Chelsea have confirmed the final match of their pre-season tour of the USA and will face Borussia Dortmund in Chicago. The game will be the Blues' fifth game of the East Coast trip and will take place on August 2nd at Soldier Field.
The club's schedule in America sees them play Wrexham, Brighton, Newcastle United, Fulham and Borussia Dortmund across five different cities. They will take in stadiums in Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Landover and Chicago.
The games against Premier League sides form part of the Premier League summer series, while games against Wrexham and Dortmund punctuate the trip with the match against the team owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney coming first on July 19th.
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Chelsea return to the USA, after a problematic trip to the country for last pre-season. On that occasion Chelsea travelled across both coasts with a training camp in Los Angeles beginning a tour that also hit Las Vegas, North Carolina and Florida.
Even though he was not in charge at the time, former boss Graham Potter hinted at problems on that occasion. He said: "It's really tough. My quote a few weeks ago is that it's the toughest job in football, and there are reasons for that. Speaking to a few of the experienced guys, they said it was the worst pre-season they've had. Organisationally, the tour didn't work as well as they'd like. I wasn't there so I can't say."
Thomas Tuchel did not hide the difficulties that arose during the period at the time either.
He said: "It's quite a challenge after change already the third time the location," he told Chelsea's in-house media on the changes across the USA.
"A lot of travelling, another time zone, a totally different feeling of temperature, huge humidity, so very demanding for first training and the players are struggling with the heat. We give maybe more time and space to drink – more break – but we can’t hide from the fact we’re in pre-season and we have to, somehow, put kilometres into the legs. From this point, we don’t adapt."
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