Unlike their experience in losing the first leg of their last-16 tie on home soil 2-0 to Paris Saint-Germain, United were not outclassed by the Catalan giants in a 1-0 defeat on Wednesday.
LONDON – Manchester United's powers of recovery carried them to a first Champions League quarterfinal in five years but even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admits beating Barcelona in the Camp Nou is maybe one mountain too many to climb.
Implausibly, Solskjaer's men turned the PSG tie around with a famous 3-1 victory in Paris, but the task of overturning a home defeat against a side of serial Champions League winners is an even tougher one. But he also played a part in a less-heralded moment of the club's history, a first-ever home defeat in European football, at the hands of Fenerbahce in 1996.Fortress Old Trafford provided the launchpad for Alex Ferguson's sides to regularly compete for Champions League glory.
Against Barcelona, the hosts did not even manage a single shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time since 2005.
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