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On October 18th, Christian Pulisic’s book. “Christian Pulisic: My Journey So Far” will be released. The book will encompass his growth from a soccer player in Hershey Pennsylvania to his current role at Chelsea as he heads to the World Cup leading the United States men’s national team. But in the book, he had some scathing comments about former Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel.
According to Pulisic, he was misled by Tuchel into believing that he’d start the 202-21 Champions League second leg against Real Madrid which Chelsea won 3-2, but it wasn’t enough to advance to the next round as they lost 5-4 on aggregate to Los Blancos.
“What happened before that game was hugely disappointing for me. l’d had a really good first leg performance and our following match was against Fulham in the league.” Pulisic said in an excerpt of his upcoming book. “Tuchel told me that he was resting me for the second leg and as a result, I didn’t play a single minute in the Fulham game. Then on match day of the second semi, Tuchel tells me he’s changed his mind and he’s going with Kai [Havertz]. I honestly was dumbfounded and very disappointed.”
It also wasn’t the only frosty thing that Pulisic had to say about his former manager. He also spoke about his goal in the first leg, which was the only goal Chelsea scored in that leg.
“The untold story behind that goal is that when [Antonio] Rudiger has the ball, I can see he’s looking to play it long over the top and I started my run to get in behind the Madrid backline.”, Pulisic said “But as I take off on the run, I hear Thomas Tuchel yelling from the sideline, “Christian, stay in the pocket, don’t make the run!” But I just had the feeling I’d find the space and get on the end of the pass, so I continued the run.”
Reading the excerpts it seems clear that Pulisic was frustrated under Tuchel although it seems fair to mention that he is talking about a season in which…
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