Keane: We face our greatest challenge

MANCHESTER UNITED will face the biggest challenge of their footballing lives trying to rescue a Champions League semi-final place at Old Trafford in 13 days.

Skipper Roy Keane has no doubts the task of overhauling Real Madrid's 3-1 lead from the first leg of their Champions League tussle at the Bernabeu is much harder than the one famously completed four years ago when United battled back from two goals down to overcome Juventus in that extraordinary semi-final in Turin.

Keane's statement will find plenty of agreement from anyone who saw the Champions League holders' clinical destruction of the English hopefuls when the home side produced a level of performance few have ever had the privilege to witness.