Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United manager

We had a good start to the game and that makes a difference. Two quick goals knocked the wind out their sails. They are a young team and whatever level you are playing at you can't recover from that. From the club's point of view, I have said many times we should have won this competition more than we have: We have the quality. When the chips are down [this team] don't let me down. The third goal was great and the speed of the play was fantastic. Good players will always be judged on their performances, ability and belief but the good thing tonight was they played with each other; they all played their part. Ronaldo made the difference but if you looked back at the game, at the movement of Park and the running of Fletcher, you have to ask: 'Who was the Man of the Match?'

Is the gulf between United and Arsenal widening? I think we are at our strongest at the moment and Arsenal have one or two injury problems and that has been a key issue for them. We will look at Arsenal at the start of next season as one of our big threats. I know exactly how Arsène Wenger feels. When you work as hard as he has and have been there as long as he has been you deserve success. The problem for Arsène and myself is the longer you have been in the game the more labels you have attached to you. It is success or failure. If you win you are the greatest; if you don't you're useless. I don't think you have to win the European Cup to be a great manager, but unfortunately the media do.

I watched Barcelona on Saturday and they were absolutely fantastic – they could have scored ten, but they go to Chelsea without Carles Puyol and Rafael Márquez and that's a big problem for them. If you ask me who I want to play in the final, neither of them – I think we should have a bye!