Paul Scholes picks out the two best clubs he faced with Manchester United

Paul Scholes has picked out the two best clubs he faced during his spell at Old Trafford: Pep Guardiola's brilliant Barcelona and Real Madrid side from the early 2000s. Guardiola's team won two Champions League triumphs, beating Sir Alex Ferguson’s side back in the 2009 and 2011 finals. Scholes has insisted the Spanish giants were the best team he faced with the Red Devils, adding that the Real Madrid squad was a close second. He told A Goal In One Podcast: “We were quite unlucky really. In any other era we might have won four, five, or six European Cups.  But the teams that were about…you look at Guardiola’s Barcelona team – Jesus, how good were they?! You could go right through the team. In midfield you had Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Sergio Busquets and Lionel Messi. Henry on the left. Centre halves of Gerard Pique and Carlos Puyol. Just unreal. They’re without doubt the best team I’ve played against. They’re one of the best teams that’s ever been. But If I go a bit further back and think of the Real Madrid side that we played against. We got absolutely battered in the Bernabeu one year. 3-1 it was in the first game but what a team that was. It’s not far away from that Barcelona team. They had the Brazilian Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Redondo was unreal, Raul, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Iker Casillas in goal, that was a team that was just ridiculous. We came up against some ridiculous teams. We did alright against them but Barcelona just had that edge over that great Real Madrid team.”

Source: TEAMtalk

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