Borussia Dortmund provided the perfect answer to a week of controversy surrounding their head coach, Thomas Tuchel, with a 4-1 win over Borussia Monchengladbach on Matchday 13 of the 2016/17 Bundesliga season on Saturday.
Tuchel had been heavily criticised by large parts of the German media for an emotional outburst after the recent 2-1 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt, when the 43-year-old bemoaned in his post-match press conference a performance that "was deficient" and "merited no points."
Local BVB reporter Matthias Dersch of Ruhr Nachrichten, among many others, felt Tuchel avoided fair criticism himself, deflecting blame to his team.