“You have to give credit to Bayern for their quality but we made things easy for them. We were extremely poor defensively.”
“We never looked like a team who recently played like a unit.”
“I feel overall it is a very disappointing performance. You have to congratulate Bayern, they were by far the better team tonight.”
Per Mertesacker said this in his post-match interview:
“They scored too early for us and got into their rhythm - that was too difficult for us to go again.
“It was disappointing from our point of view but because they scored early, they got into their rhythm.”
“We have to win both games and get two goals on Olympiakos, but it’s not over and that’s how we have to approach it. We need to bounce back and put away negative energy.”