Champions League
Apr 12, 2017 5.45pm
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HT : 0 2
FT
  • Sokratis Papastathopoulos 16' yellowcard
  • Matthias Ginter 40' yellowcard
  • Ousmane Dembele 57' goal
  • Shinji Kagawa 84' goal
  • goal Kylian Mbappe 20'
  • goal Sven Bender 35' (OG)
  • yellowcard Jemerson 46'
  • yellowcard Thomas Lemar 58'
  • yellowcard Nabil Dirar 69'
  • goal Kylian Mbappe 79'
  • yellowcard Fabinho 81'
  • yellowcard Danijel Subasic 87'

Thomas Tuchel unhappy Borussia Dortmund made to play a day after bomb attack

Tuchel unhappy with swift rescheduling

Borussia Dortmund head coach Thomas Tuchel has hit out at "someone in Switzerland" after the club were made to play their Champions League quarter-final first leg against AS Monaco less than 24 hours after an attack on their team bus.

The Bundesliga side's coach was damaged by three explosions as the team was making their way from the team hotel to the Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday, with defender Marc Bartra requiring surgery on a fractured wrist and shrapnel wounds following the blast.

Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke visited the team before kickoff and spoke defiantly of the club wishing to "show society that we will not bow to terror", but Tuchel questioned UEFA's decision not to allow more time for the players to get over the shock of the incident.

"There are players who can easily deal with what's happened and others who worry more – very mixed feelings," Tuchel told Sky Sports News. "We wished we would have wished for more time to deal with what happened but someone in Switzerland decided we have to play.

"It's not very fair. What happened yesterday happened to us as people. Every player has the right to start with a strange feeling. We've been left feeling a bit helpless by the decision. But professionals find solutions to problems. We are strong enough."

The rescheduled game saw Dortmund fall to a 3-2 defeat against Monaco.

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