The Red Devils hold a slight advantage going into the semi-final second leg at the San Siro thanks to Wayne Rooney's injury-time winner which secured a 3-2 victory at Old Trafford last week.

However, the 32-year-old does not expect the game to be straightforward although he is looking to improve on the outcome of the teams' previous Champions League meeting in Italy when the hosts won 1-0 to secure a 2-0 aggregate victory in 2005.

Scholes said: "We never seem to do things the easy way, so there is probably more excitement to come.

"The goal we scored in the last minute of the first game certainly gave us a boost and I suppose there is a possibility it might disheartened Milan a little bit.

"I can't really see that happening though. It is going to be a very tough game. I just hope we can do a bit better than we did last time ."

And, while a repeat of the 1-0 defeat United suffered on that occasion would see Milan through, Scholes is hopeful of a more positive outcome.

"It will help having been there before,'' he said.

"We know what we are facing.

"What happened a couple of years ago was a big disappointment. But the likes of (Cristiano) Ronaldo and Rooney are a couple of years older now.''

Neither will the prospect of getting a yellow card which would again rule him out of a potential final affect Scholes' approach.

Just like Roy Keane, Scholes was in the Nou Camp stands on the night United became champions of Europe in such thrilling fashion against Bayern Munich in 1999, a legacy of a needless booking picked up for dissent in the semi-final win over Juventus.

Eight years on and Scholes will head to Italy once again walking a disciplinary tightrope with Ronaldo and Gabriel Heinze in the same position.

But, while it would be fair to wonder whether that duo's mindset might be affected by potentially missing out on the biggest game of their lives, there are no such fears over Scholes.

"I won't let the bookings situation bother me,'' he said.

"It is just another game and another chance to get to a Champions League final.''

One of the game's most straightforward individuals, Scholes assesses the situation confronting him with a refreshing lack of sentimentality.

"I don't think of it being more important to get through because of what happened to me last time,'' he said.

"It is a major tournament, one that every team in Europe wants to be involved in.

"It still feels the same as the semi-final was in 1999. We all want to get there and we all want to win it if we do.''