While Tuchel pledged for a temporal deferral, the club's CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke was in favor of a new attempt a day later. The then coach expressed his disapproval and accused the club leaders of having neglected the players' damaged mental condition.

Despite having lost no home game for over two years, the coach was sacked at the end of the season.

"I have decided not to put me in the center of the game, but to prepare my team," Tuchel commented in a recent interview.

His team, he said, "has got nothing to do with the case." He spoke about two years of work with the Dortmund team and three years of living in Dortmund with his family. His Dortmund friends might be torn between supporting him and their desire for the Blacks and Yellows.

"We take this as a sportive issue."

Tuchel sees his time well prepared to face the enthusiastic atmosphere in Borussia's arena delivered by the "yellow wall" shaped by the BVB's large fan crowd. Paris' squad is containing several experienced performers used to a noisy atmosphere, he said.

To get along with pressure, he is relying on a "shift of meditation or yoga" and enters a treadmill. "We only do sports. We don't operate children; we don't save lives," he said, adding there were so many people out there doing relevant jobs. "Doing sports, even on a high level, requires a certain amount of calmness."

While fans hope not to experience too much calmness but a thrilling game, Dortmund's club boss Watzke seems on a peace mission.

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