Tammy Abraham is the only No.9 to score under Tuchel.
The boss believes that it is his job to get the best out of Abraham, Giroud and Werner.
He does not doubt their quality, but they need help from their teammates, too.
“It’s my job to create spaces and create chances and make everybody understand how our strikers love to have the ball, how they can be the most dangerous guys they can be, because they have quality,” Thomas Tuchel told the official Chelsea website.
“Now it’s on us, on me and on their team-mates, to create the chances that they can score.
“We have guys here who can score and the good thing in arriving in the middle of a season is you don’t lose your head by thinking about other players. You focus all your energy in developing the potential that we have, and we have potential.
“Against Barnsley it was very hard to score because we had only nine touches in the box, it’s way too few for what we demand of ourselves, and we clearly have to work on that. We need to push the numbers back up to where they were against Tottenham, against Sheffield United.
“From there I need to get to know the players a little better, but it comes every day, and then we will find maybe some formations where it’s easier for us to score or to bring the strikers into good positions.”
For all the positive talk of Chelsea’s development with Tuchel in charge, only one of their goals under the current boss was scored by a striker: Tammy Abraham’s finish earned the Blues a 1-0 win over Barnsley last Thursday.
Timo Werner’s struggles are well documented, but Olivier Giroud has not scored in 2021 yet, either. If the Blues are to sustain a top-4 challenge, they’ll need to help their strikers to shine.
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