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Despite sitting top of the Premier League and Champions League, Liverpool are now reportedly keeping tabs on a left-back who could ruthlessly replace the struggling Andrew Robertson.

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No matter who stands in front of them on current form, Arne Slot’s Liverpool side seem to cruise to three points. Their recent run of games was billed as the ultimate test as to whether the Reds are pretenders or, indeed, contenders under their new manager.

Nine wins and one draw later, including convincing victories over a Bayer Leverkusen side who were untouchable last season and most recently European champions Real Madrid, the conclusion is undoubtedly that there is nothing false about Liverpool’s latest dawn.

It’s difficult to find criticism in a side who are enjoying such form, but one glaring weakness has remained in recent weeks and that has been Robertson’s struggle to reach his best under Slot.

The Scot was at least spared by Caoimhin Kelleher last night, with his goalkeeper sensational denying Kylian Mbappe from the spot after his left-back’s disappointing foul, but that’s now two penalties in two games. If the Reds want to rise to the top once more then replacing Robertson could be on their to-do list.

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With that said, according to GiveMeSport, Liverpool are keeping tabs on PSV’s Matteo Dams as they look to find the heir to Robertson’s current role. Just 20 years old, the PSV Eindhoven left-back has also reportedly attracted the interest of Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, giving Liverpool a potential race to win should they push on for his signature.

Given recent links to Milos Kerkez, Antonee Robinson and now Dams, it certainly seems as though Robertson’s starting place at Anfield is nearing its end after what has been an excellent spell.

"Talented" Dams can solve Liverpool's Robertson problem

Of course, no matter where Robertson’s Liverpool career goes from here, he remains an undeniable Anfield legend and arguably one of the best left-backs in Premier League history. But all good things must come to an end and the Scotland captain has looked dangerously past his best throughout the current campaign, handing Slot a problem that he must ruthlessly solve.

Replacing the 30-year-old with a player 10 years his junior could be the way forward too. Dams is a rising star and someone that Slot can mould into his ideal left-back as he looks to turn an excellent start into a historic era at Anfield. Described as a player with “great qualities” and “lightning fast” by PSV manager Peter Bosz at the start of the season, there’s no doubt that Dams is one to watch.

With Manchester City and the chance to go 11 points clear awaiting them this Sunday, Liverpool will be desperately hoping that their left-back problem doesn’t rear its head once more. When 2025 arrives, whether it’s with Dams, Robinson or Kerkez, the Reds may replace Robertson.

Trent Boult has shown, without doubt, that there are other ways of silencing batsmen than launching streams of invective towards them

