are still only one point behind league leaders Liverpool and will be looking to bounce back against Juventus in mid-week.
Source: Chelseafc.com
