League after a first-half horror show sees them suffer
defeat to BATE in Belarus.
Radja Nainggolan rejected the suggestion that complacency was
the reason for Roma's shock 3-2 loss to BATE in the Champions
League.
The Serie A side paid the price for a woeful first-half display in
Belarus that saw them concede three goals.
Gervinho and half-time substitute Vasilis Torosidis did find the
net for the visitors after the break, but they had simply left
themselves with too much to do.
Midfielder Nainggolan accepted the players had to take full
responsibility for a defeat that leaves them bottom of Group E
with just a point to their name.
“We knew it would be a tough game, so there was no
complacency, but if we had played the first half the way we did
the second, it would’ve been different," he told Mediaset.
“It’s our fault, we are aware that it was a game of two halves
that we should’ve played for 90 minutes.
"We just have to take this as a lesson and try to learn for the
next time.
"If we had a different start, it would’ve been a very different
game. We knew what we had to do, it’s just that we didn’t do it
very well. Now we have to see what went wrong. Clearly we
should have done better."
Roma's next outing in Europe sees them visit Bayer Leverkusen,
the first of back-to-back matches against the German side.
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