Jefferson Farfan hails victory over Inter Milan as best in UEFA Champions League this season
Schalke 04 winger Jefferson Farfan has heaped praise on his side’s brilliant performance against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan at the San Siro in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.
He said that it was their best victory in Europe in the ongoing 2010-11 season and the Germans are favourites to progress to the last four of the competition as the second-leg will be played in front of their home crowd.
Schalke thrashed Inter Milan 5-2 at the San Siro in the first-leg of the quarter-final clash. The Germans shocked the Nerazzurri with a sensational performance and are tipped to qualify for the semi-final after scoring five crucial away goals. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Edu-c12016 scored
a brace whereas http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Raul-c30652 and Joel Matip scored a goal each.
Farfan said that his side knew that it was going to be a tough fixture against the defending champions and conceding a goal in the first minute of the match made it more difficult. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dejan-Stankovic-c10793 scored the opener 25 seconds into the match and it looked
like the hosts would win comfortably.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 Eindhoven player admitted that Schalke will have to keep playing
like this if they want to progress further in the competition.
“We knew that it would be a difficult match and it was complicated further after the first goal of Inter after a few seconds. However, there was a great reaction from us and it was our best match in the Champions League this year. We expected a closed Inter,
instead we found space and that helped,” the Peruvian was quoted as saying in an interview.
Schalke topped Group B with 13 points ahead of Olympique Lyon and defeated http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 on a 4-2 aggregate in the knock-out stages in their campaign thus far.
The Die Knappen have had a dismal season domestically and currently sit in 10th place with 36 points after finishing second in the Bundesliga last season.
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