Twente had been leading 1-0 from early in the first half and nothing indicated that Sporting were going to get anything against the solid Twente-defense.

But panic struck in the dying seconds of the game when Sporting got a corner.

The home team forgot to put men at the posts and it was there where defender Peter Wisgerhof saw his clearing effort go in.

"The players didn't deserve this," McClaren said.

"You can never be sure until the final whistle. We got an early lead, we controlled the game. This is sheer bad luck. We played two heroic games and deserved to go through. But we'll have to move on and take our chances in the Europa League.

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football