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Timo Werner on Chelsea goal drought: I’ve never missed so many big chances, I felt guilty

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Chelsea striker Timo Werner says his first half a season in the Premier League was "the worst time of his career".

Werner arrived at Stamford Bridge in a deal worth around £50million, having scored 95 goals in 159 games for RB Leipzig.

It took him until his fifth Premier League game to score and a run of five goals in four games soon followed. However, a barren run of 13 games without hitting the back of the net - and just one time in 20 - coincided with Frank Lampard's sacking and more upheaval.

But Werner, who has improved since Thomas Tuchel's appointment, says the worst is behind him, telling Sky Sports: “The period where I didn't score was the worst time of my career because I'd never missed so many big chances,"

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"I'd never been so long without a goal, so I was very happy it ended two games ago. It was a difficult time without those feelings.

"When I look back at my half a year with Chelsea, it wasn't the most difficult time in my career, but the best time to learn new things. When you have a period without goals you learn something from yourself.

"You learn a lot about how you can handle these situations and it was the best time for me to learn the most in my career. From bad moments you learn the most and that's exactly what happened in the last month."

Werner admits to feeling guilty for missing big chances under Lampard, who was sacked following a run of just four wins in 11 games, and reveals to being surprised at how tough English football is.

"When you come here to play as a striker and be the man to score the goals, of course I felt a little bit guilty that I missed so many chances," he continued. "For the club, for the old manager but also for me because I want to score all the time and as much as I possibly can."

He added: "Everyone says there's a lot of strength, a lot of big guys in defence, the Premier League is very fast and there's a lot of high intensity. So, I came here and thought it would fit me very well, but now I know it is much more than just what people say.

"What I get now is that the Premier League is really hard. Every game, whether you play against the bottom side or the third side, it's always the same game.

"You can't go to the bottom side and say it's going to be an easy win today. You go to Burnley, you go to West Brom and it's a hard game. It's a very hard game and that's what makes it a lot of fun.

"You can never have a break. You always have to be at 100 per cent, always at the top level and that's something special in the Premier League."

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