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After such a great season, is that maybe the cruelest way for it to end? Yeah, it's really tough to accept when you are so consistent in the competition all the way to the final and at the end you lose the trophy on penalty kicks, so it's a difficult one. In the game itself, there was a moment in extra time, the penalty shout on Noni Madueke. Do you think that should have been a penalty? I watch it back and it can easily be a penalty, especially we see the penalty that they give me in the competition this season. The referees made that decision. He made a different one on the penalty with Mosquera and yeah, that's an important one.
You've obviously been in to talk to your players. What have you been saying to them? That I'm so proud of them. I think this season that we have under the circumstances that just internally we know what we've been through. They've given us so much joy. It's just a privilege to manage this group of players, this team. I think the way they carry this badge and how much they put into it. Um We got a big one and we missed on the biggest one. I'm sure it'll be really tough now, but how do you sort of look back at the rest of the season? Is this another season of progression and success? You've gone quarterfinal, semifinal, final in the Champions League.
Yeah, I mean we haven't done it for 22 years, so imagine. And it's the second time in our history that we've done it, so we need to recognize the season that we had. Uh But at the moment, nobody's going to take the pain away from you. The team that you played today, PSG, took an awful long time to win their first Champions League. Is that maybe something that you can take away from say they've had to work so hard to win their first one. They've had to work so hard today to beat you on the night. Yeah, and we know the teams that they had in the past and they are superb team. Congratulate them.
They are really difficult to play against, that's why they are champions two times in a row and yeah, the individual quality they have, the manner they are coached, they are a top team. And just looking forward now, what's next for this team? How do you now regroup? Make this some sort of make you all hungry again to come back here again next year and build on the success. I think you have to go through the motions and if you are in pain, go through the pain. You think you could have done something else, learn from it and that's it and reflect on that and then show the ambition that we want to go again.
