Thomas Tuchel praised his team highly despite the defeat at Manchester City in the first leg.
“I refuse because somehow I’m badmouthing the performance. I saw a very, very good performance up to the 70th minute. I’m very satisfied,” said Tuchel on Amazon Prime Video after the 0: 3. “There was absolutely more in it, we deserved much more.”
He also told his team that he refused to hang the game on the result, explained Tuchel. He and the professionals of the German record champions quickly disappeared into the dressing room after the defeat in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Manchester partially scored the goals from “not even half chances to score”, said Tuchel. They themselves deserved at least one goal and gave away one or two too many.
Rodri had given Manchester City the lead in the 27th minute. Bayern’s Dayot Upamecano started the 0:2 with a serious mistake by Bernardo Silva (70th). Super striker Erling Haaland (76th), preparer at 2-0, scored 3-0 for Manchester.
It was of course a very bitter result that they had to digest first, admitted Tuchel, who was eliminated as the new Bayern coach a week ago in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup.
He had already received the full program, said Tuchel, “but today I’m in love with my team”. It was fun coaching her. For the second leg on Wednesday next week in Munich, the 49-year-old, who won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021, announced: “Nothing will be given away.”
