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There were a lot of bad omens before Saturday’s 5-2 home loss to West Bromwich Albion (international break, early start, recent awards, several streaks, etc.) but for a brief moment, just before the average mark Now, it seemed like we could avoid being the butt of all the jokes on the weekly open mic night of the football gods.
Christian Pulisic tied the rebound from an excellent Marcos Alonso free kick that hit the post to give Chelsea the lead in the 27th minute and despite our sloppy play, terrible turnovers, and a general lack of cohesion and attention, It seemed like we could do it. Avoid becoming a glitch in Mat … ch Engine.
Unfortunately, two minutes later Thiago Silva was sent off (harshly), fifteen minutes later Chelsea conceded two goals in added time of the first half to the same player and then, without a minute of playing time, Christian Pulisic managed collect yet another hamstring strain. (And then West Brom scored three more times in the second half to make things more embarrassing.)
Thomas “Welcome to the real world” Tuchel confirmed Pulisic’s latest injury in an interview with the Chelsea website after the match.
“Christian did a sprint when he came back out for the second half and said he felt like his hamstring would not survive the game if he continued. So we had to make the decision to replace him immediately. “
-Thomas Tuchel; source: Chelsea FC via Goal
We had wondered how Timo Werner managed to stay on the field and why it took him so long to get out of the tunnel, but it looks like Tuchel was really going to get him out instead of Pulisic to introduce Mason Mount. But Pulisic stopped during the brief warm-up routine before the start of the second half, putting the team in scrambled mode.
The home of the Premier League in the US, NBChri-Stia-N, of course, had the relevant images.
NBCSN had footage of what happened to Pulisic’s replacement in the middle. He ran 10 yards to a cone, complained about his hamstring and Tuchel didn’t look happy about it. pic.twitter.com/TtSeb7BbP7
– Andrew Joseph (@ AndyJ0seph) April 3, 2021
Pulisic thus joins N’Golo Kanté among the hamstrings, adding even more concern to his increasingly troubling habit of sustaining hamstring injuries and various other soft tissue injuries. Captain Ameri-glass has not been consistently fit or healthy the last two years, not at Borussia Dortmund or at Chelsea, and that story is no longer easy to put aside and ignore.
Get well soon, Christian!
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