The Brazilian full-back has rallied his teammates to concentrate on eliminating Bayer Leverkusen at home after his team emerged victorious in the first leg.
Barcelona paid a visit to the BayArena to play out the first leg of the knock out stage match of the UEFA Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen.
To the joy of Barcelona faithful, Pep Guardiola’s men achieved a crucial 1-3 victory away from home.
Alves expressed that he was more than satisfied with Tuesday’s result, but emphasized that his team needs to complete the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 when Leverkusen visit the Nou Camp to play the reverse fixture.
The defender was elated at the way the Catalans performed and hopes that they can do the same at home.
Even with the advantage of 3 away goals, which appear to suffice for the Spanish Champions, Alves has urged his teammates to seal qualification to the next round by keeping up the momentum they gained from the first leg.
The initial fixture was tipped to be a one-sided affair and the result told the same story.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexis-Sánchez-c4979 helped the Catalans to take the lead in the 41st minute. The hosts came back and equalized after 52 minutes, but Sanchez helped Barca regain their advantage 3 minutes later. In the 88th minute,
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 scored Barca’s third goal and helped them put the match to bed.
While discussing the result of the match on the club’s official website, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Daniel-c9879 Alves said:
"I think we have an important advantage but we must finish our work at Camp Nou, Winning always helps, it gives you encouragement and spirit. A good quality that we have is that we accept things as they come. We adjusted phenomenally from one competition
to another and we’ll fight until the end."
La Blaugrana will host the German outfit to play the second leg of the UEFA Champions League pre-quarterfinals on March 7th.
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