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<\/p>\nAustrian David Alaba, Real Madrid\u2019s defender, apologized for the team\u2019s fall into the trap of defeat for the first time this season, losing 3-2 at the hands of Leipzig, Germany, in the Champions League<\/p>\n
Alaba said his team \u201clacked intensity from the start of the match\u201d but did not want to justify the loss<\/p>\n
He explained, \u201cWe lacked intensity from the beginning, Leipzig is a team that has a lot of intensity, and it is quick in transfers from defense to attack, it made us fall backwards<\/p>\n
Commenting on the absence of players of the size of French Karim Benzema from the match, he stressed, \u201cOf course we suffered because we lacked important players, they have a global sale, but despite that we have the quality to compensate them, as we have shown in the past, we had to play the match better<\/p>\n
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Leipzig came close to ensuring its qualification to the round of 16 of the tournament, accompanied by Real Madrid, after raising its score with this victory to nine points, one point behind Real, to compete for the top of the group in the last round, while Shakhtar is third with six points, then Celtic in fourth place with two points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austrian David Alaba, Real Madrid\u2019s defender, apologized for the team\u2019s fall into the trap of defeat for the first time this season, losing 3-2 at the hands of Leipzig, Germany, in the Champions League Alaba said his team \u201clacked intensity from the start of the match\u201d but did not want to justify the loss He …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n