Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel had already confirmed that the absence of Ben Chilwell and Reece James may have gone some way in his decision to drop Romelu Lukaku for the first leg of the Lille Champions League clash.
Lukaku, 28, has come under severe criticism from the media in the last couple of days after it was revealed that he only made a mere seven touches in the whole of the Crystal Palace win.
"Ha, what can I do? I don't know. Well, now we have to deal with it, the data is out there and speaks a certain language," Tuchel said in his press conference on Monday afternoon.
