Thomas Tuchel: 'I am happy with the intensity that we played with'

Thomas Tuchel

"We created a couple of chances, in a very high-level match against a very strong side. We needed to score a goal with a half chance, but unfortunately it wasn't possible today. We lacked precision and a bit of luck. But we put in a good match, I am very happy with the performance, the determination, the intensity and the discipline that we played with. And I witnessed Marquinhos playing at an incredible level. The injuries? It's incredible, it's our rhythm, all our matches at 21:00... We are lacking sleep and recovery time. We have had too many injuries until now and picked up another three this evening. To prepare for Strasbourg, we only have two days and we need to analyse who is available. We maybe can't expect much of our players. There is a lot of fatigue and injuries." 

Marquinhos

"We lacked that goal to calm us down and to give us the victory that we deserved. We needed to be more agressive in order to create more. We had a few chances, but today we didn't manage to score. We controlled the match, Lille caused us problems, but they defend deep and try to hit on the counter-attack. We tried to analyse the game when we had the ball to stop their counter-attacks straight away. We couldn't let them attack our goal. There were strategies in place, I think we succeeded with our own, we just needed that goal. Now we have a home match, we need to win it and take all three points. We will need to play the match with a determination to end the year well."