David Hytner was at the Bernabeu this evening. Here’s his report on an instant classic. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night!
Thomas Tuchel gives his verdict to BT Sport. “These are the kind of defeats we can digest and swallow, because we left nothing to regret out there. We played what we wanted to play and showed the quality and character the team has. We deserved to go through, but it was not meant to be, we were simply unlucky. The full credit is for the players. I’m very disappointed for the referee that he did not check [the disallowed Alonso goal] ... but that’s what you get when you play Real Madrid in the Champions League. We had a huge deficit to overcome. Unfortunately both of their goals today came from mistakes in the build-up. They took advantage of the mistakes with individual quality and over the two legs, we did too many of these big mistakes.”
