Thomas Tuchel urges Chelsea to stop coasting after taking the lead

The Blues squandered a chance to top Champions League Group H when they were held to a 3-3 draw by

at the Gazprom Arena on Wednesday.

Thomas Tuchel

's team finished second in their group, two points behind group winners

, who defeated Sweden's

1-0 in the other game.

The German coach argued that his players were still taking his messages on board, but that they had developed a nasty habit of relaxing once they were ahead in games.

"I won't take it personally that you make a judgment here that my players are not listening to me, which I don't find so nice but I leave it with you and your opinion,"

said

Tuchel

.

"I think that we had a very good first 15 minutes and we stopped doing the things we did in the first 15 minutes.

"We were forgetting why we were the better team, because of the investment, the level of concentration, the level of physical investment was high enough to be the better team.

"Once this drops, five, 10 percent, and it does; once we start managing results and changing our behavior from what the score is, we get punished at the moment.

"It happened to us at West Ham and it happened again today. The reaction was good again, that shows me that it's not about what we can do, because we can do it.

"Suddenly when we concede two goals we can step up, we can show a reaction. But once we have the lead we give it away again, like also today.

"The last six minutes again we started playing balls back, we started not attacking in the same aggression, the same hunger as before and we got immediately punished, now twice."

The Blues were without some of their important players in midfield, including

,

, and

.

It seems that Injuries and fatigue took their toll on

's usually-rigid tactics, but Tuchel remains unsatisfied with the club’s current situation in west London.

"My analysis is very clear: our behavior changes when we have a lead and this is something we never did and we should never do,"

said Tuchel

.

"We do the things that we want to do on the highest level and we push ourselves and it hurts and it has to hurt.

"You have to play through pain - physical pain - and you have to raise your level of concentration and you have to overcome adversity.

"If you change your behavior because of the score, you allow the possibility to get punished. And it's very easy; we need a higher level of sprints, a higher level of runs, a higher level of intensity and concentration.

"It's as easy as the basics. The basics need to be pushed onto a higher level while we are in the lead."

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