Xabi Alonso admits it’ll be a problem to do business in with the painful finish of Bayer Leverkusen’s 51-match unbeaten run.
Atalanta’s 3-0 win within the Europa League ultimate in Dublin method Leverkusen’s 36-year watch for Ecu silverware is going on, even supposing they have got already sealed their first Bundesliga identify and feature the probability to finish the double once they face Kaiserslautern within the German Cup Ultimate on Saturday.
Alonso praised Atalanta as a ‘special team’ and informed TNT Sports activities: “We weren’t making plans to have a sinful year lately. Lets now not cope. It used to be now not intended to be, the unbeaten run has come to an finish, however they deserve it.
“It used to be now not about techniques, they had been higher. We have now every other ultimate on Saturday and can effort to be informed. The outcome doesn’t exchange a little how proud I’m of my gamers.
“We had been lifting the Bundesliga on Saturday and feature the probability to win the German Cup on Saturday once more.
“This season has passed all expectations. My first year as a coach, it’s going quite well. For sure I will learn from today.”
He added to uefa.com: “It hurts, needless to say, however we wish to importance this ache in a favorable manner. It’s moderately outstanding what we’ve accomplished and we should be proud. We will be able to be informed. We had a fat probability and we put the whole thing towards lately, but it surely didn’t progress as deliberate.
“We were not at our best level: everyone, myself included. So we will learn from today. It’s going to be a challenge, how we respond to defeat and deal with the pain.”
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The potential of an unbeaten 53 recreation invincible season were the controversy of Ecu soccer for weeks however Leverkusen’s Granit Xhaka informed RTL: “Truthfully, we’re now not within the unbeaten document. We didn’t assist about that from the beginning. It’s concerning the recreation and sadly we misplaced a last lately. That’s soccer. We stated the day prior to this that it will be a hard recreation. Compliments to Atalanta.
“It’s a shame it didn’t work out in the final. We looked so good up until this game and the fact that we didn’t manage to do what we usually do so well in the final is a part of the game. We have to accept that.”
His teammate Robert Andrich, informed RTL: “I would have preferred it to have been some unimportant game. It’s extremely tough to take but we have to be honest with ourselves. It was deserved today, so we have to go out with our heads held high and congratulate Atalanta. They definitely deserved it more than us today.”
Jonathan Tah, Leverkusen captain, added to RTL: “It’s a abundance unhappiness, in fact. Whilst you’ve were given this a long way, you need a distinct end result. That’s the surrounding of thoughts presently. Nonetheless, we need to conserve going. We nonetheless have an excessively, very noteceable recreation forward folks. Even supposing it hurts presently, you need to permit the ache. We progress on from the next day.
“They absolutely deserved to win today. We didn’t find our way into our game. They were more aggressive in the duels, left us very little space and therefore deserved to win against us today.”
