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This is what Thomas Tuchel says about the final
Paris Saint-Germain moves into the first premier class final in the club’s history after a clear win against RB Leipzig. Coach Thomas Tuchel knows how hard it was worked.
Paris Saint-Germain defeated RB Leipzig in the semi-finals of the Champions League without any problems. Nevertheless, coach Thomas Tuchel is angry. He limps onto the field and takes a coach from the Saxons.
THilo Kehrer and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting looked a bit embarrassed as witnesses to this dispute. After the superior move into the final of the Champions League with Paris Saint-Germain against RB Leipzig (3-0) Thomas Tuchel had a mission.
The German, handicapped by a metatarsal fracture, hobbled onto the field on crutches. But not to celebrate with his players, but to get a coach for the opponent.
On the lawn, Tuchel briefly but strongly scolded Kehrer’s and Choupo-Moting interlocutor Daniel Behlau. Tuchel snapped, among other things, the word “shame” in the direction of Behlau.
Tuchel angrily talks to Daniel Behlau (right)
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What happened? The Saxon athletics coach, whom the German PSG players still know from their Schalker times, had interfered too much in a debate between him and Leipzig’s coach Julian Nagelsmann for Tuchel’s taste. In addition, he had repeatedly complained about the alleged swallows of Neymar and his teammates during the game.
Nagelsmann apologizes for the many fouls
“It’s a shame that you don’t admit it,” Tuchel threw at his counterpart. Behlau stayed calm this time and tried in vain to calm the situation down with two “congratulations on the win”.
During the game, Tuchel and Nagelsmann had already exchanged ideas intensively. In contrast to Behlau, Nagelsmann did not later complain about the opponent’s alleged epilepsy, but instead admitted an unusually high number of fouls by his players. This was not done out of malice, but because the PSG stars were simply too fast for his own.
“I didn’t like that,” says Tuchel
“We fouled a lot. You can also read that statistically. That wasn’t planned either, we were just often running late, ”said the 33-year-old. It is completely normal for Tuchel to be upset about this. “He complained to protect his players,” said Nagelsmann. This is how Tuchel saw it, who explicitly excluded Nagelsmann from his criticism: “That is completely okay for two head coaches.” However, he found the interference of a third party inappropriate: “I didn’t like that.”
A dispute like the one in the quarter-finals with Atlético Madrid coach Diego Simeone was hard to imagine for Nagelsmann and his own ex-coach Tuchel anyway. Even after the game, everything was unspectacular, Nagelsmann reported: “After the final whistle, I said, congratulations, good luck in the final and see you soon.”
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