Lothar Matthaus criticises UEFA over rearranged Dortmund game against Monaco

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The match was postponed until Wednesday.

Tuchel claims the club were informed of the decision by text message and Bartra was still in hospital while his team-mates were losing the first leg 3-2 to Monaco.Klopp agrees with Tuchel that UEFA underestimated the mental scars inflicted on the Dortmund players by such a traumatic experience.

"It's an incomprehensible decision from Uefa to put Dortmund under pressure".

"I think that the shock is decreasing more and more and, at the same time, it adds to the desire to live, to fight, to work, to laugh, to cry, to feel, to love", Bartra said.

'Basically, we had the feeling that we were being treated as if a beer can had hit our bus, and half an hour later the decision was there that (it would be) tomorrow at 6.45pm, ' Tuchel said. But one shouldn't forget that we are human beings.

"We were attacked as men and we tried to solve the problem on the ground".

While Tuchel described it as "a feeling of helplessness", Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin was nearly lost for words when interviewed after the game by Danish TV network Viasat Sport.

"It's hard to talk about, it's hard to find the right words". I don't wish a feeling like this on anyone.

"Until I was on the pitch in the second half, I didn't think about football, to be honest".

"When I was on the bus (on Tuesday) night, I can't forget the faces. We did not know if more would come".

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UEFA official Giorgio Marchetti told CNN Sport Wednesday he had encountered "nothing of this nature" before.

"But we're in a world where we don't know where we'll end up, that's the truth. They are more thoughtful".

Borussia Dortmund players applaud fans at full time after their match against AS Monaco at Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund April 12, 2017.

Dortmund has said that their player Bartra won't be able to play for several weeks. The federal prosecutor has therefore taken the investigation. Security was increased at top-flight games in both Munich and Madrid. He has said he is "doing much better".

Undeterred by the previous night's bomb attack, 65,849 fans filled the Westfalenstadion.

Fans were told to wait inside the stadium until the situation was cleared.

"I was really proud of Dortmund, how they handled it and created this atmosphere".

Sven Bender then scored an own-goal to give the Principality outfit a 2-0 lead at the break, and although Ousmane Dembele and Shinji Kagawa reduced the deficit in the second half, Mbappe sealed a 3-2 win in the closing stages. Falcao missed an open goal for Monaco before Mbappe, 18, intercepted a poor Lukasz Piszczek pass, ran on and calmly fired his shot past Buerki.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday she was "horrified" by the "repugnant act", which Dortmund city's police chief Gregor Lange described as a "targeted attack" against the team, also known as BVB.

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