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  • Bluenose
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Well done Man Utd... A team I love to see do well in the Champions League and my other just happens to be Chelsea (well... gorra pick someone as we'll never get in there) Rolling Eyes


I really fancy a Man Utd V Chelsea for sure now and for the sake of football. Cool

 
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Eto'o was shockingly poor. Deco was the worst player on the pitch. Don't think he completed a pass. Glad United went through because I would have fancied Liverpool or Chelsea to beat Barca if they had progressed. I couldn't bear 'We won it 6 tiiiimes' or the Nazi's winning so I'll be backing United

 
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Well done Man Utd ......THE END .

 
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I bet that hurt didn't it Con Wink


I take it back for what I've been saying about the defense. When needed they stepped up and performed brilliantly. Tevez was a little work horse. And Scholes goal , flipping brilliant. A fine team performance , now bring on the final. I do feel that Nani needs to start playing for the team instead of himself sometimes.

Although supporting this team should come with a health warning Laughing

 
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Why didn't Ronaldo play again?

 
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G_Man wrote:
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Man Utd were poor first leg but did what needed to be done tonight.

Barca were a joke for both legs. All that possesion and not a single great attempt on goal nevermind an actualy goal.


Barça didn't play great games (isn't a surprise because if you had seen some Barça games this season played worse), but if Barça were a joke, what were United? The team that United fans say that play the best football in the world, were 75% of the time defending and won thanks to a Zambrotta's mistake....


Man United did the job and thats that. Should of had a penalty when Milto "spelling wrong" decided to pretty much elbow Ronaldo when was a corner. Barcelona like already said had plenty possesion but did nothing with it. Messi did well and Toure did well also. Nobody else for Barcelona never really stood out. Brown i thought was pretty solid for Man United. Not alot of people like Brown but put on a good performance tonite.
Tevez for me was man of the match. Ran his heart out just kept on running and chasing dead balls. Thought Park did well also.


The penalty that could be was the fault by Scholes to Messi in the minute 1 or 2 that could be in the line of the penalty area.

 
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Wes Brown was man of the match for me. Absolutley solid. Would start every week at centre half if United didnt have 2 World Class defenders in there....greedy basturds

 
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Congratulations Manchester United.

Barca, for all their beautiful intricate passing, hardly created any real clear cut chances. I'd argue that Roma created far more than Barca did in their two legs against United.

Lionel Messi. AMAZING. Didn't deserve to be on the losing side. He was at the heart of all Barca's best attacking moments, and every time he touched the ball Old Trafford held its breath. Loved the way he left Scholes for dead on the touchline and when he nutmegged Ronaldo at the end. Its a shame his teammates cannot support his brilliance. For me, he's the best player I've seen since Zizou. As Samuel Eto'o said, he really does dribble like a Playstation player, makes it look incredibly easy.

United's best defender...Brown? Rio? Evra? Nah. Carlos Tevez. It was a excellent defensive display from Utd, very much in the Liverpool mould. But winning is that matters and fair play to them they won.

 
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I bet that hurt didn't it Con Wink




yes it sure does ..... Sad now i dont know who i want to win the trophy .... Wink

 
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Congats Man U, it is a great acheivement to knock Barcelona out and to do it by keeping probably the best attacking team in the world goalless over two legs is outstanding!

Unfortunately I didnt get to see or tape the second leg of this as work is insane at the moment but hopefully will catch a replay some time.

Roll on tomorrow, I expect Chelsea to do the business myself but we'll see Smile

 
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Even if Manchester deserved to go to the final, i find them less impressive yesterday than in their matchs against Lyon. I think the players don't want to have a card and miss the final.

 
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Not so much a poor Barca performance as an excellent counter performance from United, splendid defensively and potent in attack. Can't really ask for much more than that!

The work-rate of the players tonight was just immense, it carried us through, Tevez in particular made me moist between the legs...

Aaaaaah, still hasn't sunk in yet! Champions League Final in 3 weeks! Get in Smile Smile

Also I thought Ronaldo was much more mature tonight and played for the team so after crucifying him last week I really have to commend him tonight. If he played like that every game and found the right balance then I'd probably fall in love with him Laughing

YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!

I'll give me feelings tomorrow, I'm just too buzzed right now.


I think the same about Ronaldo.

 
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Park's stock must be sky rocketing. Hopefully he gets more action cause he's looking like the player who was so good for PSV.


When he played for PSV he was with Lee the player of Tottenham, they play well together.

 
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Good match again, though its not good to see Barca playing so beautifully and not scoring, never mind not winning. Messi was taking 6 people on at a time, shame he couldnt take on 7 and score a goal. Very Happy
Ronaldo for world player of the year? Long way to beat Messi!

 
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Good match again, though its not good to see Barca playing so beautifully and not scoring, never mind not winning. Messi was taking 6 people on at a time, shame he couldnt take on 7 and score a goal. Very Happy
Ronaldo for world player of the year? Long way to beat Messi!


