Katie McCabe expressed pride in her Arsenal team-mates after the Gunners agonisingly missed out on reaching the Women's Champions League final following a 3-2 extra-time defeat to Wolfsburg in front of a sold-out Emirates Stadium.
Pauline Bremer's extra-time goal made the difference as the Germans won 5-4 on aggregate.
Arsenal opened the scoring through Stina Blackstenius in front of the 60,063 attendance - a record for a women's club game in England - but the strike was cancelled out by former Gunner Jill Roord before half-time.
Wolfsburg skipper Alexandra Popp pulled the visitors ahead after the restart before Jen Beattie's equaliser forced extra time.
Republic of Ireland captain McCabe, who will lead Vera Pauw's squad at their maiden FIFA Women's World Cup appearance in Australia this summer, played all 120 minutes of the second leg on Monday night and came inches from putting her side ahead in extra time only to see what appeared to be an attempted cross hit the bar.
It wasn't to be for the north London outfit, who remain the only English side to have won the European club title, as their German opponents instead set up a meeting with Barcelona in the June 3 Eindhoven final.
"To be honest, I'm quite speechless. I'm just so proud of the girls. We gave absolutely everything out there," McCabe told DAZN.
"We ran for each other, we worked for each other. Then they scored the winner very, very late on and I'm just so proud of the girls and how we've given everything tonight and worked for each other."
Arsenal were depleted by injuries during the season and McCabe felt how manager Jonas Eidevall's team reacted was impressive.
"It says a lot about us with losing really high-quality players in Beth Mead early on and then most recently Leah (Williamson) and Kim (Little), our captain and vice-captain, so it's been difficult but we've stuck together and kept together and instilled that belief in us that we can go on and challenge in these sorts of tournaments," she said.
"Credit to Wolfsburg, they kept it going and we made it difficult for them but I'm honestly just so proud of the girls."
Additional reporting: PA
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