Manchester United FC 4-1 FC Schalke 04 (agg: 6-1)
Anderson scored twice as Sir Alex Ferguson's side completed a comfortable aggregate victory to set up a repeat of the 2009 final in London on 28 May. Manchester United FC secured a Wembley date with FC Barcelona on 28 May, their fifth appearance in European football's showpiece game, with a comprehensive victory against FC Schalke 04.Antonio Valencia and Darron Gibson scored inside the opening third to turn Schalke's already herculean task into a mission impossible. Although José Manuel Jurado replied before the break, Anderson's second-half double sealed a 6-1 aggregate triumph and Sir Alex Ferguson can now start devising a plan to avenge United's 2009 UEFA Champions League final loss to Barcelona.United will be going back to the future in their quest for a fourth European crown. It was at the old Wembley in 1968 that they first held aloft the European Champion Clubs' Cup. The presence of Barcelona also provides a rematch of not just Rome 2009 but also the 1991 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in Rotterdam that brought Sir Alex his first European trophy as United manager.Whatever Wembley brings, one certainty is the watching Josep Guardiola will face a very different United lineup. Sir Alex, mindful of Sunday's potentially decisive Premier League meeting with Chelsea FC, included just two of the players who had started the first leg – Edwin van der Sar and Valencia – and it was the latter who took them a step closer to the final after 26 minutes.http://fw.f9.sl.pt
Anderson scored twice as Sir Alex Ferguson's side completed a comfortable aggregate victory to set up a repeat of the 2009 final in London on 28 May. Manchester United FC secured a Wembley date with FC Barcelona on 28 May, their fifth appearance in European football's showpiece game, with a comprehensive victory against FC Schalke 04.Antonio Valencia and Darron Gibson scored inside the opening third to turn Schalke's already herculean task into a mission impossible. Although José Manuel Jurado replied before the break, Anderson's second-half double sealed a 6-1 aggregate triumph and Sir Alex Ferguson can now start devising a plan to avenge United's 2009 UEFA Champions League final loss to Barcelona.United will be going back to the future in their quest for a fourth European crown. It was at the old Wembley in 1968 that they first held aloft the European Champion Clubs' Cup. The presence of Barcelona also provides a rematch of not just Rome 2009 but also the 1991 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in Rotterdam that brought Sir Alex his first European trophy as United manager.Whatever Wembley brings, one certainty is the watching Josep Guardiola will face a very different United lineup. Sir Alex, mindful of Sunday's potentially decisive Premier League meeting with Chelsea FC, included just two of the players who had started the first leg – Edwin van der Sar and Valencia – and it was the latter who took them a step closer to the final after 26 minutes.http://fw.f9.sl.pt
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