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2010–11 UEFA Champions League
56th season of the UEFA club football tournament
Wembley Stadium in London hosted the final | |
| Dates | Qualifying: 29 June – 25 August 2010 Competition proper: 14 September 2010 – 28 May 2011 |
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| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 76 (from 52 associations) |
| Champions | Barcelona (4th title) |
| Runners-up | Manchester United |
| Matches played | 125 |
| Goals scored | 355 (2.84 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 12 goals |
← 2009–10 2011–12 → | |
International football competition
The 2010–11 UEFA Champions League was the 56th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 19th under the UEFA Champions League format. The final was held at Wembley Stadium in London on 28 May 2011,[1] where Barcelona defeated Manchester United 3–1.
Internazionale were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Schalke 04 in the quarter-finals. As winners, Bar
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Always remember, Wayne Rooney lived the dream
For all the denial Rooney sympathisers might have been, we were puzzled by how someone would almost glory in a man’s misfortune, especially a mere footballer, even if he’s an extremely well paid one.
In wanting to grab Rooney supporters by the head and making them to see a current reality, the likes of Matt have tended to go to the other extreme of avoiding another reality themselves.
During the past summer’s Euro 2016 campaign which highlighted how Rooney was a shadow of the player he once was, Cooper tweeted: ‘Seriously, for all the talk, was Wayne Rooney ever really world class? If he had played in another league would we have noticed?’ From 2007 to 2011, Manchester United played in another league – the Champions League – and reached either its semi-final or final each of those years, bar one, in 2010, when Rooney was having probably his most outstanding season of all; had he not limped off against eventual winners Bayern Munich
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Manchester United’s Rooney impossible to replace, says Moyes
David Moyes, the Manchester United manager, admitted it would have been impossible to replace talisman Wayne Rooney at Old Trafford.
Rooney celebrated signing a new five-and-a-half year contract by sealing United's 2-0 Premier League win at Crystal Palace with a superb volleyed finish to double the advantage following Robin van Persie's penalty.
Following the success at Selhurst Park which put United sixth in the table, Manchester manager Moyes saluted the 28-year-old England striker and believes he will only get better after putting him in the bracket of the best players in world football.
Moyes said: “He’s a really important player and you think about the amount of clubs who wanted to sign him. He would have been too difficult to replace. There aren’t enough top players out there that you can get cheaply or easily.
“Wayne’s one of them, one of the top players. He shows it week in, week out for us and you can see the