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Reaction after Fiorentina beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 on Thursday (23rd April) to win their UEFA Europa League quarter-final tie 3-1 on aggregate.

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SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Vincenzo Montella, Fiorentina head coach:

"The team played a great match, if we want to find a small imperfection maybe is that we didn't close it out earlier considering how much we produced, particularly in the first half when we were eleven against eleven, but I really liked the team for their courage, for the velocity of the game, for the chances we created: I said courage, yes, because the team was very courageous. I'm happy because I think that this group deserves this qualification, this group deserves the best because it is a healthy group, we always said that and I'm particularly happy for them, even for those who are not part of the list but have contributed as if they were."

SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Vincenzo Montella, Fiorentina head coach:

"The player probably slowed the pace down a little without realising, therefore we had a little less speed in our game, maybe because we were thinking to manage the match and to score at the right moment, which arrived at the ninety-fifth minute. We risked a little bit in the final minutes, but in general we always controlled the match when playing eleven against ten."