Europa: We Can Turn First Leg Defeat Against Leverkusen Around –Roma Captain, Pellegrini

AS Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini has said he and his teammates can turnaround their a 2-0 home defeat, in the Europa League first leg semi-final clash against Bayer Leverkusen.

Leverkusen took the lead in the first half through Florian Wirtz following a mistake from Roma defender Karsdorp howler.

The new Bundesliga Champions secured a second after the restart with Robert Andrich hitting a scorcher into the top corner.

“The regret is that they scored two goals and we scored zero,” Pellegrini told Sky Sport Italia.

“I think we played really well, unfortunately we wasted many opportunities to hurt them, we kept producing chances to the end and they go home probably thinking they’ve already qualified.

“Instead, we go home preparing Sunday’s match in Serie A and then hope to cause them problems in the second leg.

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