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Rio x Owen: The best players we faced in Europe

The TNT Sports pundits sat down with MUTV presenter Mark Sullivan to reflect on their distinguished European careers, picking out some of the standout memories, matches, goals and more.

Ferdinand and Hargreaves both lifted the Champions League trophy as Reds in 2008, while the latter did so with Bayern Munich as well, so it’s fair to say they are experts on the competition. When asked to name their toughest individual opponent, two giants of the game quickly came to their minds.

“I mean, there were so many amazing ones,” says Hargreaves. “I mean, my favourite was Zidane in a way.