2006-09 Semi Finals: 06-07 - United, Chelsea, Liverpool 07-08 - United, Liverpool, Chelsea 08-09 - Chelsea, United, Arsenal 2005-12 Finals: United - 3 Finals - 1 Victory Liverpool - 2 Finals - 1 Victory Chelsea - 2 Finals - 1 Victory Arsenal - 1 Final PRIME BIG FOUR🔥
Arsenal were such a better team than Barca too in 2006. Lehmann getting sent off sucks and they still should have won it but for 2 absolute blunders by Almunia.
07/08 arsenal was different level. Peak wengerball for me. Playing football like a futsal, Top of EPL until March, before eduardo broken legs. Eliminated former champions Milan 0-2 convicingly, only got robbed by Babel and Liverpool. And yes that was a penalty for Hleb. What the hell.
But English teams only won the Champions League twice in that 5 year period 💀 they’ve won it 3 times in the last 5 years. We’re currently witnessing peak dominance from English teams in Europe (other than the 1970s and 80s)
@@PSTV999 true but the big 4 back then would consistently make it into the semi final: 2007 - Chelsea, man united, Liverpool 2008 - Chelsea, man united, Liverpool 2009 - Chelsea, man united, arsenal English teams may have dominated the champions league for the past 5 years but not one time out of those 5 years did we ever see 3 English teams in the semi final
I remember it well. From about 2005-10, there would be the epic do or die encounters between the english clubs in the knock out rounds. As a Liverpool fan, i loved it. Whether we won or lost, those battles against Chelsea especially were something special.
The funny thing is, that Liverpool team wasn't as strong as it is today. But it somehow thrived in European nights while Klopp's current Liverpool don't pose much threat in Europe.
@@iceice0000 This is ignorance at best. You want to say that team who was in 3 Champions league finals, winning 1 champions league in the process, all in the last 6 years, doesn't pose a threat in Europe? This Liverpool team will be a team to avoid next year's champions league.
@@dusanstanojkovic41 standards dropped kid. Back then the UCL had much more stronger teams, and Liverpool pulled through. Nowadays anyone can win the UCL. Chelsea wasn't great in 2021 and pull it off.
@iceice0000 lol, kid. Haha Standards didn't drop, tactics changed, but if you think that this City team, who are current holders, couldn't compete with best of the best ever, you are just plain wrong. You can only beat who you have in front of you, and as I said, reaching 3 finals in 6 years is admirable for any Era, any team, period.. As for Chelsea winning it,let's not mention history, where you had teams like Red Star, Dortmund, or even Liverpool winning it as these winners with all their star power at time couldn't even resemble those of their competitors. Winning champions league has never been easy, and if you think it's "easier" today than it was 15 years ago you are mistaken. Old man ;)
That arsenal v Liverpool lost still annoys me that the penalty wasn’t given in the first leg but then was given in the second for the same foul. This is why arsenal fans psychologically hate refs. Years of abuse and inconsistency.
At the beginning of 2000, during the fierce rivalry of Manchester and Arsenal, I repeatedly noticed that Manchester was being sued, especially at the end of the 1st championship, do I remember clearly when Manchester was pulled out to win the championship. Several times there were publications in the press that wrote that the English aristocracy disliked Wenger how are the foreigner.
this was a great era but people need to remember that the current era is also dominant for English football. Out of the last 6 UCL finals, there has been 7 English teams
And even recently Liverpool, Chelsea and City have not only won it but been finalists also on losing matches but there's been an English team in the final repeatedly.
they are still dominating tho, EPL clubs in the last 5 UCL seasons : - 4 different teams in the finals - 3 different champions teams - 2 times all england finals - Liverpool had 3 finals appearances and Man City had 2 appearances
That 07/08 Arsenal team was special imo if that Eduardo leg break hadn't of happened we would of won the league and POSSIBLY gone on to meet United in the final and Wenger could of had his redemption arc... yeah I know should could woulda but God that team had unreal potential
No Arsenal transfer window, from 07-13, was ever complete until Wenger uttered the following “when we get Diaby back healthy it will be like a new signing”. Aka building the Emirates Stadium cost too much, so unless we buy young players (Nasri, Rosicky, Ramsey, Walcott) or undervalued vets (Eduardo, Santi, Arteta, Nacho) on the cheap, a fully fit Diaby is the best I can offer. If only Stan Kroenke & the other owners cared enough back then, maybe Arsene would have got 1 more league title or his coveted UCL trophy before leaving in 2018.
