Arbeloa told the media after the match: "I think it was a defeat we could have avoided if we’d had a bit of luck. We made two mistakes we should have avoided, and against teams like this, you pay the price for those mistakes."
He added, as reported by the newspaper *Marca*: “If there is one team capable of winning in Munich, it is Real Madrid. We are Real Madrid, and we know how difficult it is to win there, but we will do our very best.”
He noted: “All the goals were down to mistakes, generally speaking. When you try to build an attack, you have to be ready to press quickly if you lose the ball. Otherwise, what happened to us will happen; we didn’t have enough players to cover those mistakes, which cost us the two goals.”
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