Thomas Tuchel has admitted that his own personal record against Manchester United will come in handy when his Chelsea side face off against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team on Sunday. The Blues have enjoyed a good run of form since Tuchel came in to replace Frank Lampard.
Thomas Tuchel has already faced Manchester United this season (Image: GETTY)
The two sides both won one game between them and it was a similar story back in 2019 when United recorded an impressive comeback in the Champions League knockout tie.
Tuchel isn't planning to bring up clips of PSG's two group matches against United earlier this season, but the Chelsea boss admits it does give them a certain advantage.
"For sure, we played twice against them in the CL and unfortunately we lost both home matches but won both away games, it was a strange result," he said.
"We hope we can turn this around but as you see they are unbeaten in the Premier League in away games.
"The challenge is big, they like to have space to play counter attacks, they like to use their speed and to absorb your speed in their own half and all the quality they have.
"But it helps because we played two consecutive years against them, tough matches but we will use that knowledge."
He added: "It helps that you know the style, strengths, the weaknesses and it helps you to prepare but we won't show pictures from these [PSG] games to help the team.
"We will focus on the last four weeks as always but to have a clear picture from the last two fixtures this season or the knockout that we played one and a half years ago gives a pretty good impression on the style they want to play, the spaces where they want to hurt us, their strengths individually and as a group. That helps us to prepare.
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PSG played a part in knocking Manchester United out of the Champions League (Image: GETTY)
"We will underline our opinion and knowledge from Man United for the last four weeks like always and prepare our team as always to hopefully win this match.
"In the end, we will focus on us and what we need to do to win this difficult match.
"There's a lot to do but we are on a good run and it will be a big challenge to be the first to beat them in an away game."