Villarreal coach Manuel Pellegrini remains confident that his team can qualify for the quarterfinals of the Champions League despite a 1-1 draw at home to Panathinaikos.

The result means that Villarreal has to score at least one goal away in Athens in the return leg to have any chance of progressing to the next round.

Giuseppe Rossi scored a penalty for Villarreal to cancel out Karagounnis' 59th minute strike for what is in theory the weakest team left in the Champions League.

Nevertheless, Pellegrini believed Villarreal had done enough to have taken a better result from the match.

"I think that a draw is an unfair result. We did a lot of things to have deserved a better score, while they have gone home with the result that they were looking for, without having done anything," said Pellegrini in the Diario AS newspaper.

"The tie is still very open, because Panathinaikos are harder to play against away from their home ground and we will travel with the aim of qualifying and without any fear."

"We have to win in their home ground, but we are capable of doing that," he said.

Meanwhile Panathinaikos coach Ten Cate admitted his side still had work to do.

"It is a good result for us. We have scored an away goal, but we had a bit of bad luck, because we should have had a foul before they got the penalty and in the first half we had a shot that crossed the line but which was not given."

"Villarreal has more quality than we have, but sometimes with a lot of work and determination you can get a good result," he said.

(Xinhua News Agency Feburary 27, 2009)