Striking problems behind Bayern Munich's exit

Bayern Munich captain Oliver Kahn is urging his team-mates to drop their sob stories and make an honest assessment of the German side's failings in their Champions League quarter-final defeat by Chelsea.

Just as in the first leg in London, Bayern found themselves having to chase Tuesday's game at the Olympic Stadium after conceding a first-half goal to a deflection off defender Lucio.

The four-times European champions hit back and eventually claimed a 3-2 win on the night but still went out 6-5 on aggregate and the players only had themselves to blame, according to Kahn.

"More important than patting each other on the back and saying how well we played, we need to analyse what went wrong," said Kahn, the 35-year-old goalkeeper in his 11th season at the club.

"We had so many chances but still got knocked out. We have to analyse why. I think at this level you can't afford to squander too many goal chances."

Kahn's view was at odds with the reaction of coach Felix Magath and many of the players, who were quick to highlight the team's bad luck.

"We tried to attack but Chelsea was just a tick better and more fortunate with the two deflected goals," said midfielder Michael Ballack.

Magath agreed, although he did also highlight the team's poor finishing.

"It's very disappointing," said the coach.

"We didn't have any good luck early on and then we got hit with bad luck. It's very unfortunate," he said.

"But it wasn't only bad luck that cost us. We had our chances to get a goal in the first half, two or three very good chances. We weren't able to finish."

Bayern's problem in the first leg was that they were playing without their first-choice strikers Roy Makaay and Claudio Pizarro because of injury.

The problem in the second leg was that both men were back in the starting line-up, despite being painfully short of match fitness.

Makaay in particular was a spectator for much of the game, his only notable involvement a weak shot straight at the Chelsea defence from a good position in the first half, followed by a complete miskick on the follow-up.

Pizarro was almost as bad, dragging two shots well wide when Bayern were in command in the opening half-hour.

The Peruvian international was on hand to tap in Bayern's equaliser at 1-1, after Frank Lampard's deflected shot had put Chelsea three goals up on aggregate, but he continued to waste the chances that came his way.

Bayern played much better than in the first leg in London and the way that Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ze Roberto attacked down the wings in the first half offered real hope of a comeback.

It was not just Makaay and Pizarro who finished poorly, though, with Ballack blasting over when in space in the first half and Schweinsteiger putting the ball agonisingly wide after a brilliant run into the area.

Magath will now have to raise his players to continue their push for a league and cup double.

Bayern have a three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga with six games left to play and face Arminia Bielefeld in the semi-finals of the German Cup next week.

"Thank God we played on Tuesday," Magath said. "We can mourn on Wednesday but on Thursday we've got to get back to work and focus on the Bundesliga."