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With Werner having missed several chances in Spain, that may give Tuchel some food for thought in his forward positions for the return fixture, but he has likely already got his starting line-up in mind. It is the individual example to have players on the pitch who had a tough decision last Tuesday, Tuchel said after the match about Havertz. They didn’t show the attitude, ‘oh now they need me’, I wanted to have time against Madrid, not only against Fulham. This is absolutely not the case. He took his chance. He showed up and this is what we need all the time and especially in times like this. You need guys who are fully committed.
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Chelsea have spent generously in the last couple years to reshape the team’s attack in the post-Hazard (and post-Willian) era, with around £200m (most of that the Hazard money) dropped on the quartet of Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner, and Kai Havertz. However, it’s probably fair to say that none of the four have truly lived up to their fees and billings just yet, some less so than others, but certainly not with much, if any, consistency.
Havertz has been no different, with glimpses of his absolute top quality on occasional display, but not with the sort of regularity one might have expected from the most expensive non-goalkeeper signing in club history and even beyond just the fee, for someone billed as a “generational talent”. Dealing with those sorts of pressures can be challenging of course, not to mention doing so at a young age (just
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