Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel believes the tie between Chelsea and Real Madrid is over after his side were beaten 3-1 at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening.
Karim Benzema stole the headlines with a hat-trick with Kai Havertz scoring what proved to be the consolation goal for the Blues.
With the second leg left to play, Tuchel when asked if the tie was over replied with a blunt “No”.
He went on to add: “If you want to put it on this sentence, put it on this sentence. I worry more about Southampton than I worry about Real Madrid in the next week. There is my focus. Today, is this alive? No. With this performance. First of all, we need to play Southampton and if we don’t get our heads straight and mentality right we will not win in Southampton. And then this tie is not alive.”
“If things change, maybe, but how many clubs in worldwide football won with three goals difference? How often did this happen? So maybe we should be realistic and should not get fatalistic and think that I give the wrong message. Let’s be honest. We are competitive and need to find our competitive spirit and our quality and then we can hope.”
Chelsea will look to go past Real Madrid in the second at the Bernabeu next Tuesday.
