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García Remón rues Madrid misses

Coach Mariano García Remón believes Real Madrid CF should have recovered to defeat Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Mariano García Remón, Madrid coach
We were nervous in the first half and that made us play poorly. Our players may be great, but they are also human and they seemed apprehensive, scared to make mistakes. I swapped Figo and [David] Beckham around at half-time and in the second half we played very well and in the end, could have won 4-1 or 4-2. Of course we can win in Rome, but it's a pity we could not do so here as we certainly created enough chances. But we will win against Roma because when we are in a difficult situation our players always rise to the occasion.

Klaus Augenthaler, Leverkusen coach
Overall, I'm very happy with my team. One-all is a good result and it could be the start of a run of good results in the Bundesliga and Champions League. Madrid struggled to create any problems for us in the first half. They had one chance and we had another, from which we scored. Madrid were much improved in the second period but even so we had numerous opportunities to grab a second goal. We made a series of mistakes though and allowed Madrid to equalise. After the goal they were very strong and pushed hard but even then we could still have snatched victory late on.

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