“It hurts, it’s painful.”
If the Bayern Munich players gave everything on their pitch against Lazio, their coach Thomas Tuchel also gave of himself to pocket this precious qualification for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Entangled in a difficult season, far from the Bundesliga title, eliminated in the German Cup and in difficulty after their defeat in the round of 16 first leg of C1 against the Italians (0-1), the Munich residents escaped the Roman trap thanks to an excellent return match in their lair at the Allianz Arena (3-0).
At the microphone of the American channel CBS Sports, the former coach of PSG and Chelsea confided that he lost his temper in front of his players during his last talk before the meeting... to the point of fracturing his toe while hitting a foot in a door.
Thomas Tuchel reveals that he might have broken his toe after giving his pre-game team talk 😳 pic.twitter.com/aEbRP5RiBR
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) March 5, 2024
“During my last speech before leaving the locker room for the match, I knocked on a door, it was bad technique.
I feel like my toe is broken,” said the German coach after the match, before ironically commenting on his case at a press conference: “I don’t think I can take off my shoe.
The team was wondering why I was sitting for almost 90 minutes!
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A grotesque situation already experienced by the technician, who was injured before a Champions League meeting in 2020 with PSG.
He notably twisted his left ankle with a fracture of the 5th metatarsal during a sports session, a few days before a quarter-final against Atalanta (2-1 victory).