Barcelona eager to banish ghosts of 1994

BARCELONA will wipe out one of their bitterest memories in European competition if they can knock AC Milan out of the Champions League when the teams meet in the second leg of their semi-final tonight.

Johan Cruyff's so-called "dream team", which won four consecutive league titles and the club's only European Cup in 1992, were crushed 4-0 by the Italians in the 1994 final, a humiliation that still rankles with Barca supporters.

Now the side that many believe could rival the achievements of the Cruyff era has the chance to become the first team since 1956 to knock the Italian giants out at the semi-final stage.