Roma, Monchi:”We lacked luck & making most of our opportunities, the referee’s mistakes were also decisive”

Everyone seems to be on the same page on two subjects when it comes to the recent Barcelona-Roma match: the blaugrana’s strength and the negative performance by the referee. Both manager Di Francesco and now Monchi mentioned in their post game comments:”For me the result is too harsh, the pitch said something else. Before the match four things were important for me- Roma’s sporting director said- stop Messi, have some luck, which today we lacked, finalize our opportunities, and even here we were off track. Finally it was important that referee was as precise as possible, but he wasn’t even though he was in good faith. How much did the episodes on the penalities influence the match? Heavily, and certainly you could have seen that they were legitimate”