Danyal Rasool06-Jul-2015When Mitchell Johnson fell so far down the pecking order that even James Pattinson was selected ahead of him, he stepped away to change a few things. He began to get fiercer and meaner. He bowled as many bouncers as he was possibly allowed to, and then a few more. He followed through far down the batsman’s end. He grew a handlebar moustache.And he blew England away. Jonathan Trott was gone after the first Test of the 2013-14 Ashes series. Graeme Swann went into retirement two Tests later. Kevin Pietersen was made to walk the plank by the end of the series. England lost players almost as rapidly as they lost Tests. It was Mitchell Johnson’s whitewash – Man of the Series by a distance. The terrifying fast bowler was back on top of the world after a few years of, ahem, bowling to the left and right.Meanwhile, Trent Boult was playing the guitar to Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for a roomful of school kids in Rotorua, a small city on New Zealand’s North Island. (Take a peek on YouTube; the clip is endearingly sweet.) He was listening to the Eagles and attending Mark Knopfler concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. There is a rumour going, which he recently confirmed in an interview with the , that he decided to play rugby instead of football one season. One look at the rugby boys warming up, however, saw Boult pack up his rugby gear and wander right back to the football field.If he hadn’t been such a central figure in New Zealand’s cricketing exploits recently, nothing said here would tell you that Boult, like Johnson, is also a fast bowler. A better one, in fact, than the bellicose Australian, if one goes by the ICC Test rankings [third and fifth respectively]. This is because being surly and intimidating is deemed to be as necessary to fast-bowling success as the ability to whiz a bouncer past a batsman’s nostrils. Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thompson or Shoaib Akhtar wouldn’t be caught dead attending soft rock concerts, let alone being proficient at playing poignant songs on a guitar. (Brett Lee is an exception here, of course.)Boult is demonstrating, probably unintentionally, the superfluity of the antics that build up that churlish image. If you think he’s soft, try fending him off for a spell with the new ball, in either form of cricket. He can find movement in a ball otherwise as reluctant to swing as Paul Collingwood with a Test match to save. His bouncers won’t be complemented by an exaggerated follow-through. His wickets won’t be celebrated with eye-popping, vein-busting rage, à la Dale Steyn. The only time he might invade your personal space would be to shake your hand on an innings well played. This is a fast bowler, the third best in the world. It bears repeating.Originally considered a specialist exponent of red-ball cricket, Boult has swiftly risen to become New Zealand’s leading ODI bowler, armed with an innocuous smile that belies his hunger and ambition. He bowled twice as many maidens as the second-most prolific in that department at the recently concluded World Cup, a run-fest by any standards. Yet, he did not concede a single run in a staggering 14 of the 75 overs he bowled. This means more than 18% of his overs were maidens. Excellent as it would have been a few decades ago, this is simply superhuman in this era. For me, it is by far the most impressive statistic of the World Cup, better even than AB de Villiers’ superlative 162 off 66 balls against the West Indies. De Villiers was swimming with the current, albeit much faster than his contemporaries; Boult was thrashing against it in a tsunami going the other way. He has shown, without doubt, that there are other ways of silencing batsmen than launching streams of invective towards them, or threatening them with a ‘broken fu**en arm’.Last year, Shane Warne, not immune to courting controversy, or cheap publicity for that matter, called Mitchell Starc “soft”, saying he needed to be a bit “harder”. Boult would make Starc look like an All Black, but there is a wider point here. Starc is now the best ODI bowler in the world, in spite of, and not because of that unfair criticism.Who can imagine what Boult would be like, or what profession he would have, if he had been born in Australia? If he wasn’t playing cricket, it would have been Australia’s loss. The reason we don’t get too many likeable fast bowlers is they often get the likeability knocked out of them at a young age. There are surely thousands of fast bowlers around the world that we do not see, forever to remain anonymous, because they were forced to cultivate an image they were not comfortable projecting, and which was in any case outrageously irrelevant to their talent. This pseudo-macho fast bowling culture is worthy of paying very close attention to. Boult’s success may well nurture many more smiling assassins around the world. They, like Boult, might not spit and snarl, but the new ball in their hand certainly does.If you have a submission for Inbox, send it to us here, with “Inbox” in the subject line.

Manchester United could be set to receive a huge sum of money from any transfer Mason Greenwood makes away from Marseille.

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• United have sell-on clause
• Greenwood in prolific form for Marseille
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• WHAT HAPPENED?

  When United sold the forward to the French club, report that they negotiated a future sell-on clause worth up to 50 per cent into the deal. This could see the club net as much as £15 million (€17m/$19km)as he is currently valued at around £30m (€35m/$38m). United suspended the player after he was charged with attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, by the police and he did not play for the club again. The charges were dropped and he moved on loan to Getafe and then permanently to Marseille where he has scored 15 goals in 26 Ligue 1 appearances.

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  Despite his goalscoring form at Marseille, it appears the forward has fallen out of favour with head coach Roberto De Zerbi. His exile from the team could lower the transfer valuation Marseille hold for the player and, amid interest from Barcelona and Bayern Munich, United's cash windfall could be lessened. Greenwood has not been selected by the Italian for their past two fixtures and appears to have serious work to do to win De Zerbi back around.

• WHAT DE ZERBI SAID

  The Italian boss said: "I expect more from him. He has to do more, because what he is currently showing is not enough. If he wants to achieve his ambition of becoming a champion, he has to be more consistent, sacrifice more and be more determined. Otherwise, we as a team always fall back into the same pattern: a very good match, then a defeat at Auxerre, then a victory against Nantes… It’s too irregular, it’s like waves. And that’s something I don’t like.”