The job Wenger did from 07-13 is the most underrated in history. Competing for all titles, just falling short (and in a lot of cases bad refereeing). Imagine how well he could have done with a budget like current managers
if you take a look at the Madrid team that dominated Europe during 2010s, nearly half the team consisted of players bought from the Premier League. CR7, Bale, Modric, Xabi Alonso, Carvalho, they were the backbones for the Madrid, and without them, Madrid would not be able to dominate Europe like they did.
In 7 years between 2005-2012 English clubs were in 6 Finals but... won only 3, i guess that's why that Era is remembered as the Spanish Era instead...simply because of Barcelona and Spain's All Conquering Ridiculous Squads and Titles to show. I think if Ferguson could have been backed like Jose at Chelsea he could have won all the Finals he lost in that Era. Man UTD 2011 Squad was weak and if you look at their performances in Europe after that you won't be surprised, in 2013 against Real Madrid they gave their all and a little bit of World Class players like a Lahm or Xabi Alonso they would have beat Jose's Madrid.
Ограбили?! Это ты считаешь ограбили? А что тогда было в финале лиги чемпионов в 2006? Почему удалили Леманна? Ведь гол был забит, максимум желтая, на прямую красную фол не тянул!!! Судья убил просто тот финал на 18й минуте
Clive Tyldesley on the commentary, just light years ahead of anyone on BT these days. Whoever thought we'd want to hear Steve Mcmanaman's whiny scouse voice doesn't deserve any kind of executive job
Three of the last five CL winners are not only English teams, but three different English teams. Two of the last five CL finals have been all-English finals. Six of these 10 final spots have gone to four different English sides. They are once again dominating Europe. Way too many people confuse individual teams with overall league strength. No other league provides this much diverse quality in the CL in recent history. England have put 4 different teams in the final in the last 5 finals. That’s as many as Italy, Spain, France, and Germany combined in the same timeframe. From an English representation perspective, it’s a shame liverpool shat the bed domestically last season. I think we all predicted United and Newcastle would struggle to make it out of the group stage this season.
The true big four Nowadays it's like big 2 or just City Idfk But if we want to go even more back when English teams truly dominated Europe, it was 1977-1985. Liverpool lifted 4 and lost 1 final, Nottingham lifted 2 and Aston Villa lifted 1
Between 2004/05 and 2008/09 Chelsea and Liverpool met 3 times in the semifinals and last year in the quarterfinals. That's why Torres' Chelsea sign hurt so much, in addition it meant the collapse of the club and not qualifying for the Champions League again until Klopp arrival. What a time!
My first day working as supervisor and the day after this game I have to work for grand opening some company. I force myself to sleeping so i can awake at midnight and watch the game. I make it to awake, but maybe because too tired for the preparations, i cant watch the wole game, then the game is takes too long time, over 120 minutes, shit memory.. I'll never forget about this as Manchester United fans.
In the last five Champion's League finals, 6 of the 10 teams that played were English... It seems that English teams are still doing pretty well in Europe.
This kinda happened recently in some years as well. English teams either eliminate each other or got eliminated by the eventual champions only. And I can think of twice recently the finalists are English teams as well. Football really does come in cycles.
The English teams dominated in the late seventies early 80 winning 7 out of 8 european cups, 2 UEFA cups and 1 cup-winners cup. This period wasn't even close. Football existed before 1992.
an all english quarterfinal, semifinal and final. 2008 was the year for english clubs. Ironically england didn't even qualify to the euros of that year.
Real Madrid are the only Spanish team to even reach the UCL final in EIGHT years. 4 different EPL clubs, 3 English winners, 2 all English finals, and 7 since 2018-2023.
