Despite enduring a somewhat disappointing season domestically, the 2005/06 campaign was almost a very successful one for Arsenal.

Never before had the Gunners reached the Champions League final and yet, incredibly, they did just that following some shock results in the knockout stages.

It all started in the round of 16. Arsenal travelled to the Bernabeu to take on Real Madrid in the first leg and returned to north London with a 1-0 lead, thanks to Thierry Henry's famous solo goal.

A draw at Highbury in the second leg meant Arsene Wenger's men were in the quarter-finals, where they faced Juventus and beat them 2-0 on aggregate to progress.

Villarreal were their next opponents and, having not conceded a goal in the last 16 or the quarters, Arsenal once again kept two clean sheets to win 1-0 and reach the final.

However, the game against Barcelona started catastrophically. Jens Lehmann was shown red in the 18th minute for hauling down Samuel Eto'o, reducing Arsenal to 10 men for 70 minutes.

Sol Campbell rose highest from a free-kick to break the deadlock 20 minutes later but late goals from Eto'o and Julianno Belletti meant Barcelona won the Champions League.

Eleven years on from the final and Ronaldinho - who featured that day for Barcelona - has made a pretty incredible admission about the way it panned out.

According to the Brazilian, from the moment Arsenal went down to 10 men, the Catalonians took their foot off the gas knowing victory was inevitable.

And when Belletti struck the 80th-minute winner, Barcelona's players decided not to add to their lead so the Brazilian right-back could say he scored the winner.

"We never doubted we would win that match," said Ronaldinho, per the Mirror. "Even when we were losing, we knew they were one man down and that it would cost them.

"We just figured that we didn't need to rush, we just had to play our football.

"It could have been more than 2-1 - we kept it at that score so that Belletti could say he scored the decider! That was his only goal for Barcelona."

Touching, but extremely arrogant from Barcelona's players. Arsenal proved they could score a goal out of nothing through Campbell and shouldn't have been underestimated.

Luckily for Ronaldinho and co, they held on for the remaining 10 minutes to win their second Champions League title.