<p>N'Golo Kante is out of Chelsea's Champions League match against Juventus on Wednesday after testing positive for coronavirus, manager Thomas Tuchel has confirmed.</p>.<p>Tuchel said the French World Cup winner, 30, was not in training on Tuesday ahead of the Group H match in Italy.</p>.<p>He said Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount would also be absent along with Reece James, who was injured against Manchester City at the weekend.</p>.<p>"Christian, Mason and Reece are out due to injury and N'Golo unfortunately tested positive and needs to quarantine and follow the government protocols," he told reporters.</p>.<p>"He was not in training today and is of course not with the group."</p>.<p>Tuchel admitted he does not know how many of his squad have been vaccinated but revealed he has received the jab himself.</p>.<p>The German said players must retain personal choice over Covid-19 vaccines, at the same time as hoping for a quick recovery for Kante.</p>.<p>"I don't know the percentage of players vaccinated actually," he said. "It's not even that I don't want to tell you but I simply don't know it.</p>.<p>"And we are also only a reflection of society, the players are adults and it's free choice if they want to get vaccinated or not. And I think we should accept it.</p>.<p>"Every time someone gets it here from us or from our group, it makes us very aware the Covid situation is not over."</p>.<p>Tuchel admitted the combination of a successful transfer window and winning the Champions League last season would make their task harder in the competition this year.</p>.<p>"It's hard to be seen as the underdog when you've just won the title but I think we came from a role not as the favourites last season and we got better with every match and we grew in confidence," he said.</p>.<p>"Now it is of course easy to make us the favourites," he added.</p>.<p>"We have the experience that it gets a higher value to play against us, it is a higher motivation to play against us and we have to accept this."</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>
<p>N'Golo Kante is out of Chelsea's Champions League match against Juventus on Wednesday after testing positive for coronavirus, manager Thomas Tuchel has confirmed.</p>.<p>Tuchel said the French World Cup winner, 30, was not in training on Tuesday ahead of the Group H match in Italy.</p>.<p>He said Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount would also be absent along with Reece James, who was injured against Manchester City at the weekend.</p>.<p>"Christian, Mason and Reece are out due to injury and N'Golo unfortunately tested positive and needs to quarantine and follow the government protocols," he told reporters.</p>.<p>"He was not in training today and is of course not with the group."</p>.<p>Tuchel admitted he does not know how many of his squad have been vaccinated but revealed he has received the jab himself.</p>.<p>The German said players must retain personal choice over Covid-19 vaccines, at the same time as hoping for a quick recovery for Kante.</p>.<p>"I don't know the percentage of players vaccinated actually," he said. "It's not even that I don't want to tell you but I simply don't know it.</p>.<p>"And we are also only a reflection of society, the players are adults and it's free choice if they want to get vaccinated or not. And I think we should accept it.</p>.<p>"Every time someone gets it here from us or from our group, it makes us very aware the Covid situation is not over."</p>.<p>Tuchel admitted the combination of a successful transfer window and winning the Champions League last season would make their task harder in the competition this year.</p>.<p>"It's hard to be seen as the underdog when you've just won the title but I think we came from a role not as the favourites last season and we got better with every match and we grew in confidence," he said.</p>.<p>"Now it is of course easy to make us the favourites," he added.</p>.<p>"We have the experience that it gets a higher value to play against us, it is a higher motivation to play against us and we have to accept this."</p>.<p><strong>Check out the latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>