Former Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp has questioned UEFA's decision to reschedule the German team's Champions League quarter-final for just 24 hours after their bus was attacked.
The match in Dortmund against AS Monaco was postponed after three explosions near the vehicle that injured Spanish defender Marc Bartra.
"I'm pretty sure the people who make the decision afterwards, if they had been in the bus they would not have played the game," Klopp told a news conference in Liverpool.
"If you are not in the bus you cannot imagine how it is exactly," he said, adding that he understood the views of both sides and it had been difficult to find another date.
Dortmund's current coach, Thomas Tuchel, said his team had felt ignored by UEFA over the decision to reschedule the match so quickly, though the European governing body responded that neither team had objected to playing the game.
Tuchel expects Marc Bartra to be out for up to four weeks with the broken hand he suffered during the attack.
Liverpool manager Klopp, who was Dortmund boss from 2008-2015, said he was proud of his former team, who lost the match 3-2.
"I was really proud of Borussia Dortmund. When they played the game they tried to give the best," he said.
"I saw the faces of my former players and I saw the shock in their eyes and that was really, really hard. It will take time to deal with it."
Meanwhile Klopp has been impressed by former captain Steven Gerrard's first steps into coaching and the 36-year-old is set to be rewarded by taking charge of a team of his own next season.
The ex-England midfielder joined the club's academy in February with a roving brief involving a number of youth teams.
However, Gerrard has closely aligned himself with the under-18s side and is set to take over a more permanent role with them in the summer as part of a reshuffle promoted by under-21 coach Michael Beale's move to Sao Paulo earlier this year.
"There is not a real announcement in this moment, but what I can probably say is 'yes'," said Klopp when asked whether Gerrard was to become coach of a youth team.
"He is doing a real job at the academy at the moment with his presence and everything, being around and giving advice and leading little or bigger sessions and all that stuff.
"They all enjoy it a lot. He especially enjoys it a lot.
"Yes, he will be the coach of a youth team next season, I'm pretty sure.
"But we will tell you exactly which team when we want to tell you."