Messi was by far better than Ronaldo, but one thing he lacked was finding the back of the net. He passed the ball too much to Eto'o who doesn't have the quality he once had 2 years ago. Kaka won the Ballon 'dOr last year because of his great performance & goal-scoring ability.

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Great performance from the whole team. Brown was immense at the back, Ive always been a fan of him but he really was great last night. Rio on the other hand I havent been a huge fan of in the past but hes finally showing his potential recently and put in another great display at the back. Evra did nothing wrong either, Hargreaves made a mistake in the first half when he let Iniesta through & they nearly scored but considering hes a midfielder he did well overall.

In midfield, Carrick was average enough, he doesnt have the technique to match Xavi, Toure & Iniesta and was again exposed. Scholes was great as usual, constantly winning the ball back and controlling the tempo of the match and then obviously he got that goal as well. Its great to see him finally get the chance to play in a final. Park and Ronaldo were ok, Park worked really hard all night and put in some good crosses while Ronaldo despite not doing much at least played for the team unlike last week. Nani on the other hand was [beep!] to be honest, his final ball was terrible and he kept choosing the wrong option, to be fair to him he did work hard though.

Up front then theres Tevez obviously, man of the match along with Brown in my opinion. It seems impossible to run as much as he does, he just never stops for the full 90 minutes, he was all over the pitch closing down, won the ball plenty of times and was probably the best player going forward as well.

The crowd was great as well, I havent seen an atmosphere like that at Old Trafford since the 90's!


In the final Id prefer Liverpool just for the occasion more than anything, it'd be an amazing night Man Utd v Liverpool in the Champions League final. Annoyed the games on a Wednesday though, Im sure I heard they were switching in to a Saturday recently?

 
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Bluenose wrote:
Well done Man Utd... A team I love to see do well in the Champions League and my other just happens to be Chelsea (well... gorra pick someone as we'll never get in there) Rolling Eyes


I really fancy a Man Utd V Chelsea for sure now and for the sake of football. Cool


Haha, that was a joke right?


I don't think the FA would find it funny somehow, do you?

 
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what a tense match.. barcelona nearly outplayed us in every single aspect.. from the stats given.. it could've been a luck for us to go through.. their midfield's scary and i always held my breath each time messi had the ball.. such a pity that he's got to be in the losing team.. this guy's really amazing.. T.T

and scholesy's simply superb.. never imagined that he'd the one to earn us the ticket to moscow with that fantastic kick which ended up as a goal.. and park also gave me a very good impression.. in a nutshell.. everyone's been working hard.. congratulations.. XD

 
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Both teams had some chances but Barça didn't score Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Big error by Zambrotta and Eto'o didn't play well.

Come on Liverpool or Chelsea!!!


i told you that we'd win it hard Razz

putrum6 wrote:
fakeplastictrees wrote:
Man Utd were poor first leg but did what needed to be done tonight.

Barca were a joke for both legs. All that possesion and not a single great attempt on goal nevermind an actualy goal.


Barça didn't play great games (isn't a surprise because if you had seen some Barça games this season played worse), but if Barça were a joke, what were United? The team that United fans say that play the best football in the world, were 75% of the time defending and won thanks to a Zambrotta's mistake....


Shocked

we've been playing defensive enough in the last couple of matches.. and with a weird formation too..

as a matter of fact.. scholesy wasn't in a real good position to strike either.. but he's somehow confident to shoot it out and scored.. so yeah.. don't put all the blame on zambrotta..

 
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I do feel that Nani needs to start playing for the team instead of himself sometimes.

Although supporting this team should come with a health warning Laughing


yeah.. sometimes he isn't in the best position to shoot.. Sad

Laughing

putrum6 wrote:
G_Man wrote:
putrum6 wrote:
fakeplastictrees wrote:
Man Utd were poor first leg but did what needed to be done tonight.

Barca were a joke for both legs. All that possesion and not a single great attempt on goal nevermind an actualy goal.


Barça didn't play great games (isn't a surprise because if you had seen some Barça games this season played worse), but if Barça were a joke, what were United? The team that United fans say that play the best football in the world, were 75% of the time defending and won thanks to a Zambrotta's mistake....


Man United did the job and thats that. Should of had a penalty when Milto "spelling wrong" decided to pretty much elbow Ronaldo when was a corner. Barcelona like already said had plenty possesion but did nothing with it. Messi did well and Toure did well also. Nobody else for Barcelona never really stood out. Brown i thought was pretty solid for Man United. Not alot of people like Brown but put on a good performance tonite.
Tevez for me was man of the match. Ran his heart out just kept on running and chasing dead balls. Thought Park did well also.


The penalty that could be was the fault by Scholes to Messi in the minute 1 or 2 that could be in the line of the penalty area.


but it's not a pk.. just an obvious fk Smile

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