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Rudiger rues costly mistakes after dominant performance

Antonio Rudiger doesn’t believe many teams could have put in the performance Chelsea did in coming agonisingly close to a historic turnaround at Real Madrid, but says you have to accept mistakes will be punished at this level in the Champions League.

The Blues couldn’t have come much closer, as Mason Mount, Rudiger and Timo Werner found the net, in addition to a Marcos Alonso goal ruled out by VAR for the faintest of handballs, to put us 3-0 up on the night in the second half and heading for the semi-finals.

Rudiger still believes the Blues can be proud of the way we performed at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, even if we ultimately have to accept that you can’t afford the kind of mistakes we made at this level.

‘The positive is we didn’t give up,’ said the defender. ‘Not many teams can come here and dominate them as we did. But the big “but” is, over the two legs we made these type of mistakes. Against Real Madrid you get punished.

‘We were close. I think we dominated them and we outplayed them, we outran them, but at the end of the day it’s little details that we missed.

‘We scored three goals, I think not many can come here and do that. For me we outplayed them, we outran them and we did a fantastic match, but if you look at both games we need to win these.’

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