“Rooney came up to me before the end of the game [the 2009 CL final]. It must have been around the eighty minute mark, something like that. And Rooney said to me: ‘That’s enough. You’ve won. You can stop playing the ball around now’,” Andres Iniesta recalled in his book The Artist.
Even while being 2-0 up, Barcelona continued controlling the ball comfortably – just what they usually did in their prime tiki-taka days. Without a doubt, it annoyed the majority of the teams they faced back then.
Barca won the 2009 final thanks to the goals from Samuel Eto’o and Leo Messi. Iniesta was subbed off in the stoppage time that night.
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