‘I just heard him scream. It looked horrible.’
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel gave a grim insight to an injury suffered to defender Trevor Chalobah which required surgery in the dressing room.
Following the Blues’ defeat to Liverpool on penalties in the Carabao Cup final last weekend, Chalobah required surgery following a late challenge from Naby Keita on the defender, leaving his studs in an around the groin area.
Tuchel revealed during his press conference on Tuesday that Chalobah had in fact suffered a nasty injury to his penis – with a large gash needing to be fixed at full-time.
Despite suffering the injury early into the game, the 22-year-old played the whole game and his boss admired the ‘balls’ that Chalobah showed to carry on.
“I would say he has shown some balls – but that would be the wrong line,” Tuchel joked.
“I could not believe what I saw after the match. There was surgery literally in our dressing room and I am not joking.
“They were stitching him up. I could not believe it. After the match, after the press conference when I left they were doing the stitches, I just heard him scream. It looked horrible.”
Tuchel then admitted that he was surprised that Chalobah was able to continue after he saw the extent of the defender’s injury.
He added: “I went in and saw it, it looked horrible and I could not believe he played one more minute with this kind of injury but he played the rest of the match and scored a penalty in the shootout.
“This is really big. But he was really brave to do this. You could not look away. They had surgery, there were stitches there. He was the only one with the doctors and I heard the noise.
“Seriously, it was a proper cut, very close to the area of the groin. It was open and it needed to be closed. He was very tough and he has my full respect.”
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