Paulo Dybala on the Europa League final defeat: “It completely shattered me.”

Roma star Paulo Dybala has not yet forgotten the pain he experienced in the night of Roma’s defeat to Sevilla in the Europa League final in Budapest.

The Argentine revealed his feelings at the time in a recent interview, highlighting the importance that a victory would have had to the people who follow the Giallorossi.

“After the World Cup with Argentina, I had another very important final to play with Roma,” Dybala is cited as saying in today’s edition of Il Tempo.

“We ended up losing and it left me destroyed emotionally. I was completely shattered. I couldn’t take it anymore, I just wanted to go home and never go out again. The defeat hit me very hard.”

“For us, at that moment, it would have been something historic, like winning the World Cup. For the people of Rome it would have been something unique in their entire history. And I had been there for a year…”

“And everyone asked me: how come you felt so bad? I do not know. The time spent together with the team, experiencing the city, meeting the people, the locker room… It killed me that I lost that final.”