Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel on beating Manchester United 1-0 to finish top of their UEFA Champions League group
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00:00 Hello everyone, welcome to the press conference
00:03 after Bayern's game against Manchester United with Thomas Tuchel.
00:08 We'll start with the questions, please give me a hand.
00:11 Here in the front on the left, please.
00:14 Hi Thomas.
00:17 Hi.
00:18 That seemed very comfortable. Is that a fair description of it?
00:23 It's never comfortable in Old Trafford, but we did good.
00:27 We found straight into the game, we defended very well as a team,
00:32 very aggressively. We did not allow any chances or half-chances,
00:36 so we also needed to defend dangerous set-pieces.
00:40 If you have the impression it was comfortable, it's never comfortable,
00:45 we're never fully comfortable, but I think we deserved a win.
00:48 We needed a reaction, we got a reaction, we played with personality
00:52 and good energy and much more aggressive and a very higher level than in the last match.
00:59 It was one of our best performances in the group stage, over 90 minutes,
01:04 and we deserved to win.
01:05 You were very close last season, going out to Manchester City.
01:09 Is Harry Kane the difference-maker?
01:13 Is he the sub-person of eternity, this close?
01:16 Harry is always a difference-maker, 100 per cent, with his personality,
01:21 his calmness and his quality.
01:23 Of course the team knows that anything can happen in any minute with Harry up front.
01:29 He can always assist, he can always score.
01:32 He's calm and he's one of our top leaders in the group.
01:36 I think you could see that Man Utd suffers from the injuries they have.
01:43 They have big players injured, big personalities injured.
01:46 I think you can see that.
01:49 Of course we made it now as head of the group into the round of 16
01:56 and the full focus will be to go now step by step, there's no other way.
02:07 You know what it's like to manage in this country,
02:12 you obviously have got a team that is going to be one of the favourites
02:18 for the Champions League, you also know what will come on Eric Ten Haard now.
02:23 Do you ever feel sympathy for an opposition coach,
02:28 or is it too intense?
02:31 Almost always I feel sympathy for the other coach,
02:35 but of course within the competition we try everything to win our matches.
02:39 This is why we are, and this is what it is.
02:43 These are the rules of high-level sports and of sports in general
02:46 that we play on the highest level to win our matches.
02:49 But of course I have sympathy.
02:50 I just told you I think he has a lot of key players injured for a decisive match now
02:56 that you can see, and they lack this kind of personality and also the quality
03:02 and maybe the wits to change games from the bench.
03:06 So I think you could see that.
03:08 It's not an easy time, but I'm pretty sure that he knows what to do next,
03:19 he knows how to influence his team.
03:20 He does not need my advice, he does not need my clapping on the shoulders.
03:28 He's experienced enough to go through it.
03:31 I had not such a nice moment last Saturday,
03:35 sometimes you feel very lonely as a coach, I can tell you.
03:38 But in general I have sympathy for all of my colleagues
03:43 because I know what it takes to keep a thing going.
03:46 Are you surprised that all those Manchester United players
03:58 have entered the bottom of the group in a similar size environment?
04:01 Yeah, it is a huge club and it is of course not what you expect
04:05 when you see the group.
04:07 You immediately think that also Manchester United
04:12 is challenging for the win of the group and for a place in the Round of 16.
04:21 But in my experience I can just tell you we had a difficult group.
04:25 It looks now very clear for us in terms of points
04:28 and in terms of the distance that we earned for us in the points
04:32 between us and the rest, but the matches were all very, very tight.
04:37 The results were very narrow, the opponents were very difficult
04:43 and very different styles of play to play against.
04:47 You could see it in the results, everything was possible until today
04:53 for Man United and you can see it.
04:55 I think in some of the matches games changed in a blink of an eye for them.
05:01 They were pretty comfortable in Istanbul in the lead and they gave it away.
05:06 They were comfortable in the lead in Copenhagen,
05:09 which could have been decisive matches.
05:12 They scored a lot of points.
05:15 Like I say, it is a big club, it is also a big team,
05:19 it is a dangerous team that can hurt you at any minute.
05:22 That's why we are very happy that we could prove a point,
05:25 we could show a reaction and we can prove our reaction with a result.
05:29 That is amazing and we are happy for that.
05:32 Don't see any more signs. Thank you very much.
05:36 Nice evening.
05:37 Thank you.
05:38 See you, all the best.
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