I love the players and we have to do better together - Tuchel

The manager of the team held an "honest" meeting with his players where they could take criticism.

In the league, the Blues were beaten by four different teams and then lost to Real Madrid in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the European competition.

Tuchel said that it was not a discussion type of meeting.

Sometimes it is necessary to give my point of view.

After the international break, the club was sold following Roman Abramovich being sanctioned by the UK government.

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We always take the players view into account. Over the last two games, we felt it was necessary to give our point of view.

It was behind closed doors and everyone could take criticism.

We don't look for people who are guilty, we are in this together.

We had to point out some things in our game that we were not happy about.

We are aware of the problems and don't like them. I am not sure if we are concerned, but this is not typical for us.

We looked into it and talked to the team to figure out how to stop this direction of travel.

'It isn't amateur football'

The Blues face a trip to Saints in the top flight on Saturday.

Crystal Palace will play Real Madrid in the FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday, 17 April before the return leg against Real Madrid on Tuesday.

I don't know if the meeting is a turning point, you need to take care of the process. The process on Thursday was to be honest with the team and explain why it is like this.

The players understand if the manager is angry. I presented my reasons and we went.

From now on, everyone will have my support and my love for them, and they will have my appreciation for how they are as a group and as players.

You have to be honest when you handle things like this, it isn't amateur football.

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