Chelsea beat Leicester City 2-1 on Saturday, and the game was made even tougher after Conor Gallagher’s early sending off for two bookable offences.
Chelsea were facing an uphill battle and it took the first two goals at his new club from Raheem Sterling to get the breakthrough and seal all three points for The Blues. It was a great moment for Sterling, who was yet to get on the scoresheet at his new club.
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Thomas Tuchel though, knew the goal would come and knows even more will come, because he says this is just what Sterling has done in this league all of his career.
The Blues boss though, admits that in the game Sterling was struggling with his confidence on the ball. The head coach has been speaking on the Chelsea website in some snippets released over night.
“Everybody is waiting for the goals, he is waiting for the goals, he is here to score and he is never shy to say it and take this responsibility,” said the boss.
“It’s on us to give him the opportunities, but there is not one percent of doubt to do it because he has done it for years and years in this league. He is mobile, he is dangerous, he breaks the lines.
“He struggled a little bit with his confidence and his dribbling [against Leicester], you could see it, then we were one man down and it was not obvious he would get chances to score, but he got three of them and scored twice. It was super important not only for us, but also for him individually.”
There is always a lot of pressure on Chelsea forwards to come up with the goods, let’s hope this is the start of it for Sterling!
