As he pointed out, Kante missed half of last season, so Chelsea are very accustomed to playing without him, even though they’re clearly not as good.
“We have trust in our players. It will maybe be the same system,” Tuchel said in his press conference today, in quotes picked up by the Independent.
“We played many games, unfortunately, without him in the same structure. It will be slightly different because every player is a bit different.
“That is the challenge to adapt to this, use different players differently. To change completely because N’Golo is not there, I don’t think so.”
There will be minor tweaks here and there in terms of players and how they interact on the pitch, but fundamentally they will play in the same style and the same formation, which is how it should be.
We expect changes in the midfield regardless – the Conor Gallagher Jorginho double pivot was overrun entirely last weekend.
Even with players as good as Kante, a team can’t rely on them entirely.
