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Eddie Howe speaks to TNT Sports. “A tough way to go out … really strange to try and sum that up … the first half we were excellent … albeit we didn’t defend the key moments well enough … a few individual errors … in the second half we were nowhere near as good as we were in the first … they deserved to go through … psychologically [the penalty] was a tough one for the lads, right on half time … very similar to what happened at the end of the game in the first leg … then they scored quite quickly after half time and psychologically we didn’t seem to recover from that one … the second half was tough … it was a great representation of how we play in that first period … the first goal two players slipped … the second was a set play … so amongst all that good play, we’ve given them two goals, really … they’re the key moments in the game … we have a massive game on Sunday [against Sunderland] … a huge game for our supporters and the football club … for the whole city, and we need to focus on that.”
He also reports that Sandro Tonali has a groin problem.
