Just not good enough over the two legs unfortunately. The better team one. They looked comfortable on the ball all over the pitch whereas we couldn’t really retain the ball fit any length of time.
Poor game from Balogun. He wasn’t my starting pick and I have no idea why he came back out for the 2nd half. He was fortunate not to be sent off at the end of the 1st half and a sending off looked like a matter of time. For me, Balogun is no more than a 4th choice centre half. If Gerrard doesn’t think Helander is quite good enough, fine. But for me that means he needs another centre half to pair with Goldson, because Balogun isn’t a 3rd, far less a 2nd, centre half for me.
Stupidity from Roofe. Over the piece I am less convinced by him than many others are. We will massively miss Morelos if he goes and I would be very uncomfortable relying on Roofe and Itten.
Patterson a real bright spot. It’s just unbelievably ironic that our best young player in years is coming through in Tav’s position.
Oh well, it’s a great run sadly come to an end.