Soule: ‘Roma valuable lesson, mentality is an issue’ in 4-3 defeat to Real Madrid

ROME, ITALY-OCTOBER 14: Donyell Malen of AS Roma commemorates scoring his group’s 3rd objective with colleagues throughout the UEFA Champions League 2026/27 League Phase MD2 match in between AS Roma and Real Madrid C.F. at Stadio Olimpico on October 14, 2026 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images )

Matias Soulé hopes Roma’s collapse from 3-1 to lose 4-3 to Real Madrid can’ be an important lesson ‘about focus in the Champions League.’ It needs to be a problem of mindset. ‘

It went from dream night to problem at the Stadio Olimpico in the very first Champions League home component for 7 years.

Marten de Roon and a Donyell Malen brace had actually put them 3-1 up deservedly, however their terrible protecting from set plays showed essential, yielding 3 practically similar objectives in the last 7 minutes.

They enabled Carlos Espi, Endrick and Antonio Rudiger to kip down from corner kicks, tossing all of it away for a 4-3 defeat to Real Madrid.

Soulé distraught at Roma collapse

ROME, ITALY– OCTOBER 14: Marten de Roon of AS Roma commemorates scoring his group’s very first objective with colleagues throughout the UEFA Champions League 2026/27 League Phase MD2 match in between AS Roma and Real Madrid C.F. at Stadio Olimpico on October 14, 2026 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images )

“It needs to be an important lesson, we require to be totally focused for the complete 90 minutes plus interruptions. I believe it needs to be a concern of mindset, since when you yield 3 almost similar objectives in 7 minutes, something is incorrect.”

This indicates Roma have one point from 2 Champions League video games, having actually held Fenerbahce to a 1-1 attract Turkiye.

The efficiency for 75 minutes must definitely improve self-confidence moving forward, however the level of that late collapse has actually got to strike spirits even harder.

“We’re dissatisfied, however we can’t toss whatever away, due to the fact that we had actually played a truly great video game. It injures to lose after the level of the efficiency for so long.

“We’ve got to take the positives from this and deal with the negatives to gain from them.”

To make matters worse, Manu Koné went off in tears after 17 minutes with a fresh injury problem, then Paulo Dybala likewise suffered a muscular concern at half-time.