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Chelsea manager Tuchel confirms injuries for Lukaku, Werner

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has confirmed Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner suffered injuries in the victory over Malmo on Wednesday.

Both players had to be substituted during the 4-0 win and are now in doubt to face Norwich City on Saturday.

"We have a twist of the ankle for Romelu, and muscle injury and hamstring for Timo, so they will be some days out I guess," Tuchel said after the game.

"Normally we are in a good place injury wise, only Christian Pulisic is out, but we miss everybody. We have a lot of games, lot fo competitions, so now we have to deal and find solutions, no excuses.

"The two were in good shape, they are dangerous and can create and score so now we need to find solutions and guys who waited for their chance need to step up and score. The race is on, the guys who start against Norwich have our trust and we will try to find new solutions.

"We have won games before with Werner and Lukaku, we don't want these problems too often but it happens during a season."

On the match, Tuchel added: "We wanted three points and wanted them deserved and we got both of those.

"We played to huge intensity, we demanded this from us and we played an excellent game until it was 4-0. We are very happy."

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