Jose Mourinho spoke following the match against Borussia Dortmund: "I think the best team won, they deserved to win. They won all the individual battles and their game was very intense. We struggled when they pressed us. They played a good match all round and we did not respond individually or as a team". About the tie, he said: "We can turn around the tie”.
The Portuguese spoke in the press room about the goals conceded and recognised the good job done by Borussia Dortmund: "I saw one team superior to the other, with more physical and mental aggression. We all agree that the best team won. My feeling is that every goal came from a mistake and there were others that the goalkeeper had to make tough saves against, and I am unable to see from the bench whether the second goal was offside, or if the penalty was one or not. We lost the ball and when you don’t make good use of it in the first phase it is difficult".
The Whites’ coach is confident that his players’ morale will recover for the second leg: "I have been at Real Madrid for three years and I've met important people that from the club’s history and they have explained many things to me. One of those is that metaphorical feeling at home matches that make what seems impossible at times to not be. In football nothing is impossible, there is hope. In the group, if you ask them right now, everyone will say it is not possible, but within half an hour some will already start to say that it is. On Tuesday, everyone will be ready to go out to give everything and to try everything, in football anything is possible. If we get knocked-out by Borussia on Tuesday then so be it, but they will have had to suffer and Real Madrid’s players will end the match with nothing left to give".
He was also asked about the Sergio Ramos’ comments at the end of the match: "Sergio is a great guy, emotional, and it is hard to talk a minute after the match when you are so disappointed. Speaking about attitude is tough, because I think we all wanted to do better, so I prefer to say they were not been able to".