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Hargreaves: Moscow shootout was mental torture!

The former England international walked up to the spot with the pressure firmly on him, after Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty had been saved by Petr Cech.

“Basically, all the Chelsea boys I had played with pretty much my whole life,” he recalled. “Joe Cole, Wayne Bridge, Ashley Cole, John Terry... they were [in] my England Under-21 team. Ballack was with me at Bayern [Munich] for years.

“I remember walking up and thinking: those idiots are going to tell Cech that I’m going top-left.”

Hargreaves explains how he wrestled with conflicting thoughts as he approached Cech in the Chelsea goal.