Rooney Salutes Team Ethic

Himself a bastion of selflessness, Wayne Rooney put Wednesday's impressive win over Porto down to the Reds' collective toil, rather than any individual effort.

The England international striker shone as a makeshift right winger, lending equal amounts of support in attack and defence, and while Cristiano Ronaldo's thunderbolt was the difference on paper, it was that hard-working mentality which faciliated United's passage to the Champions League semi-finals.

"It was a good performance by the team," Rooney told MUTV. "We looked solid and never looked like conceding, and it was a wonderful goal from Cristiano to win us the game.

"We knew that if we defended well we'd get opportunities to score and I think Rio coming back was a big plus for us tonight. We were really solid and they didn't give us that many problems in front of goal."

Arsenal now await United in the last four, and Rooney admits the all-English tie presents a mouth-watering prospect.

"I'm looking forward to it," he said. "The only other English team we've played against in this competition was Chelsea, so it should be an exciting couple of games and hopefully we can overcome them."