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  WHAT NEXT FOR GREENWOOD?

  The former United forward is attempting to send a message to his head coach by turning up early to training, but he will have to show more than just a willingness to recover what seems a broken relationship. Whether Greenwood will return to the team when Marseille travel to Reims next weekend remains to be seen.

Eight single figure scores in his last 11 innings the catalyst as NSW face South Australia in the final Sheffield Shield round trying to avoid a winless season

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Mar-2023New South Wales have made the bold decision to drop their captain and two-Test batter Kurtis Patterson from their Sheffield Shield team for the final match of the season against South Australia as the Blues try and avoid a winless season.Since starting the Shield season with scores of 72 not out, 3, 40, 25 and 122 not out, Patterson has scored just 155 runs at an average of 14.09 in his last 11 innings with one half-century. Eight of those scores have been single figures including 1 and 9 in NSW’s last Shield loss to Victoria in Albury.Stand-in coach Greg Shipperd, who took over from Phil Jaques in late November after the former Test opener was sacked following a horror start to the season, made the bold decision to drop Patterson alongside the NSW chairman of selectors and head of male cricket Michael Klinger.”Our batting group have been inconsistent recently in delivering the runs necessary to establish the match positions we were looking for,” Shipperd said.”We recognise it is a difficult decision to pass on your captain but we are confident Kurtis will regather and draw purpose from this call into the future.”It was decided to support consistent and inform batters in this season’s last fixture, with the currency being runs.”Moises Henriques will stand in as captain for the match against South Australia at Karen Rolton Oval.The Blues look set to make five changes. Blake Nikitaris has also been dropped while Trent Copeland has retired. Daniel Hughes has a calf injury and Liam Hatcher is out with a foot issue.Jason Sangha, Ryan Hackney, Ryan Hadley and Ben Dwarshuis have been included in the squad while last week’s 12th man Blake MacDonald is in-line to make his Shield debut.Shipperd emphasised the selection changes were based on performance at the lower levels.”Ryan Hackney has been in the Blues team previously and has averaged over 65 in Second Xl this season,” Shipperd said.”Blake MacDonald was in the squad with us for the last match, although he didn’t play. He has had a phenomenal summer, scoring consecutive Second Xl centuries for ACT / NSW Country as well as 177 not out against the touring West Indies side. This week in the match between NSW Metro and NSW/ACT Country he scored in the 90’s twice.”He was given feedback earlier in the season and asked to score more runs and he has more than done that. Those two guys completely demanded selection.”Similarly, Jason Sangha was left out of our last match and went away and scored plenty of runs in this week’s Second Xl match.”Ryan Hadley is another who has put the form on the board with an extremely dominant Premier Cricket season.”NSW Shield squad vs South Australia: Ollie Davies, Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green, Ryan Hackney, Ryan Hadley, Moises Henriques (c), Hayden Kerr, Blake MacDonald, Jason Sangha, Chris Tremain

The batter is now set to depart on Thursday and join the rest of the squad at their training base

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Feb-2023Usman Khawaja has been cleared to join the Australia squad in India after his visa was belatedly approved following a delay which meant he wasn’t able to leave with team-mates on Wednesday.Khawaja will now depart on Thursday and link up with the rest of the squad in Bengaluru where they are based for a pre-series training camp over the next four days.Late on Thursday morning, he posted an image of himself on a plane with the hashtags “#incoming #khawajyenroute”. On Wednesday afternoon, shortly after a second group of players and support staff had left from Sydney, Khawaja posted on social media: “Me waiting for my Indian Visa like… #stranded #dontleaveme #standard #anytimenow.” ESPNcricinfo understands that a number of visas were late being returned, although it’s unclear if any other travel plans had to be changed.The Australia Test squad left in two groups across Tuesday and Wednesday, following the Cricket Australia awards in Sydney on Monday night, where Khawaja was named Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year.Khawaja, who was born in Pakistan and is an Australian citizen, has toured India numerous times – including for the 2013 and 2017 Test visits – but has had difficulty getting a visa previously too.Related

