Tuchel is clear that all this makes it “almost impossible”. After all, a glimmer of hope has returned to the Blues that “dreaming is always allowed,” emphasized the 48-year-old. It sounded very different last week.
“Disappointed” and “angry” after the first leg
Tuchel was “disappointed” and “angry” after the humiliation by Madrid for the outstanding triple goalscorer Karim Benzema. He hadn’t seen any chances of reaching the semi-finals in the “moment”.
After the international break, the team had recently been completely lost. A 4-1 defeat by Brentford FC was followed by the debacle against Real. With this performance, his team would “lose again in the league and then be beaten up in the Bernabeu”, Tuchel had predicted.