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What a game, ladies and gentlemen, what a game.
Last night's Man Utd - Barcelona match was truly the embodiment of a European Night. More than that, it was one of the most intense semi-finals ever (well, for me at least)! The only other semi-final on the top of my head that I remember was this intense was the one against Arsenal in the Treble Season of 98/99, in the FA Cup. The elements were all there. Two of the greatest teams in Europe, some of the best players the world has ever seen, including the recently crowned PFA player of the year, a stellar 75,000 Old Trafford Faithful and a picturesque sunset to top it all off.
For me, when all was said and done, it all came down to one man.
Paul Scholes, one of the last few survivors of that fateful night at Nou Camp, along with Ryan Giggs and Wes Brown (With Roy Keane and Solskjaer still in the scene), fittingly blasted the ball into the top right of the goal to send United into the Final. He seemed to be a man on a mission, a man desperate to extinguish the ghosts of his past and to sort a personal vendetta.
Headlines on Soccernet:
Fergie: Scholes first name on Moscow team sheet
It's for times like these that you watch the beautiful game.
When Scholes scored I was like this:
After the match I was like this:
Last night's Man Utd - Barcelona match was truly the embodiment of a European Night. More than that, it was one of the most intense semi-finals ever (well, for me at least)! The only other semi-final on the top of my head that I remember was this intense was the one against Arsenal in the Treble Season of 98/99, in the FA Cup. The elements were all there. Two of the greatest teams in Europe, some of the best players the world has ever seen, including the recently crowned PFA player of the year, a stellar 75,000 Old Trafford Faithful and a picturesque sunset to top it all off.
For me, when all was said and done, it all came down to one man.
Paul Scholes, one of the last few survivors of that fateful night at Nou Camp, along with Ryan Giggs and Wes Brown (With Roy Keane and Solskjaer still in the scene), fittingly blasted the ball into the top right of the goal to send United into the Final. He seemed to be a man on a mission, a man desperate to extinguish the ghosts of his past and to sort a personal vendetta.
Headlines on Soccernet:
Fergie: Scholes first name on Moscow team sheet
It's for times like these that you watch the beautiful game.
When Scholes scored I was like this:
After the match I was like this:
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