Wenger: 'We were good to watch and won with style'

"It shows you how football can change very quickly. Nicklas had not lost the confidence, it remains relatively stable. He came back with good focus and the same belief - that is one of his strengths as well."

"The statistics and history were against us, but that just shows those do not mean a lot if you have a team on the pitch who believes they can win the game.

"We played fluent football with a positive start and the early goals gave us the belief we needed. We suffered a bit when we did not control the game at the start of the second half when we were not focused enough.

"Overall, though, we were good to watch and won with style."

"What Nasri has shown in the game, he has shown in training and I have expected that to come out. He has talent and now he starts to be efficient - great players can assist and score goals, he is starting to do that now."

"We do not choose Manchester United or Chelsea. If I say we absolutely do not want to play an English team, we put ourselves in an inferior position at the start. Maybe it is a good opportunity, if we get them, to show we can do well.

"I do not want to say absolutely no English team. If I have a choice, I would say yes, but I do not have a choice. If we get them, we cannot do worse than we did in the championship - we can only do better.

"We will take the draw we get and also we do not have to make a negative obsession of not playing against Chelsea or Manchester United. We are happy to be in the last eight - it is never easy to be in the top eight in Europe.

"The negative side is you only have good teams now - Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, so it will be difficult. At the beginning of the season, nobody expected this team to be where we are, but we showed we have mental strength, we have good desire and good quality.

"I believe it is more important on our side to continue to improve - there are still some weak moments in the game we can deal better with, so before we talk about Barcelona or Manchester United it is important we continue to improve, then we have a chance."