Thomas Tuchel’s words on debut star Lewis Hall

After an easy win, his shining performance was the easy hook for journalists to hang a story on, and the moment the press conference after the win started, they were asking Thomas Tuchel what he’d made of the kid.

His answer showed exactly how positive he feels about using academy players in the future:

“It was his performance and attitude in training. The attitude his showed in our possession games and small-sided games. He was good and deserved to start. We needed a pause for Toni, Azpi and Marcos in the defence and we had three defenders left and he was one of them,” Tuchel explained in quotes picked up by Football.London.