The German club were knocked out of the competition on Wednesday due to a 6-1 aggregate defeat but Rolfes, who missed a penalty in the French capital, believes that Leverkusen could take positives from the disappointment.

"We had a good character test," the midfielder told Sky Sport Germany after the 2-1 loss in the second leg. "We could have gone in front, but unfortunately I missed the penalty. We did better today and we were compact.

"We wanted to earn something for our good performance, but that's football. Today we played with more aggression, we should take this to the Bundesliga to be successful again."

Leverkusen return to action against Bayern Munich on Saturday afternoon.

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Bayer Leverkusen B. Leverkusen	33	27	6	0	87	23	64	87
2	Bayern Munich Bayern	33	23	3	7	92	41	51	72
3	Stuttgart	33	22	4	7	74	39	35	70
4	RB Leipzig	33	19	7	7	75	37	38	64
5	Borussia Dortmund Dortmund	33	17	9	7	64	43	21	60
6	Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt	33	11	13	9	49	48	1	46
7	Hoffenheim	33	12	7	14	62	64	-2	43
8	Freiburg	33	11	9	13	44	56	-12	42
9	Heidenheim	33	9	12	12	46	54	-8	39
10	Augsburg	33	10	9	14	49	58	-9	39
11	Werder Bremen	33	10	9	14	44	53	-9	39
12	Wolfsburg	33	10	7	16	40	53	-13	37
13	Borussia Monchengladbach Borussia M'bach	33	7	13	13	56	63	-7	34
14	VfL Bochum VfL Bochum	33	7	12	14	41	70	-29	33
15	Mainz 05 Mainz	33	6	14	13	36	50	-14	32
16	Union Berlin Union Berlin	33	8	6	19	31	57	-26	30
17	FC Koln	33	5	12	16	27	56	-29	27
R	SV Darmstadt 98 Darmstadt	33	3	8	22	30	82	-52	17