Wonder Chelsea 'beaten Up' Brentford At Stamford Bridge, Thomas Tuchel: We Lost The Game In 10 Minutes

Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, is the target of Manchester United. (Photo: Twitter @ChelseaFC)

CHELSEA - Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel admitted he was surprised why his team could lose to Brentford with a score of 1-4 in the 31st week of the Premier League at Stamford Bridge Stadium, London, Saturday.

Tuchel said they only lost control for 10 minutes but were ultimately punished by Brentford's three quick goals.

"It's very frustrating because we took the lead through Toni (Rudiger)'s goal and we were completely in control up to that point," Tuchel said as quoted from Via Antara's official club website, Sunday, April 3.

The German explained it was difficult to create chances against Brentford and they stopped defending when they scored the opener.

According to him this is not something Chelsea often do and make them 'killed' in this match by Brentford who was able to take advantage of their mistakes.

"The last twenty minutes of the first half we were fine and we had a great start in the second half, going ahead too," explained Tuchel.

"After that, I'm not sure what happened but we lost the game completely in 10 minutes. Maybe we thought we were done and we should be punished in 10 minutes"

"We had a chance to turn it around. We had a goal disallowed and we had a lot of shots at the goalkeeper. We had a lot of big chances through Kai that we didn't take and then we knew what happened," continued Tuchel.

In this match, Chelsea lost 1-4 despite taking the lead through Antonio Rudiger, before Brentford finally replied thanks to goals from Vitaly Janelt (2), Christian Eriksen and Yoane Wissa.

This result makes Chelsea still stuck in third place with a score of 59 points from 29 matches, while Brentford has moved up to 14th in the standings with 33 points from 31 matches.