Key quotes after Manchester City eliminated champions Real Madrid 5-1 on aggregate in the Champions League semifinal on Wednesday:
"The players were outstanding."
– Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
"I had the feeling we had one year playing with in our stomach what happened last season. I think today everything came out that we had that was so painful last season when the people say 'lack of character'."
"Today from minute one we had the feeling people were ready. It was calm mentally. I didn't feel tension or see anxious faces. Today we were ready."
– Guardiola says his team has purged last year's semifinal loss to Real Madrid.
"It's a beautiful night for us. To beat this Madrid team 4-0 at home was wonderful. Wonderful feeling to be in the final again and hopefully this time we can try and win it,"
"We were very, very resilient – we were very passionate and organised at the same time."
"My performance in the first game in Madrid was not the one I wanted and I wanted to compensate that because I didn't feel very good at all after the first game and today I have to do better for my teammates and the fans."
– Bernardo Silva, who scored City's first two goals in a 4-0 win.
"In this type of game Bernardo is always there"
– Guardiola on his match winner
"Just buzzing. I don't think a lot of teams would do that to Real Madrid."
– Manchester City's Jack Grealish
"When we play here, I don't know what it is – our fans or playing on our own pitch, but we just feel unstoppable."
– Grealish on City's perfect home record in this season's Champion's League.
"It looked comfortable but it's tough. It's always going to be tough."
– Kyle Walker, Manchester City defender
"I watched the game yesterday. Very organised team. Very strong very organised defensively quick on the counter attack and set pieces. Going to be tough but we're going to try,"
– Silva has been keeping an eye on final opponents Inter Milan.
"It's another trophy we want to win with our fans again. We are going to try to recover the best we can to be full gas at the weekend to give another Premier League to our people."
– Silva switches focus to home game against Chelsea on Sunday when City can clinch the English title.
"One day off and we prepare the game Sunday.”
– Guardiola
"It was not a good performance. Manchester City was better. They played really well."
"In football sometimes it happens the rival is better than you."
– Carlo Ancelotti, the Real manager
"The opponent was better from start to end. They subdued us and you can see that in the result."
""We can recognise that City were better, we were lacking something. It wasn't attitude we were lacking but we allowed ourselves to be pressed back too much."
"We are Madrid. We'll come back stronger."
– Real Madrid's Dani Carvajal
"I don't think the way City started was a surprise to us, we were expecting a burst of pressure: that they wouldn't let us play out with the ball easily. We expected to be pressed back into our own penalty area,"
– Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois
"Congratulations to Manchester City. They were better than us and deserve to go through to the final."
– Emilio Butragueno, Real Madrid Vice-President and former star striker.