As of: February 15, 2024, 7:12 a.m
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Thomas Tuchel already seemed depressed during Munich's Champions League game at Lazio Rome.
The FC Bayern coach is visibly struggling.
Rome - “You have no explanation for it, Bayern.” DAZN expert Tim Borowski described the perplexity that had already occurred during the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 after Munich's 0-1 (0-0) draw at Lazio documented on the FC Bayern bench.
Tuchel scene shows complete Bayern shambles
Specifically: Coach Thomas Tuchel, who is starting to fear for his job, clapped his hands over his face in annoyance when the camera focused on the 50-year-old coach.
He sat hunched forward in his seat at the Sadio Olimpico di Roma and looked downright depressed.
The decisive 1-0 by ex-BVB striker Ciro Immobile (69th minute) had not yet been scored.
“We won’t blame each other now,” said the Bavarian Swabian after the game on
DAZN
and said soberly: “We’re having a hard time.
So far we have delivered results.
Now we're having a hard time creating scoring chances and converting them." He couldn't explain why that was the case in the TV interview immediately after the end of the game.
At a loss: Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel (Wed.) in Rome.
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Instead, he visibly struggled.
He didn't even see the penalty coming, he said, because he thought that Dayot Upamecano, who was sent off with a red card, had "blocked" the agile Gustav Isaksen.
The French central defender stepped on the 22-year-old Dane's ankle with an open sole.
“One half is not enough,” criticized Tuchel, while individual fans on X (formerly Twitter) called for the former Dortmund player to be fired.
At Bayern, Tuchel has now (as of February 14th) lost ten of 43 competitive games.
After the bitter 3-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen, the premier class defeat in the Italian capital was the next setback for the German record champions, who had actually set the Champions League final as their goal.
You can just feel the uncertainty.
I don't think it was the case from the start.
And so the question arises, why is it like this?
Manuel Neuer at DAZN
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After the defeat against the “Werkself”, individual Bayern fans on Säbener Strasse called for Tuchel to be kicked out.
“We have to stay together,” said the FCB coach at DAZN about the relationship between the coaching staff and the team.
In the interview, however, world champion Manuel Neuer missed the otherwise typical matter-of-factness in the game and also struggled, while even striker Harry Kane had disappeared at times in Rome.
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Neuer said at DAZN: “You can just feel the uncertainty.
I don't think it was the case from the start.
And so the question arises, why is it like this?
We still try to stay together.
We have to try to do as well as possible in the next game away from home in Bochum.
We need a sense of achievement.
We need positive emotions.
We need a win.” In any case, the collective research into the causes of Bavaria’s low form is in full swing.
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