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In 2011, he was initially denied a visa to play in the T20 Champions League for New South Wales before representations to the Indian high commission resolved the situation.Khawaja shapes as a pivotal member of Australia’s top order even though he has yet to play a Test in India. Since his recall against England in early 2022, he has scored 1275 runs at 79.68 including five centuriesAustralia will spend four days training in Bengaluru before relocating to Nagpur for the first Test, which begins on February 9.A number of the squad members, although not Khawaja and other batters involved in the BBL, underwent a two-day camp in Sydney last week. Australia will not have a tour match before the series, preferring to prepare at home in conditions they could control, and then the centre-wicket time in Bengaluru where they have been assured the pitches would be a fair representation of what is expected for the Tests.

Julian Alvarez has been left 'incredulous' after his penalty was controversially disallowed in Atletico Madrid's Champions League loss to Real Madrid.

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• Alvarez's penalty controversially disallowed
• Argentine left 'incredulous' after the match
• Atletico knocked out of the Champions League

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Alvarez impressed over the two legs between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in their Champions League round of 16 tie. However, as the Rojiblancos took their city rivals to a penalty shootout, it was the Argentine who saw his penalty ruled out by referee Szymon Marciniak as he was ruled to have touched the ball twice during his kick.

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  While Jan Oblak saved Lucas Vazquez's penalty, Marcos Llorente missed his spot-kick which set Real Madrid on their way to a win in the penalty shootout. However, it was Alvarez's controversial penalty that stole the headlines, and the former Manchester City star was left 'incredulous' by the decision in the dressing room, as per ESPN.

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  After his goal was ruled out, Alvarez reportedly claimed he was 'unsure' whether he had touched the ball twice. According to Marca, Alvarez told his team-mates in the dressing room: "I didn't feel like I touched the ball" twice."

• WHAT NEXT FOR ATLETICO?

  The Rojiblancos can now fully focus on their La Liga title battle with Barcelona and Real Madrid and will hope their rivals are distracted by their European exploits. Atletico take on Barcelona next in La Liga on Sunday.

54 days on from sacking Erol Bulut, Cardiff City could finally be planning to appoint their next permanent manager after one candidate reportedly travelled to meet with owner Vincent Tan.

Cardiff's managerial search

The Bluebirds parted ways with Bulut over a month ago and remain without a permanent option in charge. Having initially shown their former manager the door after he left them in an early relegation sack, the Welsh club can’t exactly say that things have gotten a lot better in his absence, given that they still sit inside the Championship’s bottom three on goal difference.

In charge whilst that search for a permanent candidate goes on has been Omer Riza, who has coincidently emerged as a strong option to take the job on a full-time basis, despite the fact that Cardiff remain in a perilous position.

In fact, according to Glen Williams of Wales Online, Riza has travelled to meet Vincent Tan in Malaysia as Cardiff look to end their search for a permanent manager. The interim boss reportedly has a lot of credit and could now end the Bluebirds’ 54-day wait by officially replacing Bulut.

Cardiff have last candidates to replace Bulut; includes Real Madrid legend

The Bluebirds may finally make their choice…

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A young, unproven manager and, therefore, the type of candidate that Tan reportedly wants to give an opportunity with his next appointment, there won’t be many who know the club better than Riza.

Whilst their next appointment is crucial, Tan must make his decision sooner rather than later. He can’t let this saga go on for much longer as a make-or-break festive period approaches. If it is to be Riza, meanwhile, then he will have quite the task on his hands.

Riza's Cardiff record so far

In charge since Bulut was sacked on September 22, Riza has enjoyed moments to forget and, to his credit, victories to savour in a mixed nine game period in the Championship. As things stand, of course, Cardiff remain inside the relegation zone but only on goal difference. Things can quickly change in the Championship and Riza has proved his ability to get results out of this current side.

