WE ARE IN THE FINAL !!!!! YEAHHHHH
MANCHESTER UNITED 1 : 0 BARCELONA
Rio Ferdinand praised United for "digging deep" to get past Barcelona and reach the Champions League final on Tuesday night.
A wonderful Paul Scholes goal gave United the lead, but some valiant defending was needed to stave off Barcelona's challenge.
"We had to dig deep in the end, but we feel we did enough to get there," Rio admitted after the game.
"We had to show discipline, quality in the goal from Paul Scholes - and what a goal! - and then resilience. We stuck together and we're there now."
Ferdinand and Wes Brown were rocks at the centre of a resilient defence.
United will play either Liverpool or Chelsea in the final, but Rio insists he doesn't care who the Reds' opponents are.
"I don't care who we face in the final," he added. "We're there and that's all that matters."
"The fans were absolutely brilliant," When our crowd gets like that, we never let them down. They make such an impact, they force us to play.""He scored in the second game of the season at Portsmouth and then today he’s come up with another one!" We’ve seen so many great goals from Paul in the past but tonight, considering the occasion and the importance of the game, he scored an absolutely magnificent goal.""I just hope my pacemaker’s working! If not, I’m in trouble!" “Our home form in Europe has been absolutely outstanding and it needed to be tonight because I have to pay great credit to Barcelona, a club with great philosophy," he added."Their sportsmanship at the end of the game showed what a great club they are. "I just feel tonight we have beaten a fantastic football club and a great team and that puts our performance in perspective. I think it was marvellous." remarked Sir Alex Ferguson.