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Chelsea vs Liverpool CL nights in the mid 2000s were absolute cinema.
I still remember that mental 4-4 draw at the Bridge.
That 4-4, my god
Streets will never forget
Or the back-to-back 0-0s in the 05-06 group stage...
4-4 was a cracker of a game
Bro my sis was being such a pain in the ass that night I almost missed the game. Thank God I didn't.
When football was amazing. great legends fighting spirit, discipline,miss those days. thanks for this.
2006-09 Semi Finals:
06-07 - United, Chelsea, Liverpool
07-08 - United, Liverpool, Chelsea
08-09 - Chelsea, United, Arsenal
2005-12 Finals:
United - 3 Finals - 1 Victory
Liverpool - 2 Finals - 1 Victory
Chelsea - 2 Finals - 1 Victory
Arsenal - 1 Final
PRIME BIG FOUR🔥
Only 3 victories though, the same number of victories in the last 5 years 🤷♂️
@@rizkywira8595lool literally. A north London club losing in the final in both eras too
This is what you call history.
Arsenal were such a better team than Barca too in 2006. Lehmann getting sent off sucks and they still should have won it but for 2 absolute blunders by Almunia.
Before oil money came. What a great era it was.
What a goalie in his prime. Petr Cech 🔥
I start watching football in that era. The way they play was so fast, strong and full of passion
When football was so amazing, Missing those Great legends. . .
We don't see football like this no more 💔😢
07/08 arsenal was different level. Peak wengerball for me. Playing football like a futsal, Top of EPL until March, before eduardo broken legs. Eliminated former champions Milan 0-2 convicingly, only got robbed by Babel and Liverpool. And yes that was a penalty for Hleb. What the hell.
That Arsenal team was soft. Lets not change reality.
That was really peak dominance from English teams from 2005-2009
But English teams only won the Champions League twice in that 5 year period 💀 they’ve won it 3 times in the last 5 years. We’re currently witnessing peak dominance from English teams in Europe (other than the 1970s and 80s)
@@PSTV999 true but the big 4 back then would consistently make it into the semi final:
2007 - Chelsea, man united, Liverpool
2008 - Chelsea, man united, Liverpool
2009 - Chelsea, man united, arsenal
English teams may have dominated the champions league for the past 5 years but not one time out of those 5 years did we ever see 3 English teams in the semi final
Ronaldo effect
What are you proud of if all these English teams get carried by foreigners. It’s never the English folks making the difference.
@@jnelo7it is these days
I imagine if you give Wenger this current Arsenal squad, he would bring to us another unbeaten. Pepe Reiner was so good
This is the 'real football' we watched when we're kids. Full of intensity and quality!...
Too bad my siblings will grow up in an era where a tap in merchant is a Balon d'Or nominee
English teams dominated again for a brief while during 2019
Liverpool vs Spurs (UCL)
Arsenal vs Chelsea (UEL)
I remember it well. From about 2005-10, there would be the epic do or die encounters between the english clubs in the knock out rounds. As a Liverpool fan, i loved it. Whether we won or lost, those battles against Chelsea especially were something special.
Hleb was never praise enough in my opinion. I'd always have him in my team, and I wouldn't have to fight for him either 👌🏻
GOLD old memories, so much legends on the field.
that was when football was real full of passion , fun and fight for the ball no cry for weak fouls but now it's like a video play
Champions League nights on ITV. The glory years.
Tell me about it 😢
Oviedo
Mid 2000s Liverpool were just something else. Incredible team.
The funny thing is, that Liverpool team wasn't as strong as it is today. But it somehow thrived in European nights while Klopp's current Liverpool don't pose much threat in Europe.
@@iceice00003 finals in 5 years isn't a threat 🤡
@@iceice0000 This is ignorance at best.
You want to say that team who was in 3 Champions league finals, winning 1 champions league in the process, all in the last 6 years, doesn't pose a threat in Europe?
This Liverpool team will be a team to avoid next year's champions league.
