{"id":636146,"date":"2024-02-19T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=636146"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:34:20","slug":"bayern-munich-make-tuchel-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/02\/19\/bayern-munich-make-tuchel-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich CEO Makes Huge Thomas Tuchel Decision After Loss To VfL Bochum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have opted to stand firm behind Thomas Tuchel despite losing three consecutive games. Sunday night&#8217;s 3-2 loss to Vfl Bochum saw <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/bundesliga\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern<\/a> drop eight points behind the Bundesliga leaders, Bayer Leverkusen. However, despite mounting pressure and speculation regarding Tuchel&#8217;s future, the club&#8217;s top brass remain confident in his ability to steer the team back on track, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1759339107455553967\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34 Bayern plan to keep going with Thomas Tuchel after internal discussion tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel: \u201cI feel the support, I know my relationship with CEO Dreesen and how we work together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows how much this situation annoys me and how much we are investing\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/er7XFQObuX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/er7XFQObuX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1759339107455553967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pressure Builds On Under-Fire Tuchel<\/h2>\n<h3>Bayern CEO Defends German Coach<\/h3>\n<p>Jan-Christian Dreesen, Bayern&#8217;s CEO, reiterated the club&#8217;s support for Tuchel, brushing aside talks of his dismissal. &#8220;I don\u2019t believe in these monstrous statements of support for coaches. I know what you want to hear, but these oaths of loyalty are already over after a week. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m saying it in my own way. That&#8217;s not a topic we&#8217;re dealing with at the moment. We have to move on to the next ones Concentrate on games,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZ_Strasser\/status\/1759295695285039213\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Dreesen<\/a> in a post-match statement.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Tuchel would be in charge next week against RB Leipzig, he answered with a simple two-word response: &#8220;Of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the loss to Bochum, Bayern had lost to league leaders, Leverkusen, last weekend before losing 1-0 against Lazio in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 first leg during the mid-week. Questions have been raised about Tuchel&#8217;s efficiency since taking over last season. The Bavarians narrowly won the Bundesliga last term, but have been eliminated from the DFB Pokal and lost the DFL Supercup final to Leipzig.<\/p>\n<h3>Tuchel Confident Of Turning Things Around<\/h3>\n<p>The former Chelsea boss defended his team after the loss and told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1759299325065072887\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DAZN<\/a>: &#8220;The defeat was not fair today, a lot went against us. We had an xG value of 3.4 and we had four, five, six top-class chances. If we play this game five more time, we&#8217;d win it five times. I don&#8217;t blame the players today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to admit that winning the title this season does not look &#8220;very realistic&#8221; but insisted that his side &#8220;will keep working at it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Leon Goretzka, however, did not share his manager or club CEO&#8217;s sentiments and was quoted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1759318901697990877\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: &#8220;It feels like a horror movie that is not ending. Everything is going against us at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team could find themselves 11 points off the top of the table next weekend with Xabi Alonso&#8217;s side taking on relegation-threatened Mainz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have opted to stand firm behind Thomas Tuchel despite losing three consecutive games. Sunday night&#8217;s 3-2 loss to Vfl Bochum saw Bayern drop eight points behind the Bundesliga leaders, Bayer Leverkusen. However, despite mounting pressure and speculation regarding Tuchel&#8217;s future, the club&#8217;s top brass remain confident in his ability to steer the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5039,"featured_media":636169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,4],"tags":[1895],"class_list":["post-636146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","tag-thomas-tuchel"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}