Slip-up against Bilbao
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The fact that AS Roma had to bow out of the Europa League against Bilbao on Thursday evening was largely due to the early red card against Mats Hummels. The "Gazzetta dello Sport" wrote after the game about the German's "stupidity", which "ruined everything".
The background: in the eleventh minute, Hummels had played the ball to the feet of Maroan Sannadi, and in the subsequent attempt to save the situation, the Roma defender straddled the striker's ankle and the referee immediately showed the red card.
End of the round of 16
The short-handedness quickly had an effect on the action on the pitch, with Bilbao winning the game 3:1 and advancing to the quarter-finals with an aggregate score of 4:3.
Hummels, who apologized for his lapse on Instagram after the game, was harshly criticized by the local media, with the Gazetta reporting that his double mistake had cost the Romans their lives. A bitter evening for the former DFB defender, for whom it had only recently looked like things were looking up again ...
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