Non league Matlock Town have chosen to hit back at Thomas Tuchel’s pathetic excuse for his Chelsea side losing to Leeds on Sunday.
The German oddly blamed a cancelled flight for Chelsea’s humiliating 3-0 defeat at Elland Road,, seeing the Blues fall behind after 33 minutes when goalkeeper Edouard Mendy gifted the ball to Brenden Aaronson to score.
Rodrigo doubled Leeds’ lead four minutes later by heading in a free-kick from Jack Harrison, who scored himself in the second half before Kalidou Koulibaly was sent off with six minutes to go.
A tetchy Tuchel claimed his side were the better team before Mendy’s mistake and used the coaching staff’s disrupted travel plans on Saturday as an excuse.
‘Everything that can go wrong, did go wrong,’ said the Chelsea boss. ‘It started yesterday. We had no plane arrive so we came on the bus. The players could fly but for the coaching staff it was a long ride on the bus.
‘It continued today. We lost the game in the first 20 minutes, where we were clearly better and had huge chances. We missed the target and did not take what we deserved. We created enough chances to be 2-0 up.
‘We were clearly the better team and then we gave two presents. We lost our discipline. We scored an own goal (Mendy’s mistake) and gave away a cheap set-piece and conceded from a set-piece. They are mistakes.
‘It is nothing to do with pressing, nothing to do with running less kilometres and nothing to do with the style of Leeds. I don’t see the connection that we lost to the style of Leeds.
‘For you, this is the story, for me it is not. It is more our fault than anybody else’s credit.’
This comment caught the attention of Northern Premier League outfit Matlock Town, who tweeted: “We travelled nearly six hours on a coach on Saturday that included players, management, committee members and supporters.
“A lot worked the Friday and then worked on the Sunday, the same for a lot of non-league sides up and down the country 🤷♂️
“Thoughts with Thomas at this time”
We travelled nearly six hours on a coach on Saturday that included players, management, committee members and supporters.
A lot worked the Friday and then worked on the Sunday, the same for a lot of non-league sides up and down the country 🤷♂️
Thoughts with Thomas at this time. https://t.co/ShtqNP0Slw pic.twitter.com/H3KQG2FZGh
— 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗙𝗖 | Est 1878 (@Matlock_TownFC) August 21, 2022
Fans gave their reaction as non league Matlock Town hit back at Thomas Tuchel’s pathetic excuse for losing to Leeds…
@WestSussexRam: Clearly the coaching staff were too tired to tell their keeper not to dribble the ball on his goal line!
@dogavic: Premier league cissies don’t know they’re born. Tuchel has a record of this kind of self pitying sentiment. You can only laugh.
@UTM_Mariners: Haha, our thoughts also with Thomas, as it feels like we generally have that distance on Saturday AND Tuesday every other week.
@vickydrip: They’ve completely lost touch with reality! He needs to read the room.
@wallyd86: Non league all the way
@135notout: Reality check!
@Custardboy2: @ChelseaFC 👀😘
@ForeverAYellow: Whatever your football allegiances your heart has to go out to Chelsea here. Surely they should replay the game? Is there a just giving page or something?
LewyDeWolf: This is such a Klopp excuse hahahaha
daveyvermaak: Oh No!!!! 5Hrs on a luxury coach I suppose. Not even doing any driving. Egits. That’s a very very flimsy excuse at best.
NicolaPartridg2: That London to Leeds stretch on a fancy coach is a killer. Makes all the game prep you’ve worked on all week just disappear. No idea how the travel situation translates into a needless back pass and a Mendy shit show but clearly it did.
mjclaridge: Tuchel’s comments epitomise what’s wrong with football. Implying flying is ‘normal’ reveals how distanced the game is from reality. It’s 200 miles by road. Three-and-a-half hours. Part time teams do it all the time. And Premier League players don’t have any other jobs to go to!
NottsCounty1991: Oh no poor staff travelling by coach from London to Yorkshire! Really feel for them
@paulredshaw: ffs ive heard it all now, why can the just hold his hands up and say look leeds deserved all three points and were the better side?!

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