Thomas Tuchel on the bench of PSG during the quarter-final of the Champions League against Leipzig.

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Thomas Tuchel had a slogan this Tuesday at a press conference: "stay calm".

Remain calm in the face of the two defeats last week, remain calm regarding the consequences of the last minutes of the match against OM, during which three Parisians received a red card.

Remain calm despite the regulations of the LFP which does not allow him to align Alessandro Florenzi Wednesday night against Metz.

The stats against OM?

"Not only good, but extraordinary"

The PSG coach may have repeated it several times, he still struggled to keep it.

Especially when it came to his post-match statements, in Lens and especially on Sunday after the Classic - "we played a great match, I'm happy with the quality, the mentality and the effort".

Surprising remarks for supporters and observers alike… that the German has assumed perfectly.

“We failed to score, but we had control of the game.

We had 28 touches of the ball in the opponent's area, we recovered a lot of balls in their camp.

Our statistics on this match were not only good, they were extraordinary, he said, with figures to support it.

They were lucky, we have to accept it.

But you can't be angry that everyone expects you to be angry when you lose.

You can think of it like that, but it's not my job.

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Tuchel was especially angry a few minutes later, when a colleague asked a question about the levers on which he was counting on in attack against Metz, given the absences of Mbappé and Neymar.

Without them, the offensive animation had failed against Lens.

“No, it's not just the two of them in Lens !, exclaimed the technician.

Life is simple when you think like that… But these are not the only two that are missing, and all the others are there and we did not waste any chances.

It didn't happen like that.

We were missing seven, eight players.

It's not "Ney and Kylian without them we can't win".

We can't continue to analyze a match like that, because it's not the truth, it's just controversial.

And we don't do that.

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Basically, we feel the German disillusioned by the turn of events since the final lost in Lisbon.

The Covid brought back holidays, the programming of the first days, the recruits who are slow to arrive while several executives have left… Every day has been a headache for Tuchel since the resumption.

“We have three consecutive defeats, we are not used to that.

But it's important to look at the context, he relativized.

The reality for me is that we played good games.

You don't just have to look at the results.

“Difficult, anyway, when you run PSG.

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