Roman Burki says Borussia Dortmund lacked focus early in their 3-1 Champions League defeat at Monaco amidst the fall-out from last week’s bomb attack on their team bus
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Borussia Dortmund players applaud their fans after losing to Monaco in the Champions League quarters on Wednesday. Pic/AFP
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Berlin: Roman Burki says Borussia Dortmund lacked focus early in their 3-1 Champions League defeat at Monaco amidst the fall-out from last week's bomb attack on their team bus.
Monaco opened the scoring through Kylian Mbappe and Radamel Falcao following which Marco Reus pulled a goal back for Dortmund. Monaco's Valere Germain then scored a late third goal to seal the win.
"We weren't 100 percent ready from the first second, perhaps we were too intent on scoring," said Dortmund goalkeeper Burki after Wednesday's defeat with the Germans failing to overturn their 3-2 first-leg defeat.
The Germans bowed out leaving Monaco to join Real Madrid, Juventus and Atletico Madrid in Friday's draw for the Champions League semi-finals after winning their quarter-final 6-3 on aggregate against Dortmund.
The Germans were rocked by last week's attack when three explosive blasts hit the team coach on the way to the first-leg match leaving defender Marc Bartra needing surgery for a broken wrist. The home leg was played last Wednesday, but the shell-shocked Borussia players later said they were traumatised by the events 24 hours earlier.
In Monaco, French police held the Dortmund team bus up by around 15 minutes for security reasons, which German coach Thomas Tuchel said unsettled his players. "After what happened to us, there is hardly a worse feeling than sitting together again on a bus which isn't moving. It was an oppressive feeling," said Tuchel.
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