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Thomas Muller Reveals Pep Guardiola Threatened to 'Cut Our Balls Off'

Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller has revealed the harsh words used by manager Pep Guardiola to his team during their 4-2 extra-time defeat of Juventus in Wednesday's last-16 Champions League second leg.

Muller made it 2-2 on the night to force extra-time in the 91st minute—after Bayern had gone 2-0 down inside half an hour at the Allianz Arena—and the German explained afterwards what Guardiola said before the added half-hour, per Kicker (via ESPN FC's Stephan Uersfeld):

"He told us that he'd cut our balls off. Of course, there are a lot of emotions.