Toure

“I had never seen a team play so defensively. In fact, their centre-forward was behind my position on the pitch and that made the game very hard. The referee messed up, I didn’t touch the ball with my hand but he has the right to make mistakes too.”

Pedro

“It’s a shame to lose after playing a good game. We knew that they were going to close things down and play defense; we gave it our all and it makes me angry to lose like we did. We’ll respond with the league.”

Pique

“We tried everything possible but it wasn’t to be. We played well in the first half but after Motta’s expulsion we became anxious when we couldn’t score while having a man advantage. It’s a shame but we have to give credit to Inter too.”

Alves

“Our dream was to play in the final but it wasn’t to be. I feel that we tried everything we could but they played great defense and left us with very few options.”