Dortmund boss fury at UEFA
BORUSSIA DORTMUND coach Thomas
Tuchel attacked UEFA as his side fell 3-2 to Monaco in the Champions League.
The quarter-final first leg was hastily rearranged after Dortmund’s team bus was hit by three bombs on Tuesday.
Tuchel said: “We wanted more time to deal with things but we were told we have to play. Not very fair.”
Defender Marc Bartra had an operation on a broken wrist suffered in the attack and team-mate Nuri Sahin said: “It was difficult to think about football.”
® BORUSSIA DORTMUND coach Thomas Tuchel savaged UEFA after they were forced to stage their Champions League quarter-final first-leg tie against Monaco just a day after their team coach was hit by a triple bomb blast.
The players were left traumatised after the terrorist attack, leaving Spanish international defender Marc Bartra in hospital with cuts and a broken wrist.
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Monaco showed no mercy, beating Borussia 3-2 in front of a sell-out crowd at the Westfalenstadion.
Tuchel was furious that the match was allowed to go ahead so soon, with UEFA claiming they had consulted both clubs.
Tuchel insisted: “We weren’t asked at any point. We were told by text message that the decision had been made in Switzerland.
“When they told us, ‘You’re up tomorrow’, we felt completely ignored.
“We would have liked more time to take stock. This gives you the feeling of impotence, that we have to keep functioning and nothing else matters.
“I encouraged everyone to take the game seriously but football is not the most important thing in the world.”
Fabinho missed a penalty for Monaco before Mbappe scored a flukey first and they doubled their lead when Sven Bender diverted Andrea Raggi’s cross into his own net 10 minutes before half-time.
Ousmane Dembele pulled one back for Dortmund after 57 minutes but Mbappe scored a second before Shinji Kagawa gave Dortmund hope for next week’s second leg.