A decade after facing Man United, Paul Ifill will get shot at redemption when he takes to field Paul Ifill wants redemption from losing the 2004 FA Cup final to Manchester United. PAUL Ifill will get a shot at redemption when he takes to the field against Manchester United on Saturday night, nearly a decade after his first encounter with the English giants. The Wellington Phoenix forward is part of the A-League All Stars team to take on the Premier League champions at ANZ Stadium. Ifill, 33, spent seven years at Millwall and in 2004 played against the Red Devils in the FA Cup final. Christiano Ronaldo opened the scoring, Ruud van Nistelrooy added two more and Millwall lost the game 3-0. Ifill remembers "chasing the ball a lot" that day, but he never thought he'd get another chance to play against them. "A club of that calibre are always expected to beat whoever they play," Ifill said. It was a tough day, but some great memories. I've still got the shirt up at my mum's house in the front room and hopefully I'll get another one this time. I think these opportunities only come about every now and then and it's important that you take in everything that it can offer. We're going to play against United at the weekend, which is something I'll tell the grandkids about. Second time for me so I'm one of the lucky ones. But moving this side of the world I didn't think that I'd have a chance to be playing against United nine years on from the first time, so I'm pretty pleased. Ifill is the only Phoenix player in the All Stars team and says it feel like "the first day of school." He's enjoying the experience, but can't wait to come up against Ryan Giggs, a player he's looked up to throughout his career. "To be doing what he's doing at his age still in the Premier League, year in year out, is remarkable," Ifill said. And as a fellow winger I know how tough that must be playing at that level, so you have to look up to people like that and how he conducts himself on the pitch is excellent. United lost their first tour match to a Thai All Stars team and the A-League players are expecting a backlash from that defeat. But Ifill says training under Ange Postecoglou has been great and they're determined to put on a good show. "We've only got a week to learn about each other first of all and try and get some understanding, but the manager has done a good job with that so far and hopefully we'll put in a good performance at the weekend and it will be a decent game," he said. Everything's been good and it's nice playing with good players. The coach has been great and it's just a good atmosphere at the moment. You've got (Robin) van Persie and (Rio) Ferdinand and we've already talked about Giggs and when you've got people like that out there it's always going to be tough. And even the ones you don't mention are good players, to be at a club like that you have to be, so it's going to be a real test for us.