Evra: Barca still haunt me

Last updated : 15 September 2009 By editor
Evra said: "When I think about last season now I don't think about winning the Premier League or the Club World Cup or the Carling Cup. "All I think about is losing in Rome and that's made me very determined to do well this year and make up for that. "But that doesn't mean my focus is only on the Champions League - my ambition is for the team to do well, no matter what competition we're in. "I'm a winner - I like to win - so I still think about what happened in Rome. "Everybody says we did well last season and we won three trophies. "But when you lose the final in the manner we did - we didn't give a true account of ourselves - it's very frustrating. "We didn't show people the real Manchester United and we were very upset with ourselves. "We missed a big opportunity in Rome and that's a real shame. It killed all my dreams last year." Rio Ferdinand also still feels pain from May's final in Rome: "Having lost a Champions League final, I know what it feels like. It was sickening in Rome because we felt we were on the cusp of greatness, so to lose the way we did was really difficult," said Ferdinand on Sky Sports. "The worst thing about it was that we didn't even put up a fight. "We never got going. If we had scored in the first 10 minutes, I think we'd have gone on to win the game, but Barcelona got the first goal and it stunned us. "We never recovered after that and that was so disappointing."