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PRIOR to Wednesday’s night mouth-watering Champions League semi-final second leg, here’s our head-to-head guide.

MANCHESTER United head into their Champions League semi-final second leg against AC Milan 3-2 up after Wayne Rooney’s late winner at Old Trafford last week.

MANCHESTER United have been warned of a security scare ahead of tomorrow night’s Champions League semi-final with AC Milan.

MANCHESTER United can this week leap-frog Chelsea in the millionaire stakes. The Old Trafford coffers are already swelling with cash from their Champions League and FA Cup runs and a Premiership jackpot is already guaranteed.

DEFENSIVE duo Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand both flew out to Milan this morning, with Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson still to decide whether to name them in his Champions League semi-final line-up.

SIR Alex Ferguson has told United they must out-score AC Milan tomorrow to keep their Treble dream alive.

JOHN O’Shea insists there is no point focusing on Kaka too much in the San Siro - because then Manchester United might fall to one of AC Milan’s other star names.

SIR Alex Ferguson has promised that, win or lose in the San Siro, Manchester United will adhere to the club’s attacking principles.

UNITED were boosted for their Milan mission as defensive rocks Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic both flew to Italy with the Reds.

ARSENE Wenger has warned Manchester United getting knocked out of the Champions League could dent their Premiership hopes.

SIR Alex Ferguson has launched a furious attack on Jose Mourinho following the Chelsea manager’s latest outburst about Cristiano Ronaldo.

Sir Alex Ferguson has reminded Paul Scholes of his responsibility to try and avoid rash tackles in a bid to make the final

TeamTalk - Chris Eagles revealed scoring for Manchester United was “something I’ve wanted to do ever since I moved up from London at 13″.The Hemel Hempstead-born winger marked his first Premiership appearance for United by scoring the final goal in the amazing 4-2 victory at Everton on Saturday after coming on as an 86th-minute substitute.

Police need to get “match fit” for the policing of the FA Cup final, says the Met’s senior officers.

Team news ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final, second leg at the San Siro.

Paul Scholes says Iain Turner’s mistake paved the way for victory.

The title pendulum swung one way and then the other until Alex Ferguson knew that his dream was close to being realised

Keane and Bruce reach the Premiership

Inzaghi to take centre stage

Summerbee wants to lock United up.

Everton 2 United 4

John O’Shea loves being a United player

He has another go at Ronaldo

David Pleat: Everton should have played two strikers against Man Utd, as the midfield gamble did not pay off.

PAUL Scholes will not allow the heartbreaking prospect of missing a second Champions League final to affect his performance in Milan on Wednesday.

CHELSEA and Manchester United fans have been warned about their behaviour at the new Wembley Stadium.

BRAZIL playmaker Kaka has demanded AC Milan repeat their first-half showing at Old Trafford for the full 90 minutes when they meet United in the return leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday.

WHAT a difference a year makes in the magnificent and mad world of United.

FC UNITED pogo’d out of the North West Counties League to the strains of punk music and amid wild celebrations at Gigg Lane.

PAUL Scholes is hanging fire on the title celebrations but he says United’s amazing Goodison comeback has put the Champions-elect in upbeat mood for Milan and the derby.

FC UNITED pogo’d out of the North West Counties League to the strains of punk music and amid wild celebrations at Gigg Lane.

And happy to prove the press wrong.

Former loanster: “I was pleased to see Cristiano Ronaldo pick up the Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards in the English Premiership.”

Horrific prospect as Ferguson fancies a bit with Allardyce.

Scholes on a yellow before the Milan match even starts.

Maldini reported to be out but Gattuso should be fit. Meanwhile Ancelotti is confident.

Well, hopefully.

Oliver Holt from the Mirror gives his views.

Out until August apparently.

Leeds resign themselves to relegation to the 3rd division as knuckle-draggers excel themselves.

Title race turns around in half an hour.

The top two still have three league matches, but a vast goal difference means Ferguson’s team are six points clear

Manchester United will go to Milan on a goal-scoring high, thanks to a late-season surge by Wayne Rooney

The Brazilian says Milan paid for sitting back last week but vows that they will finish the job on Wednesday

Manchester United’s delighted manager seemed to revel in a crucial victory - and aped his great rival

Everton 2 Man United 4: Not for the first time, a comeback from Manchester United that bordered on stupefying

APRIL 28: Sir Alex Ferguson has warned Paul Scholes to avoid more Champions League heartbreak.

After a vintage European contest between Man-chester United and Milan last week was followed by what will be perceived as a more typically British one at Stamford Bridge the next night - shades of the Lord Mayor’s Show and what comes after it - there can be little doubt which second instalment the football world is looking forward to more. Liverpool’s manager Rafa Benitez predicted in these pages last Sunday of his team’s tie with Chelsea: “I don’t think you will see a lot of goals.” Sir Alex Ferguson has rarely been known to say the same about any game involving United over the past 20 years, and will not do so of the return leg against Milan, which the English side start with a 3-2 advantage.

The blue flag, at half-mast as Goodison Park mourned Alan Ball, was briefly flying high on Merseyside and in west London, only to be lowered again as Manchester United moved closer to regaining the Premiership title on a dramatic afternoon.

If Jose Mourinho really believes in conspiracy theories in English football, he could have a field day with this one. Manchester United, two-nil down, were thrown a lifeline by Everton’s stand-in goalkeeper, then gifted three further goals, one of them knocked into his own net by the former United hero Phil Neville. Combined with Chelsea’s second successive draw, it all means that United, with their vastly superior goal difference, need only four more points - at most - to become champions, even if they should lose at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday week.