Thomas Tuchel rips into his Bayern Munich players in explosive interview after surprise defeat

Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel tore into his players on Sunday after the reigning Bundesliga champions suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Werder Bremen.

They may have dominated the Bundesliga scene for over a decade but the often-dominant Bayern are in real danger of missing out on a 12th consecutive title following another disappointing result.

It was, in all honesty, a miserable afternoon for the Bavarian club, who struggled in large parts as a second-half strike from Mitchell Weiser sealed a deserved victory for Ole Werner's men.

After the final whistle, a furious Thomas Tuchel delivered a scathing assessment of their lacklustre outing against Bremen.

The 50-year-old questioned his team's attitude and said they "deserved" to lose against Werder, who currently sit 13th in the Bundesliga table with six wins from a possible 18.

He said: "We didn't play for 70 minutes like a team that wanted to force a win, that was playing for the championship, that wanted to give an answer. We only did this for 20 minutes.

"20 minutes are not enough to achieve the goals we set ourselves. That's not what we're signing up for here.

"When you sign for a club like Bayern Munich, you sign for one hundred percent. That applies to the coach, that applies to the players. We didn’t deliver that today.

"We played as if we were 10 points ahead and still had a Champions League game on Tuesday."

Tuchel, who replaced Julian Nagelsmann as Bayern head coach in March last year, has also grown "tired" of saying that his team are training well.

"Nobody believes that anymore," he added. "I've been doing the job long enough to be able to judge whether the training was at the level we want it to be. This has really been the case for many weeks.

"It was clearly not enough. For over 70 minutes I didn't have the feeling that we were playing for victory. Afterwards I noticed it. Not until there.

"We were extremely static in the first half. We lost a lot of the ball, allowed a lot of counterattacks, and were sloppy in possession. Deserved defeat."

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Tuchel continued: "We will hold the team accountable. On Wednesday we have the opportunity to do better – and we have to do better.

"If you play for Bayern Munich and have a game on Sunday, you don’t have to be top on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday – but you especially have to be top on Sunday. We certainly weren't. We are clearly lagging behind our demands."

Bayern currently sit seven points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who recorded a hard-fought 3-2 win over RB Leipzig on Saturday.