Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas underlined the importance of the early goal after the Gunners sealed a place in the Champions League semi-final where they will be facing Manchester United.

He told Sky Sports:

What was really important was that we’d said we wanted to try to score early, keep the pressure on and we did that well. At the end 3-0 is quite a fair result, we could have scored a few more but let’s not be greedy.

(Facing Manchester United) is unbelievable for us. What can you say? To be in the semi-final of the Champions League against maybe the best team in Europe, and the world, we would take it for sure.