Well it is what it is. I don't see how you can have some massive choke when you weren't really favoured to win in the first place? I think that plenty of people thought that despite the two away goals that Juve could still win a 1-0 match or something similar. Obviously, given the outcome, we were far from out of the woods against the two time runners up.
I think that this is more evident of growing pains and experience. I do think it's interesting that people all talk about experience and how important it is, but what they don't want to acknowledge is that what this really means is losing and that includes these times when things are going your way and then very suddenly they aren't. Teams need to face that kind of adversity and find a way to deal with it, which is why most teams don't just roll through these competitions on their first crack.
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