The numbers are certainly on Riza’s side, even if the league table doesn’t reflect those numbers as of yet. With more wins than losses and just eight goals conceded in nine games – four of which came in the interim manager’s first game in charge against Hull City – Riza has earned the chance to take the role on a permanent basis.

On form, the Bluebirds are on course to battle all the way for survival and perhaps secure their place in England’s second tier for another campaign. Amid such inexperience, it’s Riza who deserves the credit for such a promising run in the last 54 days.

Plays of the day from the opening match of IPL 2015 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians

Sidharth Monga08-Apr-2015The breakIf this were a tennis match, Gautam Gambhir would have been down 0-2 in the first set. The first ball he faced from Vinay Kumar, he charged down the wicket, looking to counter the movement he can extract and reassured by his lack of pace, but this time the ball hit the splice of the bat, and broke it into two. Gambhir was left with the handle of the bat in his hand with the rest flying towards cover.The brief returnAmbati Rayudu last played in match atmosphere on January 30, in an ODI against England in Perth. Back then he was squared up, he opened the face and edged Stuart Broad to the wicketkeeper. Since then he watched the World Cup from the bench. He would have expected some relief coming to the lower and slower pitches of India, but Gautam Gambhir denied him any. He had the tall and strapping Morne Morkel bound in at Rayudu and had two slips in. Morkel bowled short of a length, extracted disconcerting bounce, and two balls into his innings Rayudu was hopping and opening the face again. This time first slip took the catch.The returnFrom the moment it was cleared by the BCCI, Sunil Narine’s action was the most looked forward to aspect of the IPL opener. While he did continue wearing long sleeves, Narine’s was a changed action. The first ball he bowled was a full toss driven away for four. His team Kolkata Knight Riders have shown exceptional trust in him by keeping him for the final few overs, but here they bowled him out early. Narine went for 28 runs in his four overs, looking less effective, but this might be too early to judge a spinner just coming back into action. He did continue taking the ball away from the right-hand batsman, and had Rohit Sharma dropped off the outside edge.The missThere is nowadays a remarkable predictability to Rohit Sharma and big feats. His 264 at the same venue was more predictable than a century used to be not long ago in ODIs. The way he sets up at the start and explodes in the end, Rohit almost always looks set for an otherwise unprecedented score, be it a double hundred in ODIs or a hundred in T20s. When he began to attack Umesh Yadav in the 15th over, he was only 46, but 18 runs in that over later, you knew he was on track for a hundred. Almost uneventfully he reached 93 with the final over to go. Corey Anderson, though, hit the first two balls big and Rohit got the strike only on the fourth ball. He hit a four on the fourth ball, but hit the fifth straight to long-on, which meant he could get just the single and was stranded on 98.

They combined for an unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 199 to power Australia to a commanding position

Tristan Lavalette08-Dec-2022Marnus Labuschagne and hometown hero Travis Head struck near-flawless centuries to dominate the pink ball, as Australia put a struggling West Indies attack to the sword on day one of the second Test in Adelaide.After stand-in captain Steven Smith elected to bat, Labuschagne and Head combined for an unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 199 to power Australia to a commanding position at stumps. Labuschagne hit his 10th Test century on the back of his double-century and hundred in Australia’s 164-run series opening win in Perth.While his good fortune has been widely noted, rearing again after riding his luck in the first Test, Labuschagne produced a chanceless innings as he became the first Australian batter to notch three straight Test tons since Adam Voges in 2015-16.He completed the feat with a boundary through point under lights in the final session and raised his arms aloft to strong applause from the 24,449 crowd at the Adelaide Oval. Labuschagne’s 235-ball knock was marked by unwavering concentration and patience in tricky early conditions before he toyed with West Indies’ flagging bowlers.He was well supported by Head, who scored his fifth Test ton and first on his home ground with a brilliant drive to the boundary much to the delight of the Adelaide Oval faithful. Head’s aggressive mood continued after making 99 in his sole innings in Perth, targeting the short square boundaries and continually plundering West Indies’ increasingly ragged bowling through point.The pair flattened West Indies’ attempts at a comeback after the quick wickets in the middle session of opener Usman Khawaja and Smith, who fell for just his fifth duck in Tests in Australia. But sloppy bowling and fielding left West Indies frustrated as their hopes of ending a 25-year Test drought in Australia with a series-levelling victory already appearing forlorn.Much like in Perth, where they claimed only six wickets in 190 overs across two innings, West indies’ bowlers were inconsistent and failed to penetrate on a surface with occasional bounce and movement. Without injured frontline quicks Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales, West Indies speedster Alzarri Joseph unsuccessfully targeted a short-ball strategy and resisted trying to conjure swing with the new ball.Steven Smith bagged his eighth duck in Tests•Associated Press

