Liverpool fans make feelings known with chant and leave on 57th minute of 4-0 defeat to Man City

Manchester City assistant manager Pep Lijnders, speaking to TNT Sports: “Pep [Guardiola] is really pleased, that is the most important. It’s not easy to please him. We played a good game. The first 25 minutes we were too open. Then we started to control the game and created more chances. We deserved [the win].”

On what Guardiola said after the game: “He complimented the guys who played the last weeks and didn’t play today. He was really happy because it’s special if you go eight times to Wembley in eight years in a row. It’s finals now. It’s the part of the season where the business has to be done. The boys feel that.”

On Erling Haaland’s hat-trick: “Wow what a goal. Unbelievable. The header for me was insane. I love when a striker flies and attacks the ball and the fans love that as well.”

On returning to Wembley after the Carabao Cup win: “We have to prove it. Probably we will get a difficult opponent again. Wembley is special, I am happy for the fans. These are special days.”

Liverpool manager Arne Slot speaking to TNT Sports: “It’s very disappointing to be out [of the FA Cup], not only in the manner but also the result and the score. Another big disappointment for us.”

On what was missing from his side: “What has been missing for large parts of the season, converting our chances into goals. I think it was an even game up until they scored the penalty and the last time we played here we conceded just before half-time and again today.

“We get a penalty and we get a chance but that doesn’t tell me anything. The first 35 minutes was the sort of team I would like to see but the 20 minutes after that, we have to defend so, so much better than we were doing today.

“Not nice to go in at 2-0 just before half-time, not helpful for your mood especially after the season we have had. That was really hard to take. The only good thing was that we didn’t concede more.

On Mo Salah’s penalty miss: “I wouldn’t focus on one player, I would focus on the team and that probably sums up us today but also maybe large parts of the season.

“I think it is the second one he missed and Dominik Szoboszlai also already missed a penalty so it’s not only that we miss big chances, this season we have missed a few penalties. In the first half there was a chance for Mo when we played the fast counter attack.

“Unfortunately that didn’t go in and you have to score goals if you want to have a chance to win the game.”

On the PSG game: “If you want to have a good game on Wednesday, a 4-0 loss is already not helpful but an even bigger loss would be a bigger problem for us to go there.

“I tried to get us back into the game, to make it 4-1 or 4-2 but make sure that it stays at four and that was the main thing I thought about.

“I took Joe Gomez out because he has shown since I am here that it is not always easy to play him for 90 minutes twice so if we want to use him on Wednesday, it is helpful that I took him out today.”

On how important the Champions League is this season: “Very big and very important because it is not every season that you play in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

“We are really looking forward to that, playing against a very good side again. We want to qualify for the Champions League next season because there is plenty for us to play for.

“We have had a lot of setbacks and disappointments but that is also part of being a football player and being a human being and you have to stand there when things are not so positive and that’s what it is about now.

“Players that have shown so much quality in the past now have a fantastic chance to show that again against PSG.”

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland speaking to TNT Sports after scoring a hat-trick: “Amazing. In the first half we struggled a bit but we kept going after 30 minutes. Amazing, another Wembley trip for us which is important.

“Between 30 minutes and 60 that is on one of our better performances [of the season].”

On his hat-trick: “It’s been some time since I have done it for City so it is time I have done it again! It is special so I am super happy.”

On his season: “It has been too up and down which has not been good enough. For now it is a long week for us because we are not in the Champions League, which is not good enough, but we have to face Chelsea which is another game.”

On his second goal: “I will tell Antoine [Semenyo] to keep putting those crosses in. He is new and it takes a bit of time to settle but his cross was great and [Nico] O’Reilly’s cross was outstanding.”

On winning the FA Cup: “I have been in an FA Cup final and now we are going to Wembley. This club has to win trophies on the biggest stage.”

Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai speaking to TNT Sports: “I don’t know. When you do something and there is no result for it it makes no sense. We had chances and missed them, we conceded an easy penalty. We lose 4-0. We cannot concede as much as we concede. Nothing else to say.

“It’s hard to win here. After 1-0 down you still believe. At 2-0 down, it’s our own fault to come in at half-time conceding in the last minute another goal. At 2-0 the chances are lower and lower.

“You come out and want to show we are able to come back and you concede a third one, from then on there is no more chance to come back.”

On what was missing: “The fighting spirit wasn’t there enough, the mentality wasn’t there enough. None of us were there to be honest as much as we could.

“It’s a hard time but we have to stick together. On Wednesday there is another chance but we have to get in our head this is not the season we would like to end.”

On why the mentality wasn’t there: “That’s a good question. I don’t know. It’s hard to find words to be honest. We wanted this one so much. You lose 4-0 at City and it’s not the best.”

On trying to bounce back in the Champions League in the last bid for a trophy this season: “We have to forget as much as we can and as soon as we can and just keep on fighting all the time.

“I always say when we do it and we are winning, when we don’t do it we are losing. You have to fight, work hard, be there for each other and that’s what we are missing sometimes.”