With this draw, the Saint-Gillois also ended the impressive series of seven consecutive victories of the Germans. Xabi Alonso’s men had indeed won all their matches since March 5. What give a little more shine to the performance of the Unionists.
Geraerts “proud” of his players, Xabi Alonso sees the return “like a final” following Leverkusen-Union (1-1)
The Germans remain confident
Despite this end of series, the German players remain confident for the second leg: “In the end, we can be happy to have obtained at least one draw”said Bayer striker Florian Wirtz, “of course we hoped to be in a better position before the second leg.”
But the German nugget is convinced of this: “We will win the second leg.”
”If we had lost the match 0-1, we would have approached things differently”for his part underlined the midfielder Robert Andrich, also very confident for the qualification, “but here we go into the second leg with good feelings.”
