BREAKING: Tuchel puts high pressure on referee ahead of Leeds clash
The Blues are away to Leeds United at Elland Road tonight, and Anthony Taylor will be the centre referee for this game.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has asked for fairness from the middle man, as he hinted that Leeds may try to be too physical on his players.
Tuchel said ahead of the game: “The referee’s role is always very important.”
“We have seen it in their last games with big physicality and they take huge risks also in challenges, which is fair enough, but I don’t feel comfortable in predicting this in our game.
“We have to deal with it and of course we expect a certain level of fair play but we cannot in our position leave players out because we fear they will get injured.
“We need to check carefully because we had a high intensity to our data comparison in the match against Wolverhampton, we expect a high intensity match in Leeds away and we have one day less to recover for Saturday, which will not be a walk in the park for sure.
“Now we have three high-intensity matches and we need to see how we manage this through the week but not in terms of us being scared of injury. We cannot be. We trust the refereeing and we trust the opponent that a certain level of fair play will not be crossed, which also counts for us as well.”