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El Shaarawy came off the bench to provide the ball for the second-half own goal that made the score 2-1 on the night and 4-5 on aggregate - but Roma were agonisingly unable to score the third goal that would have sent them into the quarter-finals.
Instead it is Lyon that will be in Friday's last-eight draw.
“I don't think we can have any regrets today, only about the first leg – four goals were too many to concede," El Shaarawy said. "We played the way we wanted to tonight and the only thing lacking was that extra goal.
"We gave it absolutely everything and played aggressively but sadly it didn't work out.”
What are the positives to take from this game?
“We won it, for a start – that's a positive. Obviously the negative thing is we didn't go through. It's a shame because we really believed we could go all the way. Now we need to move on, keep doing well in the league and try to turn things around against Lazio.”
Roma didn't seem to be short of energy tonight...
“It's only recently that we've lost a few matches but we're a great team and we've won loads of games since January last year. We need to push on from this victory from tonight, even though ultimately it wasn't enough.”
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