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Monchengladbach: Schalke beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2-2 (3-3 on aggregate) on away goals in the pre-quarterfinal tie of the Europa League football championship here.<\/p>\nMonchengladbach: Schalke beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2-2 (3-3 on aggregate) on away goals in the pre-quarterfinal tie of the Europa League football championship here.<\/p>\n
Borussia Monchengladbach were on Thursday unable to protect a two-goal lead as second-half goals from Schalke’s Leon Goretzka and Nabil Bentaleb paved the way to the quarter-finals, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n
The first leg of the tie had ended 1-1.<\/p>\n
Monchengladbach grabbed a promising start into the game as Raffael’s build-up play almost allowed Josip Drimic to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
However, the unmarked striker failed to head home from eight metres with 18 minutes played.<\/p>\n
Raffael remained in the thick of things as he unleashed a left-footed hammer from 19 metres, which missed the target in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n
The hosts’ efforts finally paid off 26 minutes into the encounter as Andreas Christensen utilised a flicked on free kick to slot home with a deflected shot from the near post corner.<\/p>\n
Monchengladbach kept it bowling and punished Schalke just before the break as Mahmoud Dahoud completed a counter-attack after drilling the ball from 23 metres into the top left corner.<\/p>\n
Schalke remained unimpressed and responded after the restart as Goretzka’s long-range effort bounced over Monchengladbach goalkeeper Yann Sommer to reduce the arrears to 1-2 in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n
Schalke gained momentum while things went from bad to worse for the hosts in the 68th minute when referee Mark Clattenburg awarded the visitors a controversial handball. Bentaleb stepped up and levelled the scores from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n
Monchengladbach pressed frenetically as they needed a win to advance into the next round. Nevertheless, Schalke were able protect the 2-2 draw as Monchengladbach lacked in accuracy in the closing period.<\/p>\n
“We had the will and bounced back. We rewarded ourselves with the 2-2 draw and believed in us. That’s why we progressed today,” Schalke head coach Markus Weinzierl said.<\/p>\n
Monchengladbach head coach Dieter Hecking was sour about the result of the match.<\/p>\n
“We unfortunately crashed out of this competition. It is disappointing but we have to accept the defeat. It wasn’t a handball penalty from my perspective.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monchengladbach: Schalke beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2-2 (3-3 on aggregate) on away goals in the pre-quarterfinal tie of the Europa League football championship here.<\/p>\n
Borussia Monchengladbach were on Thursday unable to protect a two-goal lead as second-half goals from Schalke’s Leon Goretzka and Nabil Bentaleb paved the way to the quarter-finals, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n
The first leg of the tie had ended 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19422,21751,12975,466,20940],"class_list":["post-33945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-borussia-monchengladbach","tag-europa-league-football-championship","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-schalke"],"yoast_head":"\n