Former Manchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan has revealed the confidence boost he received from Scott Carson ahead of the Champions League final.
Barcelona’s new boy led his team to the final part of a historic Treble after a hard-fought 1-0 victory at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, the same venue that played host to Liverpool’s dramatic European Cup win nearly two decades earlier.
Aside from the location, the other constant in both feats was City’s third-choice stopper Scott Carson, who similarly watched on in 2005 as Jerzy Dudek thwarted AC Milan’s Andriy Shevchenko to claim the crown for the Reds.