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Daniel Childs

Thomas Tuchel faces bleak £170m Chelsea question after Leeds as Raheem Sterling pledge not met

Few do implosions better than Chelsea.

Elland Road on Sunday will firmly add an unwanted collapse to Thomas Tuchel's regime. There were echoes of the 5-2 demolition at home to West Brom in April of 2021 as Jack Harrison's third went in to seal Chelsea's grim fate in a clumsy fashion.

Or shades of the 4-1 humbling to Brentford back in April as a frazzled defence was hit with two goals they could not recover from quickly. By the time Kalidou Kouliably saw red for a petulant tug of a shirt he never needed to pull, you'd be forgiven for bursting into pained laughter. It was just one of those days.

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