"mentality and charisma" of captain Mats Hummels during
his team's 3-1 victory at Borussia Monchengladbach on
Sunday.
Hummels played an integral role in breaking up the hosts'
forays forward, allowing Dortmund's flair players to pick
Gladbach apart on the counterattack, as the Bundesliga's
top scorers brought up a half-century of league goals for the
campaign and cut Bayern Munich's lead at the top of the
table to eight points.
Marco Reus fired Tuchel's men in front prior to half-time
before Henrikh Mkhitaryan added a second just after the
break. Raffael reduced arrears for the home side but Ilkay
Gundogan completed a comfortable victory with 15 minutes
remaining.
Despite numerous impressive individual displays from his
players, Tuchel chose to pick out Hummels for special
mention.
"The key today was how successful we were at winning the
ball back," said the Dortmund boss.
"We had a top captain on the pitch today. His mentality and
charisma were superb.
"We are very excited about this victory against a difficult
team. The counterattack in the second half was better."
Tuchel was also pleased to see Reus come through his first
competitive outing since picking up an injury during the 4-1
victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on December 13.
"I am very happy about the way Marco Reus has come back
from (the break)," said Tuchel. "He feels very free."
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