Tuchel leads from the front as Chelsea focus on the controllables

Chelsea's Mason Mount and manager Thomas Tuchel after the Emirates FA Cup quarter final match at the Riverside Stadium.

AS an expert in crisis management, Thomas Tuchel has passed every test with flying colours in the three weeks since Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine threw his professional world into turmoil.

Here, at the Riverside on Saturday, was the latest example in the German coach managing to combine doing - and saying - the right things while balancing the more prosaic matter of managing a football team.