find it "really hard" to replace Julian Weigl after the
midfielder broke his ankle during the 1-1
Bundesliga draw with Augsburg on Saturday.
Weigl faces up to four months on the sidelines after
being hurt in a challenge with Philipp Max in the
first half, ruling him out of Dortmund's upcoming
DFB-Pokal final against Eintracht Frankfurt.
The 21-year-old has made 43 appearances in all
competitions for Dortmund this season and Tuchel
accepted the midfielder will be missed during his
recovery.
"I saw him with the ball. I can only tell you how
I've seen it live," Tuchel told reporters. "I haven't
watched a replay of it on TV yet.
"Then they put pressure on him. He wanted to find
a solution, but gets fouled from behind. In his next
movement his foot gets somehow jammed in the
ground.
"Afterwards he told me he immediately felt that
something cracked and that something bad had
happened. And that's what it is. The first diagnosis
says that he broke his ankle joint. That means a
break of several months.
"He is playing every game for us and he is playing
in the centre, especially in a game like today's. He
is always important.
"[Matthias] Ginter really did a great job although he
also got hit pretty hard in the beginning of the
game. But he fought through that quite long in the
game. Now we'll try to find a solution for the two
games, but that's going to be really hard."
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