Thomas Tuchel has exposed that he was not happy with his Chelsea team after they defeated Tottenham in the 2nd leg of their Carabao Cup semi last on Wednesday.

The German stated that the players required to play ‘much better.

Chelsea beat Tottenham 2-0 in the very first leg with Antonio Rudiger’s first-half header deciding the sufficient and 2nd to reserve them an area at Wembley against either Arsenal or Liverpool.

Antonio Conte’s side saw two charges eliminated and an objective prohibited after VAR checks.

And Tuchel was far from happy with the performance of his players.

The German boss was asked if he was unhappy after the game and he responded, “Yes. It’s about our standards, not about getting outcomes.

“We can close spaces much better. We can control the match better.

“We managed the match, we had huge chances. However we allowed chances from simple and sloppy mistakes and were fortunate. We nearly gave a penalty away for definitely no factor.

“The same occurred for the last 20 minutes, a mix of lack of focus, over-confidence, and unexpectedly we require luck to not have another penalty.

“We require to play far better if we want to really be worthy of outcomes like this.

“We’re delighted with the outcome. In the very first half we were the much better group and we should have to be up.

“But we lost concentration and lost focus in the last 15 minutes of the first half and once again in the 2nd half. We were practically punished for absence of focus.

“We dipped into 90% which’s not our design– we shouldn’t do this. We needed to work hard and it was not our finest efficiency– we were better in the very first leg.”

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