Three explosive devices detonated near the bus as it left the team hotel for a Champions League quarterfinal first leg against AS Monaco at Signal Iduna Park in western Germany, shattering the vehicle's windows.
Dortmund lost the match 3-2 and play Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on Saturday before the return leg in Monaco on Wednesday.
After the 2-3 defeat to Monaco, Thomas Tuchel gave a variety of interviews to the media and despite admitting that "we wished we would have had more time to deal with what happened, but someone in Switzerland decided we must play", the Dortmund coach also gave a unique insight into the very humane man management skills that he used during this hard and traumatic period.
"We were informed by text message that UEFA were making this decision", Tuchel said. "It felt lousy. And that sticks with us", he said at a news conference.
"Minutes after the attacks, the only question was whether the game could go through or not".
Tuchel said the players were not in the right state of minds before the game and they should not have been playing so soon, no matter how "important" the match or how "tight" the schedule is for the remainder of the season.
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Responding to Tuchel's remarks, UEFA said in a statement there had been "complete agreement with clubs and authorities" over the timing of the rescheduled match. Read the original story.
"The Borussia family has shown that we close ranks in hard times and that's what we also want to do for Marc". In a few days, we will not have digested completely but time helps us to find a solution.
While Mbappe wrote his name into the record books by becoming the youngest player to score a brace in the history of the competition, he admitted the incident the day before caused panic within the Monaco camp. "This gives you the feeling of impotence that we have to work and the rest does not matter". When you were in the bus last night, I can't forget the faces. We hardly slept, all of us tried to spend time with their families.
The Dortmund players were back in training on Wednesday morning to prepare for the evening's fixture.
"A decision made in Switzerland that concerns us directly", Tuchel added. I know we earn a lot of money and have a privileged life but we are human beings. We prepared twice for the same match and today's preparation was more hard. "We're just incredibly lucky no one else besides Marc was seriously injured".
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