near post. We’ve always said that we need the next person in line to attack that area and Pedro happened to be that and it was an outstanding finish. If you look at it, Brennan is where he’s meant to be, at the far post if the ball goes through, and Lucas on the edge of the box. It was a well worked goal and I think one we deserved, definitely, but we had some fantastic moves in the second half. It’s just that we weren’t able to capitalise on them.”
Ange on taking that attacking display into the second leg next week…
“If we can repeat that next week, and there’s no reason we can’t, we’ll give ourselves a good chance. I really felt like we overwhelmed them with our football, with our running and with our press. It wasn’t just the chances we created, but the chances we almost created. It’s going to be that sort of season. Nothing is going to come to us easy. We’re going to have to go there and fight now to get what I thought we deserved tonight and that’s what we’ll try to do.”
Ange on his substitutions…
“I thought we were well in control, well on top and we were creating chances. It was in the back of my mind that on that left-hand side, I knew the boys had worked really hard, with guys like Mathys, Djed and Pape coming on, we could really go at them. They almost pulled off an unbelievable move again when Mathys played it to Djed and Djed to Brennan and it was a carbon copy of the weekend but it went over the bar.”
Ange on Richarlison’s return…
“I think with Richy and a couple of others, it was good to get them out there. Obviously we’ve got a game at the weekend, Richy and others will get more game time there and hopefully that’ll get them into a position… next week, you don’t know, it may go into extra time and we may need some pretty big efforts from guys so we it was good to get them some minutes today.”
