Emma Hayes blames Chelsea's loss on 'shocking official decision'

I think. No, Our crowd was tremendous today. We have to thank them. They gave as much support as they possibly could to the team. I think when you lose football matches and you’ve been beaten by the better team, 11 versus 11, and you know, listen, they’re the, they’re the best team in the world for a reason and they had a strong, I think, first half, but the deflected goal, you know, at least puts them in a good position. But in the second-half I felt we were just coming on top and you could see the combination of the crowd and the players were driving us and the players felt really confident, so. When you get such a shocking official decision, there’s nothing you can do about it, and it’s hard enough against eleven of them. But. For us, when you’ve got 11, but when you got 10, it’s virtually impossible. Yeah, of course, but everyone knows that. Even Barcelona players said to us they knew the referee was helpful for them. I didn’t think it was a foul, let alone a yellow card, but as I said, when you lose a game. For us, we didn’t feel we got the opportunity to lose it. That was taken away and I think that I was surprised when I saw her selected. She’s famous for easy cards and I think that that is probably the worst decision in UA for women’s Champions League history. I’m gutted for them. We were. We were robbed. I genuinely believe we were on top of the game. We just hit the post. I could feel the momentum going in that direction. But we didn’t have the chance to experience that. So all the talking is about that. Yes, we lost Myra yesterday after training, you know, that didn’t help. But you need everything to go your way. They get 2 yellow cards, a deflection and a penalty. You know, everything went their way and everything didn’t go our way tonight.