But he did dismiss opener David Warner, who was caught behind for 21 in a rash dismissal in another missed opportunity to end a near three-year Test century drought.Briefly attempting a rally, West Indies bowled with more discipline in the second session through seamers Jason Holder and Anderson Phillip, who impressed with accuracy in just his second Test match.But it was debutant Devon Thomas who broke through by trapping Khawaja lbw for 62 with his handy seamers providing a surprise option.It was a much-needed tonic for an injury-hit West Indies, whose woes deepened when debutant quick Marquino Mindley left the field in the first session with a suspected hamstring injury after bowling just two overs. Mindley had arrived in Adelaide on Monday from the Caribbean as injury cover.Captain Kraigg Brathwaite scrambled for inspiration throughout the day’s play and used seven bowlers. He unsuccessfully reverted to spinner Roston Chase as the first change bowler in a baffling move. He again unwisely used Chase and his own part-time spin before the tea break to release the pressure on new batter Head, who counterattacked with ease.It paved the way for a sub-par final session for West Indies under lights with the second new ball failing to do the trick as the beleaguered tourists stare down the barrel of conceding another massive first-innings total to Australia.Both teams made a host of changes, with Australia’s regular captain Pat Cummins failing to overcome a quad strain he picked up during the first Test, while quick Josh Hazlewood was ruled out with a side strain.Seamers Scott Boland and Michael Neser added to Test matches they played last summer against England, while former captain Smith took the reins from Cummins like he did in last year’s Ashes Test in Adelaide.Even though he endured an uncharacteristic failure with the bat, falling to Holder in a return catch, Smith should be well pleased with Australia making a strong start in their bid for an 11th straight day-night Test victory.

Xabi Alonso has urged Bayer Leverkusen to channel Liverpool's 'Miracle of Istanbul' after racking up a three-goal deficit against Bayern Munich.

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• Leverkusen lose 3-0 in first leg against Bayern
• Alonso urges side to channel 'Miracle of Istanbul'
• Liverpool came back from 3-0 half-time deficit in 2005

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  Bayer Leverkusen have had Bayern Munich's number over the last season and a half, with the Bavarians not beating Die Werkself since September 2022; however, as the two sides faced off in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 on Wednesday, Vincent Kompany's side blew the visitors away with a 3-0 win thanks to a Harry Kane brace on either side of Jamal Musiala's strike.

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  In the Champions League, a team has only come back from a three or more goal deficit from the first-leg on four occasions. As such, Alonso has urged his players to channel Liverpool's 'Miracle of Istanbul' when the Reds, who featured Alonso as a player, had come back from a three-goal deficit against AC Milan during the 2005 Champions League final.

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  Speaking to the media, Alonso said when asked about using the 'Miracle of Istanbul' as inspiration: "Absolutely. It will take time to analyse and go through this result because we have been beaten well. Everything went against us because of us.

  "But it is not over until it is over and, as you said, anything can happen. The mindset has to be that and if there is a chance, we will fight for it. We have to fight back. We will learn from this and believe in our return leg. We don't give up so easily. Three goals? You never know. One goal can change anything."

• WHAT NEXT FOR BAYER LEVERKUSEN?

  Die Werkself will now prepare for their Bundesliga clash against Werder Bremen before they get set to host Bayern Munich at BayArena on Tuesday, March 11, as they look to come back in supreme fashion to keep their Champions League dream alive.