Edwin Van Der Sar | Manchester United’s Champions League Triumph 10 Years On

Of course, ten years, magical memories. Going to your right, seeing the ball coming towards you, on your fist and getting up. Those two, three, four seconds on your own, you see the players coming towards you. Every time you see it, not that often, I don't watch it every week, but it's the greatest moment in your life. I think the English are not that good at penalties, as you said already, Man Utd are the same. But the Germans, I think they have a 97-98% winning rate. I think I studied myself. Normally I studied the penalty takers, and Chelsea really studied my habits, my patterns. I think they did that really well. Frank, I faced him a couple of times. They were always getting cheap penalties at Stamford Bridge, also in the league. He beat me most of the time, and unfortunately also this one in Moscow. I was disappointed with that one. I would have thought that should have been my penalty already. As a defender, I should have saved that one. And it will be left to John Terry to take the penalty, which could put the European Cup in his hands. Yeah, of course it was a slippery pitch. I slipped with the first goal. So of course, the moment I dived to the right, and you see the ball going to the left, and you see it in the blink of your eyes, and it went over the post and out. That feeling that, OK, this is not going to go wrong, this is our match, this is our trophy. To give them the trophy. Oh, he's missed it! He's missed it! Outside of the post on its way past, Ronaldo is reprieved, and the shootout will go on. I've seen some nice pictures also, and I'm standing over him. I think in general, quite a nice guy. But that image, just standing in front of him, was not me. That was their strategy, going to the left. I think they analysed my penalty, so they re-analysed that, and that's why also at a certain point I started feeling, every ball goes to the left, why is that? So I tried to make my little plan for the seventh penalty. Yeah, normally as a striker, you know if you've scored probably 150, 200 goals already, so he knows what to be collected, to be calm, to score, the heart rate doesn't go up. But I don't think he felt confident when he walked up, and luckily I could do some movements, I reacted a little bit and pointed to the left. I know your game now, I know where you'll take the penalty, so I'm going to go left now. And luckily he took the bait, and I went to the right and the ball came to the right for me. This one was an easy save, of course you need to go to the right corner, but it comes towards you and the moment it touches your hands, it goes out and you get up, and it's the best feeling in the world. I'm quite collected, I just stood there and the guy's coming towards you, and you take three or four seconds on your own, and you see the guy's coming and bam, and everything happens. I think Ronnie collapsed on the pitch, and I think Wasa touched a couple of the guys and jumped over the boards with all the rest on top of me, and I got a great picture with Fletcher and Michael Carrick and Anderson. For myself also, as a goalkeeper you never make your saves, you play the ball from the back and catch the corner, but to be a striker who scores at the last minute, or the only goal of the game, and you win a game as a striker, for a goalkeeper it's much more difficult, so for myself winning the Champions League for United in Moscow, after extra time and penalties, was fantastic.