Schmidt: Leverkusen must beat Barcelona now

Roger Schmidt stressed Bayer Leverkusen tend to be not giving up hope connected with reaching your Champions League knockout stages despite the agonising 3-2 defeat to help Roma on Stadio Olimpico.

Bundesliga side Bayer fought back through  a great 2-0 half-time deficit on the Group E clash thanks to be able to goals from Admir Mehmedi and Javier Hernandez, but Omer Toprak’s red, regarding shoving Mohamed Salah on the  location led to be able to Miralem Pjanic scoring your own winner because of the penalty spot.

Leverkusen and then drop to be able to third with four points  coming from  As  numerous matches, individual adrift of second-placed Roma whilst  the gap in order to Barcelona is usually six.

Head coach Schmidt is adamant The item Leverkusen may reach your own round connected with 16, but says they will  to be able to beat shock defending champions Barca to get  almost any hope.

“Congratulations to help Roma, but when i  usually are not giving up,” Schmidt said in  a good news conference.

“It are annoying The item  my spouse and i conceded your own 3-2 soon after  my spouse and i had managed to help fight ourselves back into  ones game after going 3 goals down.

“We currently  have to win both of  remaining a couple of games, my partner and i would of course have chosen  in order to  always be  in  a good  greater position.

“We granted them too much day to be able to play This very first ball from the back  build counterattacks. This really is  challenging  in order to contain them then.”

Goalkeeper Bernd Leno, meanwhile, feel pleased throughout his side’s mentality, but concedes Leverkusen were lucky for you to always be  just  two goals down  at the break.

“Of course it’s annoying, but ones fact The item  i came back shows that the  division  possesses  a great mentality,” Leno added.

“We had to be able to attack, but when i left them too much room they this season took advantage of any  quickly players It\'s  within attack. when i waited too long  were too afraid. with the end when i were lucky That  am  lone 2-0 in half-time.”
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