Tuchel’s bestial crack: “You have to have a lot of balls to raise the flag”

Bayern Munich left the Santiago Bernabéu in absolute fury after a Matthijs de Ligt shot failed to get on the scoreboard as Marciniak was ruled a millimetric offside before his shot.

The rule says that the advantage should be given and that it should be decided by VAR, but the linesman decided to raise the flag when he considered that Mazraoui, who fought the ball, was in a advanced position.

“The icing on the cake. An absolute disaster!”

Since this could not happen, Thomas Tuchel came out very hot on the DAZN microphones and condemned, like the rest of the locker room, the Polish referee’s decision in the 112th minute of the match and could cost them an extra time. . “The last scene was the icing on the cake. It was an absolute disaster! Real Madrid’s second goal ended the game. The referee didn’t have to shoot. It was a violation of the rules.”

Already in the press conference, Tuchel’s heat has not yet cooled down and he walked away, even knocking on the table. “You have to have a lot of balls to raise the flag when you’re not clear about it and then it’s a whistle. It’s a double failure,” said the Bayern coach, adding that “it’s pretty clear and no one can doubt it.

“I feel a little strange”

“The first big mistake was from the linesman. In extra time he also did it with Alphonso Davies… I have a slightly different feeling… you can’t be sure it’s offside. And having the balls and the strength of courage to raise the flag in this situation was a big mistake, we won the rebound and shot in five seconds, but the referee decided to blow the whistle;

“We accept the referee’s apology, but in a semi-final this is not the time to apologise. This is not the time to make two such serious offences. The referees have to be at the highest level and there is no point in apologizing. If he can’t offer his best version, his apology is of no use to us,” insisted Tuchel during the referee’s controversy.

“Anger” after the white comeback

Tuchel said he did not understand why his side did not progress to the Wembley final after a match in which they lost thanks to goals from Joselu Mato in the 88th and 90th minutes.

“I’m angry. I told the team we can’t play a perfect game, but we can handle it. We had chances to counterattack… we had good chances in terms of counterattacks. That gave us some oxygen, of course. We almost reached the goal, but we gave it our all. I don’t know if this is the most bitter defeat I’ve ever had, I’ve had someone else in the finals… but I did we’ve had everything and we don’t understand why it wasn’t enough,” he analyzed.

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physical problems

Furthermore, the German coach regretted the physical problems of his team which, in his opinion, conditioned the match and his entire season.

“We started with four offensive players and we had to replace four. No change was active, we had to respond to injuries; we had to do it every game this season. We haven’t been able to change the game, we always have to -reacted through the changes and it was too much. Besides, during the tie, Pavlovic wasn’t there and we were inferior,” he declared.

“It’s the first time Alphonso Davies has played as a left winger, we don’t have many alternatives in attack, with Kane having back problems… You want to have the opportunity to have a full competition with the players available ,” he continued.

Defend Neuer

On the other hand, he defended his goalkeeper and captain, who missed Joselu’s equalizing goal: “Manuel Neuer could have done more, but always makes mistakes. He had to do it today after a world-class game… it was something very bitter. He didn’t deserve everything he went through. I don’t know if we will know in the next 50 years why this happened; He is chosen but he is the saddest.”