Thomas Tuchel is happy to be on the winning side of the VAR in West Ham's victory.

Thomas Tuchel has said that he was relieved to have been on the right side of a contentious VAR decision in Chelsea's 2-1 victory over West Ham.

Kai Havertz gave Chelsea what turned out to be a late lead, but in stoppage time, West Ham ran right down the other end, and Maxwel Cornet blasted home into an empty net after goalkeeper Edouard Mendy was left on the ground following a collision with Jarrod Bowen.

Despite the fact that there was hardly any touch, VAR decided to annul the goal and give Chelsea the victory. Following the referee issue that got him in trouble following last month's 2-2 draw with Tottenham, Tuchel believed that it was only fair that he received some justice.

"It was a clear foul on the goalkeeper," he told BBC Sport. "I had doubts about the first one [West Ham's opener] - but I will not comment. Last time I got punished with huge fines. You give your opinion. You will not be fined."

Tuchel added in his press conference: "It went in our favour, and there's a reason it went in our favour. In my opinion, it is a foul. I will not comment anymore, but what happened against Tottenham was so obvious, and I paid a lot of money for commenting, so I will not do it."

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West Ham boss David Moyes proceeded to describe the VAR call as 'scandalous' and 'rotten', before Declan Rice took to Twitter to add: "That’s up there with one of the worst VAR decisions made since it’s come into the game. Shambles."

Chelsea ended the game with 69% possession but mustered up the same number of shots on target as their opponents as, once again, they failed to make their dominance count, but Tuchel insisted he was not particularly concerned.

"[West Ham] make you underperform, make it difficult to accelerate the game," he said. "If you find them, it's in spaces that are not dangerous. This is what they do. It's hard to create half-chances, deliveries and it's almost impossible to come back when they are ahead.

"We didn't play with the biggest belief and self-confidence given the last results and I understand that. I was not angry with our players and I told them to keep believing and find the rhythm. It's very hard to play a really attractive game against West Ham because they do what they do at the highest level."