I actually spoke to Roberto about that a few years afterwards when he visited a poolhall I used to play at. He was still depressed about it. He lost out on huge sum of money in sponsorship deals (or something like that, forget exactly what he said) because of that loss.
The crowd really did him no favors despite being a hometown crowd. He didn’t say that, just something I saw watching the match. Once he started letting the pressure get to him they made it so much worse.