~Sauron~:

Says who??
How many Barcelona players will get into the present United team?
Dani Alves, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi.
That is 4 players out of 11.

Moving on. . . . . .
Carrick, Park and Anderson will disrupt the flow in the Barca midfield.
Chelsea never allowed em to settle on the ball thus forcing elementary mistakes.
Xavi was poor, Keita was nowhere and only Iniesta showed signs of a world class player.
Messi? He was utter CRAP in both legs.

Emperoh:

Sauron
You don't get my point, our midfield is very versatile
Barca is more like two attacking midfielders (Iniesta and Xavi) and one defensive midfielder(Toure) to clean the mistakes
Fletcher, Anderson and Carrick can inter changbetween mid field and attack.
With Arsenal, Anderson was always supporting the attack, but the speed with he returns to help the defence is amazing.
Messi won't drift back, Xavi and Iniesta rarely does.

Messi was TERRIBLE last night. He has never really done well against English sides
I wonder what all the hype is about?
He was just not it yesterday!!

asha 80:

Go and watch the highlights of barcelona vs chelsea at stanford bridge 2005/2006.

That was because United had Scholes and Roy Keane missing in the midfield.
Beckham had to play as a central midfielder(that was how bad United were on the night).
With Beckham tucked in, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole lacked the service they normally enjoy with Beckham as a winger.

aieromon:

guys please,whats all this talk bout who's better between messi and CR7?messi had a bad night simply because he was properly manned.this is going to be the same when barca takes us on.on the other hand,covering CR7 is of really no much use because he has a knack for headers via set pieces and of course his bullet free kicks.

if "negative football" is what is needed to stop the attack of Barca,then so be it!there ain't no crime in doing it a second time and am very sure MU will convert any chance you give them unlike didier who had 2 great opportunities to bury these spanish fools over two legs.

CR7 has improved his game play over the past two months and i feel the World Footballer of the year will go to the kid who wins the UCL.Even Messi knows this so let's go there

eyonigger:


Exactly what I was gonna speculate. For heavens sake, once a particular player is being considered dangerous n whoz consistency in breaking down a defense is targeted, there is nothing much such player can do.

Messi was marked out by 4 player's, how the hell wud anyone want the boy to perform normally as he does. He is no machine. If CR7 is being manned well as the same, then you'll probably be seeing a lesser performance as to what is normally expected.

Overall, Messi was manned, but he laid that killer and heartbreaking pass that sunk Chelsea's dream into the final.

Some peeps need to be real, at least for once. Ori e o 4kasibe!! very correct. is it not better he does not try to overdo the thing while being marked by assasin looking chelsea defenders, any attempt to show too much skill may mean hearing a news like MESSI out for the season after chelsea game GOD FORBID!! the guy too must protect himself.

dayokanu:

If you knew your football you would know Bayern missed their best striker Giovani Elber and defensive stalwart Bixente Lizarazu.

We more than atoned for that 2 seasons later pumelling Scummies Home and away in knock out

Wes Brown not going to take part in season run-in.
Was kinda hoping he'd make it.Apparently he won't.
So sad

tkb417:

what happened again?

tkb417:

Wes out again

Wes has always been injury prone - last season was his swan song, he might never have a season like that again