MADRID, 13 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
The English Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, made it clear that they deserved to “pass” to the semifinals of the Champions League against Real Madrid, but that they did not make it due to “bad luck” and for making “big mistakes” in both games .
“Yes, it always hurts to lose, but this is the kind of loss we can digest because we don’t leave any regrets on the pitch. We played how we wanted to play, we showed the quality and character that this team has. We deserved to go through, but it wasn’t meant to be.” that it was today and we simply had bad luck,” Tuchel stressed to ‘BT Sport’.
For the German, “there is nothing to regret.” “We had a big deficit to overcome because we made some big mistakes in the first leg and they took advantage of them with their individual quality. That was enough because in the two games we made too many big mistakes,” he lamented.
“The most important thing is how we play, the contribution of the players, how much we are at the height of the tactics, how much discipline we show in the spaces, how much we invest, so all the credit IS for the players. It is not easy to come here to the Bernabéu with a score like that because you need to score and you need to win, but we deserved to go through”, insisted the coach of the London team.
Anyway, Tuchel stressed that Real Madrid’s two goals came “unfortunately from big mistakes” for two losses. “This is the most dangerous situation, when you lose the ball after recovering it, and we did it twice,” he complained.
For his part, defender Antonio Rudiger was “positive” that they did not give up despite 1-3 in the first leg. “There aren’t many teams that can come here and dominate them like we did, but back and forth, if you make the kind of mistakes we made, they punish you,” he told ‘BT Sport’.
“The game plan was to find our ’10’, with Ruben (Loftus-Cheek) and Mason Mount between Casemiro to find the space. We were able to find him and we scored the first goal, then we controlled the game and we didn’t panic. We did quite well. In the second half, we scored two goals and did everything we could,” said the German.
The center pointed out that the duel “was life or death” for them. “Before the game I don’t think many people thought we were going to win 3-0, but then Real Madrid’s individual class came to light through Modric and Benzema”, he underlined.