Sokratis Papastathopoulos suggested he felt Dortmund players had been treated like "animals", while Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim admitted it was hard for the players to concentrate as his side secured a 3-2 victory.
Dortmund lost the rearranged quarter-final first leg 3-2 to Monaco on Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after three explosions went off near the bus as it travelled to Signal Iduna Park for the original game.
Tuchel was less than impressed with UEFA's decision to move the game to Wednesday, saying BVB were never even consulted which made them feel powerless in the matter.
"We were informed by text message that UEFA was making this decision", he said. "We were told by text message". "That gives you a feeling of powerlessness".
"I know football is very important, we love football, we suffer with football and I know we earn a lot of money, we have a privileged life".
"We basically 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 made that (it would be held) tomorrow at 6.45 p.m". But one shouldn't forget that we are human beings.
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Dortmund's manager Thomas Tuchel also spoke about how the past couple of days felt, and he expressed frustration with how little say the club got in how and when the match was played.
Ex-Nigeria skipper and coach Sunday Oliseh has narrowly escaped the blast which took place in Germany during a UEFA Champions League tie between Borussia Dortmund and Monaco.
However, the German federal prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday that an arrest warrant had been issued for the man - a 26-year-old Iraqi identified as Abdul Beset A. - as he is suspected of being a member of ISIS. We spoke to the people in charge if there was anything that could have been changed about that, because none of us wanted to play today, which I think everyone can understand. He has had surgery on his right wrist, and team officials said he was recovering. But at the same time, we know that we are only half way.
Ousmane Dembele pulled one back for Dortmund on 57 minutes, but Mbappe fired in his second of the game to leave Monaco as favourites to reach the last four despite Shinji Kagawa's late strike.
"I get goosebumps ... when we were in the bus last night, I can't forget the faces".




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