On Xhaka:
"Honestly, not really. I knew he had a good shot. But he played very deep last year and didn't get forward a lot. But I hope that will give him the taste for more. It's great for him to get confidence as well and to know that he can score goals."
On Perez:
"I believe he has shown what I expected from him. That he works hard for the team, that he can score goals, but as well that he can be a team player, especially on the fourth goal that Oxlade-Chamberlain scored, he played a big part in that.
"I'm very pleased with the effort he has put in and with the quality he has shown tonight."
"You know how important confidence is for the strikers, and they get their confidence from scoring goals. He worked hard and he got two goals. I liked the second one."
On the team and the game:
"I played always with very young teams. I think today I have a much more mature squad and we can compete as well in the League Cup, that's what we'll try to do. I would like to add that to my resume. But it's only one game played unfortunately. We'll put the effort in to try to do it."
"It was tricky, but we produced a great performance that allowed us to win the game. I believe that the result shows a comfortable win, but it was not as comfortable as the game shows."
"We had a difficult game but we did stick together and played like a real team who wants to qualify and overall our technical superiority allowed us to make the difference in the second half."