EPL: Chelsea boss Tuchel celebbrates after  victory over Crystal Palace

Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel, has said they weren’t at their best for victory at Crystal Palace.

Chelsea had to wait until the 89th minute to get the winning goal through Hakim Ziyech, after the same player had earlier had a goal disallowed by VAR.

“I know that we can play better, I know that we want to play better,” Tuchel said. “We were at least solid defensively, we were disciplined.

“We told the team at half-time not to lose faith and to keep on going like in a cup game, maybe this one chance will come again and it is decisive. Keep on believing, don’t to crazy stuff and don’t take risks to allow transitions for the opponent.

“The first chance we allowed Crystal Palace was a clear foul on Christian, and okay the last one is in added time when we can defend better, but it was the only chance. We have a clean sheet and it is not the first 1-0 we have.

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“If you think we had a normal week to prepare I can just tell you it is not like this. We try to survive at the moment and you can see it. There is a lot of pressure going on if you go to the Club World Cup and if you want to win it for Chelsea. The players put a lot of pressure on themselves and we didn’t play in the Premier League for four weeks.

“It’s a huge, strange mix of a lot of reasons why I personally did not over-expect today performance-wise. Then we had some issues yesterday in training that meant Azpi and Callum went out from training. So this is where we are and it is like this.”