Borussia Dortmund were eliminated from this season’s Champions League after they were beaten 4-1 by Atalanta in the second leg of the play-offs.
In tonight’s game, the Italian team made up for the 0-2 from the first game and thus won a place in the round of 16.
Coach of Borussia Niko Kovac he didn’t make excuses after relegation.
When concede four goals in the Champions Leagueit’s hard to move on. In the moments when we conceded goals, we were simply not up to par. In this competition, such mistakes are penalized. We are very disappointed. After a good home game, we must not drop a doubleheader like this, even if we knew it would be difficult. We are a Bundesliga team and we have to know how to present that. We deserved to be relegated. We weren’t good enough to go through.
Sports director Sebastian Kehl believes that Borussia failed in many phases of the match.
It was her very poor performance in numerous parts of the game. We deserved to lose, we tried to come back, but conceding four goals at this level is simply too much. That’s why we were deservedly relegated.
Captain Emre Can he said that his team made too many individual mistakes.
I don’t want to blame anyone, but when you make so many individual mistakes, it’s hard to move on. We had our chances in the second half, but honestly, we deserved to go out. It hurts, but we’re all in this together.
Mario Pašalić, the hero of Atalanta’s turnaround against Borussia Dortmund
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