Ernesto Valverde conceded Barcelona were not good enough to beat Roma after they were stunned in a 3-0 second-leg defeat to crash out of the Champions League.
A 4-1 victory at Camp Nou had one Barca foot in the last four, but they crumbled in Rome as goals from Edin Dzeko, Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolas dumped La Liga's leading side out in the quarter-finals.
And coach Valverde had no excuses for the Blaugrana, acknowledging that they were outplayed by Eusebio Di Francesco's Roma.
"When you lose like this it's always hard," he said. "But it's simple to say that our opponents were very strong from the first minute to the last.