After a season-long battle for top spot in the Premier League, the Reds and Blues faced off in Russia to decide the outcome of another trophy.
Much like the title race, it was Sir Alex Ferguson’s men who ultimately overcame the Londoners that night in Moscow, and, speaking exactly a decade on, Michael Carrick reflected on the most memorable match of his career.
“The build-up for Moscow almost began a year earlier,”
he said in 2018.
“We’d won the Premier League in 2006/07 and if you'd asked me beforehand, I'd have expected to have the best summer ever after that.