https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/11/01/
thomas-tuchel-press-conference-ahead-of-malmo
Tuchel confirms players out and one return
01 Nov 2021
Thomas Tuchel has ruled Mason Mount out of tomorrow's Champions League
game in Sweden but Christian Pulisic will travel.
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Mount has not recovered sufficiently from the illness that forced him to
miss our weekend game in Newcastle. He travelled to Tyneside but was taken
ill on the eve of the 3-0 win.
The England international joins the injured trio of Romelu Lukaku (ankle),
Timo Werner (hamstring) and Mateo Kovacic (hamstring) in being unavailable
for our fourth group-stage match in this season's Champions League. The
Blues are in second place in our group, three points behind Juventus who
beat us in other game overseas so far.
Speaking at his pre-match media conference at Cobham, prior to flying to
Malmo, Tuchel said:
'These four players are unfortunately still out. For Timo, Romelu and Kova
it is no surprise. For Mason, he does not feel really better and to stop
any speculation, it is not Covid. He is negative for that. He is just ill
and does not feel good enough to take part in training or take part in the
trip to Malmo.
'The good news is Christian Pulisic is back and back in the squad for
tomorrow.'
Pulisic has not played for Chelsea since scoring on the opening weekend of
the Premier League season. He was injured on international duty soon after.
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Christian Pulisic in Monday's training
Despite still being several players short of a full squad, with the Blues
victorious in the six games since the Juventus match, Tuchel reports a
good frame of mind in the camp.
'We are in a good place and I have the feeling that the group knows why we
are in a good place,' he said. 'We know what it takes to have these kinds
of results and know what effort we have to put in.
'We know what we have to do for it and that makes us confident and at the
same time, it sets the standards that you need to set every single match
that arrives, and it's coming again tomorrow.
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'We'll start from scratch, it's a Champions League away game, and we want
to win. We're self-confident enough to say it. We know what it takes and
it is up to us to deliver.'