@@dusanstanojkovic41 standards dropped kid. Back then the UCL had much more stronger teams, and Liverpool pulled through. Nowadays anyone can win the UCL. Chelsea wasn't great in 2021 and pull it off.
@iceice0000 lol, kid. Haha
Standards didn't drop, tactics changed, but if you think that this City team, who are current holders, couldn't compete with best of the best ever, you are just plain wrong.
You can only beat who you have in front of you, and as I said, reaching 3 finals in 6 years is admirable for any Era, any team, period..
As for Chelsea winning it,let's not mention history, where you had teams like Red Star, Dortmund, or even Liverpool winning it as these winners with all their star power at time couldn't even resemble those of their competitors.
Winning champions league has never been easy, and if you think it's "easier" today than it was 15 years ago you are mistaken. Old man ;)
That's because they had the best coaches at that time. Sir Alex, wenger and Mourinho
Я вот вижу Арсен Венгер у тебя почему то с маленькой буквы написано, почему?
Cech was another level😮
That Lord Bendtner save
Dider Drogba was lethal😂
Ikr
those years when 3/4 of the semifinalists are always English teams. good times
2008 was a golden year of being a Man Utd fan. Sigh hopefully something like that happens again in the near future 😢
I swear to God, as a kid that 2007-08 season made me a United fan
Seriously bro. That United team was something else. I used to wear the Jersey with so much pride and go to college. Those were the glory days
@@bindumadhavpurohit7514 innit
What a baller diaby was
These were the days man!
I mean Liverpool and Chelsea met each other in quarter's or semi's 4 times in 5 years
Group Stage in 05/06 too!
And once in the group stage
@@pornsucks not even possible? how?
@@mysticalA153 there wasn't country protection until 06/07 season I think
@@mysticalA153 they were together in 05/06 group stage both games ended goalless
I miss this Chelsea team
That arsenal v Liverpool lost still annoys me that the penalty wasn’t given in the first leg but then was given in the second for the same foul. This is why arsenal fans psychologically hate refs. Years of abuse and inconsistency.
At the beginning of 2000, during the fierce rivalry of Manchester and Arsenal, I repeatedly noticed that Manchester was being sued, especially at the end of the 1st championship, do I remember clearly when Manchester was pulled out to win the championship. Several times there were publications in the press that wrote that the English aristocracy disliked Wenger how are the foreigner.
Chelsea FC had an unbelievable team especially: Drogba, Lampard, Terry and Cech.
this was a great era but people need to remember that the current era is also dominant for English football. Out of the last 6 UCL finals, there has been 7 English teams
I'm literally crying as a man u fan... Take me back to the days when..... 😭
Torres was a different beast back then
All these 4 teams would easily win the league now
The big 4 had legendary teams around that time
And even recently Liverpool, Chelsea and City have not only won it but been finalists also on losing matches but there's been an English team in the final repeatedly.
How football changed... If this video was today it would be like 10 penalties and 5 red cards
It's difficult to even cheer a goal when VAR looks for every reason to overturn
Wow, this brings back a lot of fond memories. Great games.
the most fast paced exciting football i used to love
they are still dominating tho,
EPL clubs in the last 5 UCL seasons :
- 4 different teams in the finals
- 3 different champions teams
- 2 times all england finals
- Liverpool had 3 finals appearances and Man City had 2 appearances
Only because the usual clubs are pretty much rebuilding. We know that Spanish and German teams have been spanking them for a full decade.
@@michaelmatt9752 my point still stand tho
By German teams do you mean Bayern and by Spanish teams do you mean Barca and Real? Cuz there's not much after that.
@@scottses3that's enough for epl😂😂
@@Madridista159hahahaha imagine couple clubs spanking all their overrated Big teams
I dare say this is the absolute golden era of EPL. Miss the days of the Big 4.
