Tuchel blames team for Kane's poor performance

Thomas Tuchel says it's up to his team to play to Harry Kane's strengths against Lazio.

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00:00 The puzzle is solved, but it hasn't been that often that he hasn't had that few ball contacts.

00:10 It's a big strength of his to let himself fall, to let himself fall into the middlefield, to create an advantage.

00:16 And to become dangerous from there with assists and passes that then lead to a goal chance,

00:22 in which he might be at the end of the food chain to use them.

00:27 We didn't manage to find him at all.

00:30 The basic order was predestined for him.

00:33 He played for years with Tottenham and then fell to position 10 for years.

00:40 But we didn't find him at all.

00:42 We played too little steeply, we played too little diagonally.

00:46 Our game was very often only around the very compact Leverkusener block and thus in completely dangerous spaces.

01:01 That hurt us, of course, and we definitely want Harry more in the game,

01:06 bring more in and start again tomorrow.