Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger believes they can be proud of their effort in the Champions League quarter-final second leg against Real Madrid.
The Blues trailed 3-1 from their home leg, but raced to a 3-0 lead at the Santiago Bernabeu against Real.
Luka Modric provided an amazing assist to help Rodrygo give Real parity over two legs, with Karim Benzema scoring in extra-time to send his team through to the semi-finals 5-4 on aggregate.
"The positive is we didn't give up," Rudiger told BT Sport.
"Not many teams can come here and dominate them like we did.
"But over the two legs, if you make the type of mistakes we do, you get punished.
"It was do or die for us. Before the game, not everybody thought we could lead 3-0.
"But then their individual class came to light, with [Luka] Modric and Benzema, and now we are here."
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