Coach Thomas Tuchel sees FC Bayern in a “totally unsatisfactory” phase after two defeats. He wants to draw strength from the situation – and not let public criticism get to him.
Coach Thomas Tuchel sees the mood at FC Bayern as “depressed” after two defeats, but still believes in his team’s chances of winning the title.
“Giving up is not an option, neither in the title race nor in the Champions League. It continues,” said the 50-year-old before the away game at VfL Bochum (Sunday, 5.30 p.m./DAZN). After the 3-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen last Saturday, the Munich team are clearly behind the league leaders in the Bundesliga, and they lost 1-0 to Lazio in the first leg of the round of 16 in the premier class.
“The mood is depressed because we expected a reaction from ourselves,” said Tuchel. The current situation is “totally unsatisfactory from a sporting point of view. Now of course it’s doubly so because the results are missing. I wasn’t 100 percent satisfied with how we appear and what our game looks like before,” the coach added. “It’s important to pull yourself out of it and draw strength from it and see it as a challenge.”
The public criticism of the team and its work does not influence him at all. “A lot is being unloaded on us right now, everything is ok, we don’t need any pity,” he said. Nevertheless, his team can travel to Bochum confidently. He himself has gotten into the habit of not reading public reports, opinions and comments. “Everyone has to decide for themselves what tone they want to use and how they report about us.” The criticism has little or nothing to do with him personally.
Source: Stern
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