Thomas Tuchel has dedicated Chelsea’s Champions League success against Porto to crocked Mateo Kovacic.

He said: “I was very sad yesterday to see him after twenty minutes in training to have this little muscle injury more or less out of nothing.

“We played little boxes after training just to have a little sweat and he felt his hamstring.

“So he is for sure out of the game against City as well, which is a big loss.

“I was very sad for him because we don’t have so many experienced players that have played Champions League many times.

“So if you see him when the anthem is playing and he stands there that he’s relaxed and he’s a hard fighter – everyone is happy to have him around. So we did it for him.”