"When you concede four goals in the Champions League, as we have already done in the league phase, it's difficult. We don't need to talk about the penalty now. We just weren't really there in the moments when we conceded the goals. In the Champions League, mistakes like that are punished, so we are very disappointed and quite downhearted."
"After playing really well at home, we can't let a tie like this slip away here, even if we knew it was going to be tough. We're a Bundesliga team, and we have to be able to handle that. We deserved to be knocked out. We didn't perform well enough to progress."
Borussia Dortmund surrendered a two-goal first-leg advantage to Atalanta, losing 4-1 in the second leg for a 4-3 aggregate defeat. Atalanta equalized through Scamacca and Zappacosta in the first half, then took the lead via Pasalic. Adeyemi briefly leveled the tie, but Bensebaini's red card penalty in stoppage time allowed Samardzic to convert the decisive spot-kick. Atalanta became the first team since Liverpool's 2019 Barcelona comeback to overturn a two-goal first-leg deficit in a Champions League knockout tie. Manager Kovac acknowledged Dortmund's defensive lapses and conceded they deserved elimination.
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