"Quarter-finals are never easy and we made it a bit tougher than it needed to be. Fiorentina got the belief back with the penalty. It was a very difficult game to manage to be honest."
Stat of the National League's opening weekend: Mayo kicked the same number of two-pointers in the first half in Salthill on Sunday - three - as they did across their six championship matches of 2025.
Barcelona's heavy defeat against Atletico Madrid did not come out of nowhere. In many ways, it felt like the natural result of a pattern that has been building for weeks. The team had already shown signs of vulnerability in the opening stages of matches, but they had often managed to escape thanks to strong second-half reactions. Against Atletico Madrid, however, there was no way back after the damage done in the first 45 minutes.
