Capello is normally one of the most reserved coaches in Serie A but the win against his former club, which took Juventus into the quarter-finals, saw him wildly celebrating as he charged to the dressing room.

"It is never an easy business defeating Real Madrid and so that was a special feeling," said Capello, "I think it is the first time I have celebrated like that but now I've done it, I'd like to try it again."

"It was a very tough game for both teams. We played well and gave them very few chances. It was really an excellent performance from us. We gave away little and were also dangerous, which hasn't always been the case of late," added the Juve coach.

"It's a great result for us, to come back from a 1-0 defeat in Madrid and turn it around here was always going to be difficult. But we played with intelligence, spirit and quality."

Capello gave particular credit to Gianluca Pessotto, standing in for the injured Pavel Nedved on the left and Zalayeta who started in place of Trezeguet, who was returning from illness.

"They are important players for the team because they work hard and seriously in training so that when they are called upon they are always ready," he said.

Real coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo said there had been little to choose between the teams. "It was tight throughout and it was the kind of match that we could have won and gone through," he said.

However Capello said that Juve had posed problems for Real with their direct approach.

"They were up against a team that didn't let them play as they wanted to. When we got the ball we got it forward as quickly as possible and that is what caused them problems," he said.

Luxemburgo defended his decision to take off Zinedine Zidane late in the second half, leaving Real without the former Juve man who had been their main threat.

"Zidane had a problem at the start of the game and it got progressively worse but it was a tactical decision," said Luxemburgo who brought Guti on shortly before Trezeguet's goal.