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Paul Scholes explains why Manchester United didn't dominate Champions League

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Paul Scholes has explained why he believes Manchester United struggled to dominate on the European scene when he was a player.

Scholes was part of United sides that reached four Champions League finals, with United winning two of them in 1999 and 2008, but losing in 2009 and 2011, both times to Barcelona.

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona side of 2008-2012 is widely regarded as one of the greatest club sides in European history. While Real Madrid, who boasted a star-studded squad in the early 2000s, were another side who stopped United from adding to their European Cup tally earlier in the century.

And Scholes believes that in any other era United might have won the competition several more times. "We were quite unlucky really.

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