"Sixteen points sounds too much," Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel thinks they are out of the Premier League title race

Thomas Tuchel during an interview has expressed his opinions on the ongoing Premier League. Chelsea is now targeting to secure a spot in the top 4 instead of going for the Title. However, at the beginning of the league, Chelsea was the favorite to win the title after the way they started their campaign. But they have only picked up one victory in their last five league matches.

Manchester United, West Ham, Arsenal, and Tottenham are in a battle to secure the Champions League spot and Tuchel said third-placed Chelsea need to look over their shoulder rather than looking to compete with City and Liverpool.

What did Thomas Tuchel say?

"Everything is quite hard and that is the challenge," he told a news conference on Friday. "Sixteen points sounds too much, it's too much to where we want to be and what we demand of ourselves.

"We should not get confused in thinking about winning the Premier League. iWe have to realise we are in the race for the top four right now which is a huge thing in the Premier League in general.

We will not start judging competitions now. The most important thing is tomorrow against Crystal Palace and after that, we switch because we are in a lot of competitions which is a good sign, we should not lose faith now."

Tuchel on Lukaku's Transfer

Romelu Lukaku's homecoming was pretty much hyped by the fans after his performances at Inter Milan. However, the Belgian international has failed to make an immediate mark on the league. Even though he scored goals in their Club World Cup triumph, it tallied his stats to only 10 goals in all competitions so far.

"We need a bit of more patience than we perhaps all wanted to have with his signing," Tuchel said on the striker's performances. "We demand a lot of our strikers in terms of intensity, so there are several reasons why things are maybe like this.

He further added:

"There are teams who heavily rely on one goal scorer, that is no secret, but there are teams who rely on more shoulders. So both ways work and we want to bring Romelu to better situations. It's an ongoing process.

"We still have trust because he has proved at any of the clubs he's been that he is the guy who gets the last touch on the end of attacks.

"Disappointed is not the right word but, of course, we thought for him, I'm pretty sure for him as well he wanted to produce the numbers right from the start. We are all humans and we keep on going."

However, a piece of good news from Thomas Tuchel was that Mason Mount is pushing for his recovery to appear for the Carabao Cup final against Liverpool on 27th February.