The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Royal-95-c40387 Blues still have a chance of progressing to the next round of Europe’s elite cup competition.
Schalke head coach Huub Stevens believes that his team should have clinched all three points in their 2-2 UEFA Champions League stalemate against French champions Montpellier at the Veltins Arena on Wednesday.
The German club was leading 2-1 but conceded a last minute equaliser from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Souleymane-Camara-c33845 for la Paillade, who had been playing with ten men. Moreover, the Gelsenkirchen side suffered another blow as star performer Julian Draxler
is out with a broken arm and will require surgery to recover.
The young starlet gave his side an early advantage before he got injured when he earned his club a penalty, from which http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Garry-Bocaly-c14429 received his marching orders for a
vicious tackle on the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 international.
The veteran boss stated that he is sad over losing the exciting prospect. He said that the Bundesliga outfit were unfortunate as the French side only had two chances and both of them crossed the line. The coach claimed that they
should have finished the game off earlier when they had the chance but let the visitors a way back into the game.
"Of course we are upset. They have two shots on goal and both of them go in," he was quoted as saying in an interview.
"We needed to clinch this game earlier. Even against ten men we should know that at Champions League level you need to make the most of your chances," he added.
"In the last minute we conceded from a counterattack. We just need to be more efficient. You could say that we dropped two points today, but then we also have four points under our belt already,” he finally concluded.
Schalke did not capitalise on their man advantage over their rivals and had to rue their missed opportunities in front of the goal. Nevertheless, Stevens believes that the German club are still in pole position to reach the next
round ahead of Montpellier and Olympiakos.
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