Aitana Bonmati Reveals Barcelona Have Been Dreaming Of UWCL Redemption All Season

Only three questions coach. When you score in any elite game and the opposition score so quickly it's brutally hard. Weren't you proud of your team's management of that moment forward to the final whistle? Yeah sometimes you're not talking about football, sometimes football is being competitive all the time and in the moment we scored the feeling I had it was good because we had the control of the game and only four or five minutes then they had the opportunity to score us. It's a bad moment to have to keep the courage and the competitive performance we did it so we keep it until the end and we are very very happy for the for the qualifier. This question or this answer are going to be new to you and football is a team game I know this. Aitana tonight glorious confident cheeky this is what champions league football is about that performance. Yeah she has a lot of energy when we have the ball she has this kind of rhythm she can beat opponents with the with the driving and sometimes when we are defending she has the effort and the second effort when we have to press in front of and we have to come back and she's an amazing player she's having goals assistant doing this season I'm really happy because she's in a good shape right now she has to keep it in the end because we need her. This is Atrevido, did the young man who came down aged 19 from Galicia have in his heart or his head that he'd be coaching a Can you repeat please? Did you when you came down from Galicia age 19 have it in your heart or your head one day? Maybe you always dream about the possibility to play the best games in your life no in this case I have in a club where I have the opportunity to play important games and right now have the options to play another final it's been important for me it's been important for the team and we have to prepare as better as possible the the the final and obviously I'm really happy not only to get it but we have to to give one step more to to arrive the trophy. First of all I don't think it's the right question to say how do you feel because that's horrible to put into words when the whistle went what did you do who did you look for who did you see what will you always remember? I just think we all came running off the bench screaming I think Bruna and Pina were the first people that I kind of made eye contact with and yeah we kind of just grabbed hold of each other and ran onto the pitch but yeah it was a nervous last 10-15 minutes for for us lot sat on the bench I think. No surprise to you about how good Chelsea were really smart tactically astute and dangerous if you lost the ball at any stage right? Yeah I think they looked to play a little bit more this leg as well I think they got the ball down played a lot more passes and I think yeah they made it more difficult for us here but yeah we also had a game plan we stuck to it and yeah we we came out of the win. I'm going to imagine that a lot of people will already say to you this is why you moved to Barcelona I suspect it's not I suspect it's a big win in Eindhoven is actually why you moved to Barcelona. Yeah I think all players want to be playing in these sort of games and obviously you know Barca are here more than anyone and they get to the final you know a lot consistently so yeah it was definitely one of the reasons but yeah it's not job done now we've got a massive game in Eindhoven and yeah we're waiting to see who will play but yeah for us it's yeah that's we want to win. Last one is you know glory to everybody who was involved tonight but I suppose Lucy is recovering from her knee injury have you had a message what will you say to her and was part of that for her? Yeah I imagine it was difficult I think obviously because she played such an important part in the first leg but she's such a great team player that she's still been in and around the team you know straight into training yesterday and back with the girls trying to keep up the positive vibe so yeah I think she's been great for that and yeah hopefully we'll have her back soon. Thank you for speaking to you Eva congratulations well done. Thank you. I suppose everybody asks you how do you feel I want to ask you how did you celebrate could you see people you knew which teammate did you go to first and how does it feel 20 minutes after qualifying for another Champions League final? I'm just feeling so happy and proud at the moment I think we really deserve this it was a tough game today and Chelsea gave us a really really good match and yeah the it was amazing the stadium the people that was there they were really helping us through this game and we got so much energy from them. I thought Barcelona played well but it didn't feel as if the last pass the last shot hit maybe the precision of usual was that about tension or was that about the a very tough rival? It's a good question I think they were putting a lot of pressure on us so they made it difficult for us but at the same time I think we can still do these movements and the passes good enough but it was it was an intense game today and we can see sometimes when we we do it really well for example when we do the goal we really do it really good so yeah we should be happy and proud today. I'm told it's time thank you congratulations thank you very much Was it like that?