Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand (left) and AS Roma's Mirko Vucinic of Montenegro jump for the ball during their Champions League quarter-final, second-leg match at Old Trafford yesterday. - AP

LONDON (AP):

MANCHESTER UNITED became the third English team to reach the Champions League semi-finals yesterday, and the two-time champions will face FC Barcelona in the next round.

United advanced by beating AS Roma 1-0 and 3-0 on aggregate, with Carlos Tevez scoring the only goal with a diving header in the 70th minute. The win for United was a Champions League record 11th consecutive at home.

"If we've got a full squad we've got a chance. Somebody has got to lose," United manager Alex Ferguson said of the semi-finals. "You have opportunities in life when you've got something special and we have something special and we want to go there and show that. We have to go there and be positive."

Barcelona got their goal in the 43rd from Yaya Toure in a 1-0 win over Schalke that gave the Spanish team a 2-0 aggregate win.

Barcelona and Manchester United are the only unbeaten teams left in the Champions League. Chelsea, the only club remaining to have never won the European Cup, and Liverpool meet in the other semi-final series for the third time in four years.

Missed penalty

Tevez scored with a diving header off a cross from Owen Hargreaves, long after Daniele de Rossi missed a penalty for the Italian team in the 30th.

Last April, United routed Roma 7-1 and advanced to the semi-finals 8-3 on aggregate, but then lost to eventual champions AC Milan.

"We put in a good game and a good performance," Roma coach Luciano Spalletti said. "We had to take one or two risks. It was important to exploit chances when we actually created them, but didn't capitalise on them. If we had, it would have changed the face of the game."

Barcelona, who won the Cham-pions League two years ago but were ousted by Liverpool in the second round last season, host Manchester United on April 23. The return leg six, is set for April 29.

Barcelona took the lead when Bojan Krkic's cross was deflected up and headed around before falling to Toure in the box.

Ronaldinho and Deco, two players who have missed lengthy periods to injury, were not in the lineup.

"This team deserves a lot of credit for what it's done. It's fought to the end to achieve this result," Barcelona president Joan Laporta said. "It's a moment to savour."

Schalke coach Mirko Slomka said his team didn't play to its potential.

"We played 90 very good minutes out of the 180 against Barcelona and the two times we let our guard down they took advantage," Slomka said.