Sousa: We found it hard to pick up the tempo

Paulo Sousa: The conditions at the start of the match meant that we did not have the dynamism and tempo to our game that I would have liked us to have had. Nikolics had a big chance after 17 minutes, but we did not score from that. The two sending off's seemed to affect everyone, and we had to get over that. ZTE then closed things up in the second half, in order to defend even more. This gave us several chances, but we could not convert them. Finally we managed to score one more goal, and we achieved our aim, which was to get the three points.