Maturity Beyond His Years, 18-Year-Old Jude Bellingham Fronts Up After Dortmund's Loss To Rangers

Jude, it's not the result you came here for, but how was that overall as an experience for you tonight? Yeah, brilliant to play here, of course, brilliant atmosphere, good team, good test. We couldn't do it, so it is what it is. What do you feel was that went wrong? You seem to be in a great position heading into halftime for the tactical change. Yeah, I think it was probably the worst time for halftime to come. Like they always say, you know, our momentum was gone. We came out and we didn't really have that bite that we had in the first half when we were going forward. And obviously, you know, when you're pushing for a goal, there's spaces in behind us and, you know, they've got pace, they've got really good quality and they're always going to get in. Because it seemed in the first half, despite going behind on the night, you stuck to your game plan and ultimately it did start to work. Yeah, definitely. I think we were causing them problems before the goal. I think I had one off the post that came off my shin. I didn't even remember how that happened. And yeah, it's one of those nights where we didn't take all our chances and they took theirs. And, you know, fair play to them. And how much of a disappointment is this? Obviously, you know, Dortmund had intentions of trying to win this competition. Yeah, it's a massive disappointment. I feel like we've let the fans down. We've let the staff down. They've put a lot into us trying to win the tie. And yeah, we've let ourselves down as well. We could have done more. If we look at ourselves in the mirror tonight and before the next game, we'll realise we could have done a bit more over the two legs. And I think that's the thing that kills you in football. It is another step on your own European journey, though. You look very much at home in this Dortmund side. Is that the case? Yeah, you know, I tried to take responsibility. I tried to get on the ball, get us playing, score the goal. But, you know, it's just my job, really. I'm just trying to help the team, help the club win games. And I've not done it tonight. So it's a failure. We appreciate you, Tom. Just good luck to the rest of the team.