At close range and completely unmarked, Werner still couldn’t score.
In the 10th minute, after Chelsea’s quick counterattack, the ball was stuffed into the penalty area by Mason Mount for Christian Pulisic to head in for Werner.
In the Champions League alone, Werner has appeared on the field in nine of Chelsea’s 10 matches since the beginning of the season, but squandered three good opportunities, failing to score any goals from live ball situations.
In all competitions this season, Werner has missed 21 good opportunities.
Missed the most opportunities* counting the 5 biggest European national championships + Champions League and Europa League
Player
Miss
Scored
Duvan Zapata
28
13
Cristiano Ronaldo
28
22
Robert Lewandowski
23
thirty first
Karim Benzema
23
18
Erling Haaland
22
30
Mohamed Salah
21
18
Timo Werner
21
8
Patrick Bamford
21
7
`Timo just missed a good chance against West Ham, and now he’s wasted another chance like that. It’s true that this is not good, but it’s also not good to keep crying or regretting forever,`
But former Man Utd midfielder Rio Ferdinand, on BT Sports’ live commentary program, criticized Tuchel for favoring Werner too much.
Werner is still rated 6.8 points by Whoscored – fifth best among Chelsea players, but his failure to eat at the beginning of the match caused him to attract a storm of criticism.
On social networks, countless criticisms were directed at Werner.
Another fan had a bad feeling: `Timo Werner could be the reason why we can’t win the Champions League this season. I can’t explain why he keeps failing week after week. Before West