Side blow for Tuchel
Bayern kicker lashes out: “I felt inhibited”
Bayern defender Min-jae Kim has not yet been able to fulfill the expectations placed on him in his first season in Munich. The 27-year-old was prone to mistakes, especially towards the end of the season. He felt particularly inhibited in the games against Real Madrid and Wolfsburg.
"As a defender, I always played with conviction. But such qualities were not always required here, which led to inner conflicts for me," Kim told the Korean portal "Footballist". A little jab at the record champions and coach Thomas Tuchel.
The 27-year-old was primarily referring to the criticism he faced after the first leg against Real Madrid in the Champions League. In the 2:2 draw, Kim first lost sight of Real attacker Vinícius Júnior and then conceded a penalty. Tuchel subsequently described his protégé as "too greedy".
"I hesitated"
In the second leg in Madrid, the South Korean was finally substituted and had to watch his team lose bitterly and thus squander their last chance at the title. In the subsequent Bundesliga match against Wolfsburg (2:0), he was allowed to play from the start again. But Kim emphasized that he felt inhibited: "There were many moments during the game when I hesitated. Because I couldn't play with full conviction. I tried very hard to show what the coach wanted."
Kim moved to the Isar from Italian champions SSC Napoli for €50 million in the summer of 2023. He was supposed to stabilize the patchy defence. After he soon established himself in the starting line-up, Tuchel increasingly seldom considered him after the Asian Cup.
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