The most measured response in this thread. Cheers Geoff.

I have a feeling he starts vs Atletico. I think Tuchel wants to play him and get him back into form.

"Pulisic deserves to start". - this from Tuchel. What a load of crap! It would be much better if he just said his form is off thus he is not starting. But he won't because he has not given Pulisic a fair shot.

Let's face it priority has always gone to Werner whether it was Lampard or Tuchel.

In fact when played out of position Werner was horrible far worst than Pulisic's play when Pulisic plays out of position - which has been most of the year, under both coaches, by the way.

Where might Pulisic be with form if given the same opportunity to play, in his best position, with equal amount of play. If you gave him Timo's minutes in the position Timo played my bet is he would have been much more productive.

Timo's touch, dribbles, shooting, have been amongst the poorest on the team but they have not waivered getting him in form at the expense of playing others where they fit.

In fact the reason they moved Pulisic around is precisely because he was the better option to add value somewhere else to help the team.

This dribble Chelsea coaches /mgmt give you about competing everyday for minutes is BS - they are not without politics. I saw that with Lampard and now we are seeing it with Tuchel.

By the way, I am not necessarily opposed to it - because as a coach you go with what you think best but call it for what it is please.

CP should start one of the next 2 fixtures, right? With Tammy out, maybe sliding Timo to the top and Christian moving into the left forward position?

Silva and Havertz available for Saturday vs Saints. Last match against a bottom 10 side until early April, so Tuchel has had the benefit of schedule softness to get off to a strong start. Get through Saturday and then a biggie at Atletico to see where we really are.

Not an injury. Just “awareness”. Pulled from training to avoid an injury.

Looks like I have the magic touch. Turn the second half of Southampton match and... Boom! Equalizer at 53rd minute.

What’s the point of 70% possession if you create no opportunities nor take any shots? Blues were fortunate to get the PK because of the offensive ineptness. And taking CHO off after 13 mins was ridiculous- Werner offered nothing today and should’ve been sat. Ziyech has proven to be nothing for this side and CP and Kai are MIA. Blues are about to hit a stretch of legit teams and cannot score. Pathetic effort on a day where 3 points were desperately needed. Mount, Kovacic and Jorginho have been solid and need to be on the pitch together.

Why was CHO pulled after 30 minutes?

Damn that’s harsh. CHO has been a bright spot since Frank was sacked and I guess Tuchel is trying to motivate him but if he isn’t careful, he could lose him psychologically. Where the hell is CP? We needed some pressure offensively and he could’ve provided that.