Hart heroics set up famous win

Our FA Cup semi-final victory over United at Wembley is still sinking in.

The effort shown by our players in the 1-0 triumph was absolutely superb.

I have been in football for 44 years and have never been anywhere near a Wembley cup final with any of my teams. To do it with City is especially pleasing.

I was particularly happy for defender Pablo Zabaleta. He had been at the bedside of his critically-ill father in Argentina for three weeks and, in his first game back, produced a phenomenal performance.

After everything Zaba has been through, he deserved the win. I get the feeling he could be absent for three months and still hit the ground running, because he is that sort of character.

After the first 25 minutes we pretty much dominated proceedings. It could have been a different game had Dimitar Berbatov scored one of his chances early on, but Joe Hart pulled off an unbelievable save and sent us on our way.

Yaya Toure got the all-important goal after 52 minutes. Obviously we had to hang on a bit towards the end, but at the heart of our defence, in-form Joleon Lescott and man-mountain Vincent Kompany, who skippered the side, got on the end of everything.

After the celebrations wind down it is important to finish off the job and end the club's 35-year wait for silverware.

We won't have a better chance of getting the monkey off our back.

If we do not win the final, everything else we have done in the competition this season will not have been worthwhile.

We must go there with the same attitude - and lift that cup.