Ferretti hails his history-making Tigres

The San Nicolas de Los Garza’s club will face the winner of

Bayern Munich’s

clash with

Al Ahly

in Thursday's final as the European champions will face Africans on Monday.

Ferretti

said in a post-match interview

: "The victory gave us an opportunity to reach the final. We faced two great teams, and the next one will be also a great team, and we will face them in the same way.

"I feel calm and happy for the win and excited as everyone. I don't like celebrating before time, we still have to play a game, the most important one is the next one. Naturally we know how capable will be the team we will face.

"Now, we have to get ready, the players have to recover physically, but not emotionally because they feel good. We will get ready these days to reach the end goal."

On the other end,

Palmeiras’

boss,

Abel Ferreira

, believed

Tigres’

penalty was "dubious", he said:

"It was not a clear grab although it existed, but this is not basketball, they won a penalty and from there they defended themselves.

"We had some chances but we couldn't get it right and I have to say without problems that they were slightly superior and the game is solved with a detail by the experience of a great player.

"We know we could do better individually. We came here on our own merit, we have a good mix of young and experienced people. But today we have to apologise to our people and assume that our rival was slightly superior in general and, I repeat, the game is resolved by a dubious penalty."