{"id":417608,"date":"2011-05-04T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/barcelona-manchester-united-to-contest-champions-league-final-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:45:00","slug":"barcelona-manchester-united-to-contest-champions-league-final-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/barcelona-manchester-united-to-contest-champions-league-final-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona &#038; Manchester United to contest Champions League final 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Subhankar Mondal<\/h3>\n<h4>4 May 2011 21:45:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.1693735499\">\n<div readability=\"14.3157894737\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barcelona, Real Madrid, Champions League\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/130700\/130702_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barcelona, Real Madrid, Champions League<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd-news\">Manchester United<\/a> will confront each other in the final of the Champions League for the second time in three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the Spanish champions got the better of their arch-rivals Real Madrid 3-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals, the Red Devils swept aside German opposition Schalke in the last four by a score of 6-1 over the two legs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson met each other in the finale of Europe\u2019s premier club competition in 2008-09 at the Olimpico in Rome. At the time Barca ran out comfortable 2-0 winners, with Samuel Eto\u2019o and Lionel Messi etching their names on the scoresheet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This time the final is at Wembley in London on May 28. Barcelona won their first European Cup in 1991-1992 at the old Wembley stadium and will be hoping to conquer Europe for the fourth time in their history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for United, it will be their third appearance in the final in four years and Sir Alex will aspire to win his fourth Champions League trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Follow Goal.com on<span>\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goal_intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>. Get the latest football news direct&#8230; Check out Goal.com&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Goal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0page; be part of the best football fan community in the world!<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/05\/04\/2471738\/barcelona-manchester-united-to-contest-champions-league\" title=\"Barcelona &amp; Manchester United to contest Champions League final 2011\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona &amp; Manchester United to contest Champions League final 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Subhankar Mondal 4 May 2011 21:45:00 Barcelona, Real Madrid, Champions League Related Links Teams Barcelona and Manchester United will confront each other in the final of the Champions League for the second time in three years. While the Spanish champions got the better of their arch-rivals Real Madrid 3-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals, the Red Devils swept aside German opposition Schalke in the last four by a score of 6-1 over the two legs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona &amp; Manchester United to contest Champions League final 2011 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/barcelona-manchester-united-to-contest-champions-league-final-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barcelona &amp; Manchester United to contest Champions League final 2011 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Subhankar Mondal 4 May 2011 21:45:00 Barcelona, Real Madrid, Champions League Related Links Teams Barcelona and Manchester United will confront each other in the final of the Champions League for the second time in three years. 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