Thomas Tuchel has reacted to Pep Guardiola claiming that Sadio Mane's controversial dressing-room punch on Leroy Sane will bring the Bayern Munich team closer together.
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The Bavarians host Manchester City in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday night, and go into the match 3-0 behind on aggregate.
Last week's first leg was followed by a heated dressing-room incident that involved Mane lashing out at his colleague following an argument that began on the field and continued after the game.
While Bayern suspended and fined the Senegalese, Guardiola believed the German giants could use the issue to galvanise the group.
Tuchel, however, does not see it that way.
"I hoped we would use it in the last match against Hoffenheim, but we didn't, so now the case is already closed and the subject has died," he said, according to the Daily Mail.
"I know what Pep means that this kind of energy in the dressing room shows that it is alive, that the players are angry with themselves and with each other.
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"But, it was an incident that we do not like – it was too much. We [tried] to turn it around, we turned around the momentum and used it as positive energy in the last match, [but] it did not happen. I don't think it will have a major impact, no."
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