Chelsea coach: The team's performance at home is not due to laziness

Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel said that his team's poor performance at home this season is not due to the players' laziness, stressing that he must urge the players to be more vigilant.

Chelsea lost 4-2 to their London neighbors Arsenal last week, in their third consecutive defeat in all competitions, making it the first time they had suffered three consecutive defeats at home since 1993.

Chelsea occupies third place among the English Premier League teams with 62 points from 31 games, after winning seven of the 15 league matches played at home so far.

"Maybe I am the reason, because I have to urge the players to be vigilant and alert," Tuchel said in media statements yesterday, "It


is normal for us as humans to feel tired, and it is normal for us as humans to be more alert and attentive in a knockout match than in any normal match." Chelsea hosts West Ham United tomorrow.West Ham United of the British capital also occupies seventh place among the twenty English Premier League teams with 52 points from 33 matches.

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