Alan Pardew: “You could see there was a good spirit there.
“We really worked hard, and we had to.
"Rolando did well. He wasn't out of his depth, even though he is only 18 years old.
“Their individual quality is such that they are going to create time – they can almost make the game look like it stands still at times. They have that quality.
“But we stuck at it – we kept trying to put pressure on the ball – and I really thought our levels of fitness and everything we really good.”