Jose Mourinho was right: It is easy to manage Chelsea, especially if their opponents play like his Tottenham Hotspur team did in a 1-0 loss to the Blues.
The Tottenham manager had a wry smile on his face when suggesting in the prematch press conference that "I don't think it's very difficult to coach" the Blues, citing his success there as a manager in addition to league titles for Carlo Ancelotti and Antonio Conte.
This was Thomas Tuchel's first big test since succeeding Frank Lampard, but he cannot have imagined it would ever be this comfortable, even if the scoreline suggests a degree of jeopardy right until the end.