Ahead 1-0 on the night and 2-1 overall, Valencia CF succumbed 4-2 on aggregate in their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie against FC Schalke 04.

The Liga team's coach, Unai Emery, was dejected by the manner of their exit, while his Schalke counterpart conceded that his side needed a nudge in order to come out of their shell., UEFA.com reports.

“I think at the beginning the result from the first leg was a burden for us. We were not aggressive enough, that's why Valencia could raise their game. After we conceded it got better as we had nothing to lose anymore. Then we fought back, but the situation was quite dicey and I would have liked Jefferson [Farfán] to score the [third] goal earlier,” said Felix Magath, Schalke coach.

Unai Emery, Valencia coach, commented: “It's so disappointing. With everything in our favor we managed to throw it all away. It's incomprehensible. At 0-1 we had the game under control with chances to counterattack, and then they go and equalize. In the second half, without hardly creating a chance, they go 2-1 up. We then have four chances and don't take any of them. We've lost unjustly; we let an opportunity slip from our grasp when everything was in our favor.We can't talk of bad luck tonight; we needed to be assertive and we weren't.”