![]() The United players’ legs started to fade – you could feel it – the Barcelona players were continuing to move the ball from deep positions, they were starting to pick United off, moving the ball through midfield and eventually their legs started to go. “I remember after about 20 minutes the game changing. “Pep Guardiola had come in for Frank Rijkaard and it was the first time I’d ever seen centre-backs so deep, so deep, on the touchline almost, and thinking ‘this is madness – this is madness’. They’d beaten them the year before in a very different style of play. They’re just going to keep winning the ball off them and they’ll score. “They didn’t – and I remember Barcelona kept doing it and I was thinking ‘United are going to do them here’. “I remember sitting in the stands, it was Barcelona v Manchester United, and seeing Pique and Yaya Toure, three yards from the touchline, Valdes in net and Busquets going to the edge of the box – and Manchester United putting on a high press for about 10-15 minutes, dispossessing Barcelona a couple of times and could have scored. ![]()
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