Klopp rues Dortmund elimination

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp felt last night's 3-2 home loss to Marseille in their final UEFA Champions League group game summed up their disappointing campaign. Mathieu Valbuena's late strike booked OM's place in the last 16 after the French side rallied from conceding a Jakub Blaszczykowski strike and a Mats Hummels penalty inside 32 minutes. Valbuena popped up with the clinching strike three minutes from time, after goals from Loic Remy and Andre Ayew had seen Dortmund pegged back from a winning position. "This match was emblematic of our entire Champions League campaign," said Klopp, whose side needed to win by at least four clear goals to have any chance of progressing. "We started according to plan, with a lot of discipline, calmness and flexibility. We absolutely deserved to go 2-0 up, but then we conceded a goal from a cross that we should have shut down, and Remy managed to get the jump on our defenders. "It was a bit hard to take because Marseille had hardly had a scoring chance before that. A 2-1 scoreline would have been a pretty fair reflection of the match as a whole, but then Marseille, without having to push too hard, scored two more goals. "It's hard to take, but that's the way we've played our whole Champions League season." The result left Dortmund bottom of Group F and without even the consolation of a place in the UEFA Europa League.