Thomas Tuchel’s side Chelsea were defeated 4-1 by Brentford on Saturday afternoon and the German has called on the fans to rally behind the team against Real Madrid.

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has demanded a “better atmosphere” from the Chelsea supporters for their UEFA Champions League quarter-final clash against Spanish giants Real Madrid on Wednesday.

Thomas Tuchel described the atmosphere at Stamford Bridge as “bizarre” after their defeat on Saturday afternoon.

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“It was a bit bizarre. We need better atmosphere against Real Madrid. In the first-half, it felt a bit like a friendly match,” Tuchel said.

Antonio Rudiger’s superb goal at the start of the second-half gave only gave the fans little to shout about.

However, some blues fans were bit disappointed in the players for not giving them much to shout about.

The Blues welcomes Blaugrana’s to west London on Wednesday evening in the quarter-finals 1st leg of the Champions League.

The German coach Tuchel admitted, they struggled and also looked tired. “Maybe if we lost 1-0 or 2-0, or starting too late. But this was not the case. We struggled in the beginning but I felt us more tired mentally. Not fresh enough. This is normal”Yesterday, we were wearing gloves and it was snowing in training.

“Today, it was very, very warm. Again, it’s more difficult for us than them to play as the underdog and be well prepared for this match“.

“We are well prepared but are in one half of a training session“.

“It is more difficult, but in the context of all this I am ok with the first half. The half-time speech was like this: a reminder to keep on going, a reminder of where the spaces are, where we want to accelerate, where we want to stay patient, where we want to take more risks and it would come with more fluidity. And it did. We started very well“.

“I did not see the distraction there so why should we be distracted and think about Real Madrid when we are one goal ahead. Maybe it was the general feeling that now we are ahead and have it, and we got punished for that.”