Brighton matchwinner Welbeck: We can be proud of victory over Roma

Brighton striker Danny Welbeck felt they restored some pride after their 1-0 win against Roma.

It meant Brighton lost their Europa League round 16 tie 4-1 on aggregate.

Matchwinner Welbeck said: "The lads gave 100%, it's difficult obviously with the first leg. Very difficult to take that defeat. We paid the price with the first leg. We knew we could get a result in front of the fans tonight but it was too much to do.

"We've got a lot of very good players that are out [injured] as well. With the squad, we have to be proud of ourselves and we did the best that we can do.

"Nice to get the goal. Last week I got some good headers and the keeper made some good saves. It was nice to get that goal but tonight it's not enough."

On getting back into Europe, he added: "We want to keep improving and progressing as a team and as a club. There's a great culture at the club."

"We're going to do our best to get back to playing in these competitions.

"Brighton [being in the Europa League] is historical, first time in Europe, bringing European football to Brighton was massive in itself but there are some steps we need to take to keep bring European football to Brighton."