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The last few minutes were a pain for the soul.

The Borussia Mönchengladbach professionals watched the game in Milan on a small TV screen.

And when the 0-0 in the parallel game was sealed, the whole joy was discharged: The footballers celebrated something historical jumping wildly - the first time in the last 16 of the Champions League in 43 years.


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When that last succeeded, the competition was still called the European Champions Cup, and Borussia was a big player in international football at the time.

Now Captain Lars Stindl and colleagues have made history themselves.

The statements were correspondingly euphoric after the game that Borussia had lost 2-0 (0-2) at Real Madrid to a double strike from Karim Benzema, but was still the big winner of the European Cup evening.

With Inter Milan's 0-0 win against Donetsk, coach Marco Rose's team finished second in their group behind the Spanish champions.

"Outstanding"

“Wahnsinn, Wahnsinn”, Stindl cheered at DAZN.

“It was actually our weakest game in the preliminary round and we're still going through.

We deserved it with our strong performances before.

That we qualified in the group with these top teams is outstanding.

We are all glad that we managed this little miracle. "

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A little later, the proud coach Rose spoke in a hoarse voice: “We are very deserving in the round of 16 with eight points in this difficult group.

We scored against every opponent.

I'm very, very proud of the team and I'm really happy for our fans and the club that we were able to achieve something like this as Borussia Mönchengladbach. "

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"We hardly got anything on the pitch and we deservedly lost it," continued Rose.

“Nevertheless, at the end of the day we will reach the last sixteen.

We are very happy about that. "

Mönchengladbach's Christoph Kramer

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And world champion Christoph Kramer said: “I'm pretty confused now.

It felt like ten minutes were being replayed in Milan, so I couldn't look in between.

We have prayed for help, then at some point it will just break out of you.

That was a great moment as a team.

Such moments stick with you. "