That 07/08 Arsenal team was special imo if that Eduardo leg break hadn't of happened we would of won the league and POSSIBLY gone on to meet United in the final and Wenger could of had his redemption arc... yeah I know should could woulda but God that team had unreal potential
That was a clear Pen on Hypia. Still remember that game. But chealsea fans said it was payback for Garcia's goal
1:13 that was a pen for Arsenal from a United fan
No Arsenal transfer window, from 07-13, was ever complete until Wenger uttered the following “when we get Diaby back healthy it will be like a new signing”. Aka building the Emirates Stadium cost too much, so unless we buy young players (Nasri, Rosicky, Ramsey, Walcott) or undervalued vets (Eduardo, Santi, Arteta, Nacho) on the cheap, a fully fit Diaby is the best I can offer. If only Stan Kroenke & the other owners cared enough back then, maybe Arsene would have got 1 more league title or his coveted UCL trophy before leaving in 2018.
The job Wenger did from 07-13 is the most underrated in history. Competing for all titles, just falling short (and in a lot of cases bad refereeing). Imagine how well he could have done with a budget like current managers
And still playing with style which kept everyone on the edge of their seats.
if you take a look at the Madrid team that dominated Europe during 2010s, nearly half the team consisted of players bought from the Premier League.
CR7, Bale, Modric, Xabi Alonso, Carvalho, they were the backbones for the Madrid, and without them, Madrid would not be able to dominate Europe like they did.
In 7 years between 2005-2012 English clubs were in 6 Finals but... won only 3, i guess that's why that Era is remembered as the Spanish Era instead...simply because of Barcelona and Spain's All Conquering Ridiculous Squads and Titles to show.
I think if Ferguson could have been backed like Jose at Chelsea he could have won all the Finals he lost in that Era. Man UTD 2011 Squad was weak and if you look at their performances in Europe after that you won't be surprised, in 2013 against Real Madrid they gave their all and a little bit of World Class players like a Lahm or Xabi Alonso they would have beat Jose's Madrid.
The standard of the premier league was higher back then than today's premier league only man city can compete with those teams
Arsenal were robbed in 2008, Helb’s penalty wasn’t given in the 1st leg but Liverpool got one in the second leg when there was less contact 🤦♂️🤦♂️
It was an an unbelievable scam. Free penalty for Liverpool at Anfield back them. Total screwjob
😭😭😭😭 forever european flops
Ограбили?! Это ты считаешь ограбили? А что тогда было в финале лиги чемпионов в 2006? Почему удалили Леманна? Ведь гол был забит, максимум желтая, на прямую красную фол не тянул!!!
Судья убил просто тот финал на 18й минуте
@@aneeskemal4431 true but the refs didn't help once in 06 again in 08 and again in 2011
As a a Chelsea fan this still hurts alot even after witnessing Chelsea winning two champions league
Clive Tyldesley on the commentary, just light years ahead of anyone on BT these days. Whoever thought we'd want to hear Steve Mcmanaman's whiny scouse voice doesn't deserve any kind of executive job
This era is Where true football last seen
Best football UA-camr strikes again
Really enjoy your vids, keep goin buddy ;)
Three of the last five CL winners are not only English teams, but three different English teams. Two of the last five CL finals have been all-English finals. Six of these 10 final spots have gone to four different English sides. They are once again dominating Europe. Way too many people confuse individual teams with overall league strength. No other league provides this much diverse quality in the CL in recent history. England have put 4 different teams in the final in the last 5 finals. That’s as many as Italy, Spain, France, and Germany combined in the same timeframe.
From an English representation perspective, it’s a shame liverpool shat the bed domestically last season. I think we all predicted United and Newcastle would struggle to make it out of the group stage this season.
The Arsenal v Liverpool game is daylight robbery, howww😂
How I wish I could go back to 2007/08
That special not perfect sound and the big t shirts are adding a big fun to the game
The true big four
Nowadays it's like big 2 or just City Idfk
But if we want to go even more back when English teams truly dominated Europe, it was 1977-1985. Liverpool lifted 4 and lost 1 final, Nottingham lifted 2 and Aston Villa lifted 1
Indeed the true big 4
Underrated vid
Mate it was posted 5 minutes ago you haven't even finished it.
