“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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