The losing side of last night's Champions League final, Manchester United, has admitted Barcelona were the better team and deserved to win the title.
Barcelona triumphed 2-0 in Rome with a goal in each half from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi.
"I think the first goal was a killer," United boss Sir Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports. "The first attack they had they scored and that was a bad start to the game for us.
"We started brightly too, very confident but we got a little nervous after that of course and when they have a goal they can keep the ball all night and we just didn't have enough.
"We has some good half-chances in the second-half, and we perhaps should have done better - but in fairness we were beaten by a better team."
And defensive stalwarts Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidić echoed those thoughts.
"We didn't come here and give a good account of ourselves," Ferdinand said.
"We have played better 99 percent of the time this season, but saying that we created four or five good opportunities to score, but they scored two goals at crucial times and two bad goals on our part.
"But we have no arguments, they were the better team on the day, you have got to do it on the day - if we played better or played to our strengths it would have been a different game, but if you don't do it on the day you don't deserve to win."
Vidić agreed, adding: "We didn't play well.
"They had a good game and scored at the right time - then we chased the game and they had space to counter attack us, they deserved to win."
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Barcelona triumphed 2-0 in Rome with a goal in each half from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi.
"I think the first goal was a killer," United boss Sir Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports. "The first attack they had they scored and that was a bad start to the game for us.
"We started brightly too, very confident but we got a little nervous after that of course and when they have a goal they can keep the ball all night and we just didn't have enough.
"We has some good half-chances in the second-half, and we perhaps should have done better - but in fairness we were beaten by a better team."
And defensive stalwarts Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidić echoed those thoughts.
"We didn't come here and give a good account of ourselves," Ferdinand said.
"We have played better 99 percent of the time this season, but saying that we created four or five good opportunities to score, but they scored two goals at crucial times and two bad goals on our part.
"But we have no arguments, they were the better team on the day, you have got to do it on the day - if we played better or played to our strengths it would have been a different game, but if you don't do it on the day you don't deserve to win."
Vidić agreed, adding: "We didn't play well.
"They had a good game and scored at the right time - then we chased the game and they had space to counter attack us, they deserved to win."
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