It was a difficult night and you were pushed to the limit in the game?
"Difficult in terms of the circumstances, yes. Huge difference. You come from Wembley, from a final after a well-deserved day off, we had one day to turnaround our mind and settle into the new challenge.
"There were a lot of players out, more or less no defensive players, and we were in a completely new set-up in a different competition There was some noise, of course, around the club throughout the day. So it was not so easy to focus.
