MALMO, Sweden Chelsea's propensity of sharing goals around is a remarkable trait that is helping Thomas Tuchel cope with the loss of his principal forwards, but nights like this would be much easier if Kai Havertz could join the party more often. The Blues have had 17 different scorers this season Manchester City are the next closest in England with 15, but Liverpool and Arsenal come next with 10 -- yet no single player has registered more than four.
Tuesday's 1-0 winin Malmo ensures Tuchel continues to keep Chelsea progressing nicely on all fronts this season despite only sporadically finding real fluidity in attack, a problem exacerbated at least in theory by losing primary strikers Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner to injury.
Havertz has assumed responsibility for leading the attack but in the fortnight since Lukaku and Werner limped off in the reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge, the Blues have scored 12 times in four matches without defeat. Havertz was responsible for just one of those, a header from a corner in a Carabao Cup fourth-round tie against Southampton in which Chelsea still required penalties to advance to the quarterfinals.
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