Thomas Tuchel after the Bayern defeat in Mainz: lost face
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Pressure, pressure, always just pressure: you can see in the faces of Bayern that they are driven. Before this season’s titles, they’ve already lost something else.
Ppress conference in Mainz. Thomas Tuchel looks down. On the table in front of him. Then, as he takes the floor, he looks ahead, congratulates the opponent on their victory, and rubs both hands across his face. Until the cameras can’t see it anymore, neither the mouth nor the cheeks nor the eyes.
Then he pulls the cap with the logo of a sponsor and shareholder over his forehead. Even before he analyzed the 3-1 defeat and lamented the physical and mental state of his team, he already expressed in body language what Bayern and many football fans feel: FC Bayern has lost face.
