Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney had no problem with the defensive role he was asked to play in Wednesday night's 0-0 draw at Barcelona.

Rooney said: "We knew they have got good attacking players and their full-backs bomb forward so the manager asked me to do a job watching the full-backs and I was happy to do that."

The England ace continued: "I thought defensively we played very well. We maybe never had as many opportunities as we could have had going forward but we knew we had to defend well and we did that.

"We've got a great record at Old Trafford and we are confident of beating anyone there. It will be a different game at Old Trafford, we'll attack more and we'll try to win the game as we know we can do.

"Barcelona are a great passing team, especially at home - so we knew we had to defend well and I think we did that. It's a good result for us.

"It's still close and it can still go either way, we know that. But I've seen teams come to Barcelona and get beat 3-0 or 4-0 so I think 0-0 is a good result."