"I think they are a good team and after the first goal, they showed that they had quality to build up under pressure, to go through our block when we were a bit opened. They created chances as well.

"After that, we created our chances. We deserved to score the second goal. We didn't and in a nice stadium like this against a good team, the momentum can shift and switch really quickly and it happened.

"So good experience. We started the game with seven players under 23 years old so they need to experience those situations against good teams to get better."

• Sunderland are the first English side to score inside the opening two minutes of a Europa League game and fail to go on and win the match (seven out of seven before this game).