Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool manager after the qualification of the Reds at the expense of Inter Milan: “The difficulties that we had are quite close to those that I expected to see, because above all, we must congratulate Inter, who are a very good team made for this type of matches. However, without being brilliant, we had many very clear chances, but without converting them. They didn’t have that many, but they scored a goal. On the whole of the two matches, it is fair enough that they won one match and that we won the other but that we qualified. This is, I think, a logical result. It was a very interesting, open match, where a lot of things could have happened, but didn’t. Losing the match is not cool. We don’t come to lose at home […] but if we had scored on our chances, we would have won, as good as Inter were. But we are qualified, that’s all that matters.
Simone Inzaghi, Inter Milan coach, after the elimination of his team: “We had a great match in a difficult stadium against a very, very strong team. There is a bit of regret for the first leg, with a 2-0 defeat not necessarily fair given what happened on the pitch. Tonight we held the field well. At 1-0, Liverpool seemed to have suffered the blow but there was the exclusion of Sanchez which guided the last half hour of play. Let’s not forget that it was eleven years since this team had played a eighth in the Champions League, the draw gave us probably the strongest team in Europe and we were at their level. Between the first leg and the return, I think my team was not inferior to Liverpool. »