Arguments with experts reverberate
Tuchel extremely irritated before the top game: “I’d be happy to ask you the next question”
November 4th, 2023, 6:33 p.m
Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel and the Sky experts will probably no longer be best friends. Before Munich’s top Bundesliga game at Borussia Dortmund, the coach reacted extremely irritably. The fact that Tuchel counts the Sky experts had a history.
Shortly before the top game at Borussia Dortmund, Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel reacted irritably to questions from the pay TV channel Sky. “I don’t want to bother you when the experts talk about us,” Tuchel replied in an interview with Sky reporter Patrick Wasserziehr. The 50-year-old was initially curt and asked: “I’d be happy to ask you the next question.” Wasserziehr’s objection about what had bothered him was followed by: “Nothing, everything’s fine.”
The fact that the Bayern coach counted the Sky experts had a history. Lothar Matthäus and Dietmar Hamann had recently repeatedly criticized Bayern’s style of play and concluded that there was no further development under Tuchel. On Friday during the Munich press conference, Tuchel countered: “I don’t see any further development with either of them.”
On Saturday, Matthäus initially said that this reaction was “cool.” However, after Tuchel’s interview shortly before the game, the 62-year-old said: “Today he didn’t make a confident impression. I hope that the team appears more confident.” Afterwards the conversation relaxed and Tuchel gave more detailed information about the record champions’ team. “We have a strong lineup,” he said.
Central defender Dayot Upamecano and defensive midfielder Leon Goretzka returned to the starting eleven. The recently ailing professionals are alleviating the personnel shortage in this groundbreaking duel. The German national player Goretzka had only recently returned to training after a metacarpal fracture, the Frenchman Upamecano after a muscle injury in his left thigh. Tuchel can even allow himself the luxury of doing without Thomas Müller – Jamal Musiala plays Harry Kane behind the top.
Shortly after Tuchel, club boss Christian Dreesen stepped in front of the microphone on Sky and, among other things, announced new staff in the winter. “If we deem it necessary to strengthen ourselves in one place or another, we will do so.” Tuchel had already called for further reinforcements before the start of the season to no avail. Honorary President Uli Hoeneß recently emphasized that Tuchel would get “everything” that was necessary in the winter. Things had recently become tight for the coach, especially in defense. “We still have top quality in the squad. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t want to get even stronger,” said Dreesen.