Carlos Queiroz: ‘Where have all the stars at Manchester United gone?’

I remember on here at least that the response to Barca winning against Chelsea was that it was a good result for Utd. Classic night on the forum that with the Drogba gifs by the way.

Quite a great deal of revisionism in all honesty, Utd were an outstanding European team at that stage, the records they set for unbeaten runs still stand. To say that everyone knew what was going to happen is wrong, maybe Sparky did, but then he had been preaching doom for nearly every match when Utd were the best team in Europe.

2011 was a different affair, a Utd on the downturn against peak Barca.

Scholes not starting either game feels like a mistake, on form he did not deserve to, Giggs was playing better at both stages of those 2 seasons, as was Ando in 2009, as hard as that may be to believe now. However we missed his ability to quickly move the ball away from the intense pressing that was Barca's great strength.