Thomas Tuchel, the former Chelsea boss and current Bayern Munich manager, reportedly gave his players a harsh dressing down after their disappointing 1-0 loss to Lazio.
According to Sky Germany, Tuchel told his team: «You're not as good as I thought, then I just have to adapt to your level.» This defeat, along with a 3-0 loss to Bayer Leverkusen, has put Tuchel under pressure as he nears his one-year anniversary at Bayern.
But the German boss isn't stressed about his position at the club just yet. «No, I'm not worried about my future.» On the midweek defeat, he said: «We did everything to lose this match. It was in our hands. At a certain point we stopped believing, I've no idea why. There were many individual mistakes.
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»We're frustrated and angry about the defeat. I think we lost the game, I'm not sure Lazio won it. I'm not sure why we lost our conviction in the second half, but we did, and then we fell behind.
«I can't explain it because we told the team to maintain their intensity and be even braver going forward, but we seemed to lose face at the start of the half.
»There are things we can build on. In the first half, we created some good chances, some big chances and one huge one with Jamal [Musiala], but in the end we didn't have a single shot on target.
«It's clear you can't win a game like that. But we've got a second leg and, obviously in conjunction with the last result, it doesn't look great, but we'll keep working hard.
Harry Kane also spoke up, telling TNT Sports: „It's been a really tough week,“
»In the first half we started well and had
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