@@theov527 I watched it
It was a good season that. Some good games
What an era.
I remember this night like it was yesterday 😢
Gerrard in Europe was on another level. From a United Fan!
Between 2004/05 and 2008/09 Chelsea and Liverpool met 3 times in the semifinals and last year in the quarterfinals. That's why Torres' Chelsea sign hurt so much, in addition it meant the collapse of the club and not qualifying for the Champions League again until Klopp arrival. What a time!
Football between 2007-2009 just used to slap differently!
Jaman ane kuliah 2007…emang joss the big four waktu itu
Big four yang asli nih, cuma london biru sama si setan lagi ngelawak beberapa tahun ini.. 😁
What goes around, comes around. The domination will come around soon again.
Bendtner is legendary.
Vintage PL strikers were extra ordinary finishers
My first day working as supervisor and the day after this game I have to work for grand opening some company. I force myself to sleeping so i can awake at midnight and watch the game. I make it to awake, but maybe because too tired for the preparations, i cant watch the wole game, then the game is takes too long time, over 120 minutes, shit memory.. I'll never forget about this as Manchester United fans.
In the last five Champion's League finals, 6 of the 10 teams that played were English...
It seems that English teams are still doing pretty well in Europe.
English clubs will always do well. Biggest range of clubs in europe to have won the European title.
Those were the days! Damn...
What a superb history here!
Then prem seasons back then were unreal.
This kinda happened recently in some years as well. English teams either eliminate each other or got eliminated by the eventual champions only. And I can think of twice recently the finalists are English teams as well. Football really does come in cycles.
Big shoutout to Clive Tyldesley. Man is UCL.
Man arsenal got screwed hard with that Liverpool quarterfinal
Babel dived at Anfield. At The Emirates the referees failed to give 2 stone wall penalties.
Ty….is that you?
@@thestinger5846No but i’ve met Ty (lovely soul) and i’ve been on AFTV too.
@@samuddin3204Did you not let Ty know that he is in denial? You should almost be reported
@@samuddin3204the babel penalty could’ve gone either way honestly, but that hleb miss was absolutely horrid. I mean clear as day that’s a penalty.
Being a United fan nanis pen had us on the edge man😭😭😭😭
Liverpool were involved in some classics
What an era
Top video! Bravo for creator
Thanks for your videos ❤
I am a liverpool fans, but this Manchester United team is legendary..
If I were Wenger I wouldve let Bender walk back home after that game.. how can you not jump out of the way of the slowest shot ever
Forgot how lucky United were that night, Drogba and Lampard both so close to winning it
And how many saves did Peter Cech made to deny us the win. United were better simple as that
@@mohamedomar2367was a die hard utd fan then but we were lucky.
The English teams dominated in the late seventies early 80 winning 7 out of 8 european cups, 2 UEFA cups and 1 cup-winners cup. This period wasn't even close. Football existed before 1992.
90s Serie A
2000s EPL
2010s LaLiga
2020s?? Imo EPL teams will rise again
Spanish league will rise again has well
I couldn’t believe arsenal missed such easy chances. Thank God for the arsenal today
an all english quarterfinal, semifinal and final.
2008 was the year for english clubs.
Ironically england didn't even qualify to the euros of that year.
Intense football ⚡️
As an Arsenal fan how I wish we had the current defence plus Declan rice in that arsenal side
The defence back then were better though, conceded less goals in the Premier League for both 2006-07 and 2007-08 than current Arsenal defence.
I effing love Edwin ❤️
Real Madrid are the only Spanish team to even reach the UCL final in EIGHT years. 4 different EPL clubs, 3 English winners, 2 all English finals, and 7 since 2018-2023.
back in the day u don't allow someone like Torres to do a 180, if that happens it's a goal.
Arsenal were beaten by Liverpool, Liverpool was beaten by Chelsea, and Chelsea then got beaten in the finals by Almighty Manchester United.❤️
Lord Bendtner 😂
Then a year later UEFAlona denied the Man United/Chelsea rematch.
Hahahaha lord bender never gets old