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Re: Barcelona v Man Utd

soccerlike — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:08:58 -0000

Watch a match between 2 giant.. :-w:-w

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cory — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:03:32 -0000

the problem with ronaldo is hes out of position. he really isnt a forward. But when we played defensive last game, and then this game with rooney out, hes being played as top striker. hes not ruud, even if he poaches like him. If you watch, Ronaldo is most deadly on the counter when hes the ball bringer when hes got rooney or tevez or both with him. messi was combining with his players like eto'o, but if ronaldo is the front man, what the heck is he supposed to do? well, not much. try and dribble through 4-5 defenders and score. that isnt going to happen against the big teams. no support+not much service= crappier ronaldo.

If you watch a few occasions when hes got players with him, like the 1-2 with tevez, and the low ball in to nani, and park, etc... he does just as good as messi. but when united play the counterattack, hes got no support. messi takes advantage of the slower build up from barcelona to have players with him, so he doesnt have to do half the work ronaldo does to do something more productive. hes can use them as distraction, as passes for a final ball, to work with for a 1-2, etc... he looks good while he does it. ronaldo has really no option except to dribble at 4 defenders, and neither messi nor ronaldo were able to do that. esp playing against top class players like ferdinand, puyol, etc...

and it also helps when trying to look good when your team has more possession, if fewer chances. more service= more time to show your stuff.

so, again, there really isnt much you can honestly take from this performance between ronaldo and messi.

you can however take that united are team who can shut down any offense, how long has it been in europe since we've been scored on? someone said 360 min. thats amazing. both barca games, roma, lyon at home, all the way back to lyon away was the last time anyone got a goal on us.

FOLLOW FOLLOW FOLLOW UNITED ARE GOING TO MOSCOW!!!!!!

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Noodles for ManUtd — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:08:57 -0000

U haters, i guess your teams are kicked out already. One penalty miss is nothing, it's not final yet, it's good that he did this mistake now, he will not repeat it in final. You know how many great players missed penalty so you losers just shut your mouse, just watch his goals, of course what you were waiting from this match in Camp Nou, domination of Manchester, you stupid pumpkins:))) I laugh on you all, you don't have any arguement you are just trash talkers. Manchester will play in Final!!!!!!!

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Scourfest — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:49:03 -0000

This game was full of surprized!. I was expecting Man U to dominate and Barca to struggle. Turned out to be completely the opposite. Still, a very boring game, I like seeing Messi and Eto'o pass the ball around...but only so much, they didn't get a lo out of it. Man U's inability to hold on to the ball longer than 10 seconds was borderline **** play. It's not like they tried to clear it, you could see their attempts to counterattack that would fail miserably. Ronaldo got manhandled, i think Barca's plan of defense was to kill him everytime he touched the ball, the ref shoulda protected him more but in barca's defense - it did work.

This game leaves us with more questions than answers. The return leg will feature 90 minutes of Messi (which was the sharpest barca player in the first leg). He and Eto'o will be well rested. I'm not sure that Man U will go with the same...weird formation they did in the first leg but its safe to say they will be looking to control and attack more which will mean 1 of 2 things. 1 - They will establish control of the ball and press on to score. 2 - This will leave them spread out and give barca the space and time they lacked last game to produce their own chances. In essence, it should be a wide open game and I hope to see a multi-goal game.

Man U has the adventage of playing home. Barca has the adventage of scoring away goals and their confidence boost from first leg. Interesting, no doub.

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simon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:49:50 -0000

ronaldo wouldn't have done amazing if he got the pentaly.=d>he got furstarted.its hard doing good if you just missed a pen in big stage semi final.he confundicne. and also, messi didnt **** ! all he did was do a few ttricks and pass bit.

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JamieLee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:16:26 -0000

I really enjoyed the Ronaldo interview at the end. I'd never heard him speak before. I quite liked him, he didn't sound likea footballer, some sort of dictator perhaps.

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cory — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:49 -0000

lets not forget that Ronaldo also had to perform the whole game on the back of a PK miss, which can really hurt a person's confidence.

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cory — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:17:46 -0000

I rewatched the game and took note of the things that Messi and Ronaldo did. wrote them down.

Discounting neutral things (simple passes), Good things are through balls that reach the target, good runs, great incisive passes, etc... Bad things are losing the ball needlessly, missing PKs, hitting the wall on FKs.

Im only going to count the ones when both players are on the field.

Messi did 5 good things, and 8 times he did bad things. Actually, whenever Messi tried to make a penetrative run, he lost the ball more often than not.

Ronaldo did 7 good things, and 6 bad things. 2 of those bad things were hitting the wall on a FK, and 1 was the PK. The majority of the time Ronaldo got the ball, he made something good happen. There were quite a few times hed break through the defense on his own before being fouled professionally to stop him from scoring.

I have to say after rewatching the game that Ronaldo did quite a lot. Messi really did not do much. I know Barca fans will say that Messi was getting off injury, but then again Ronaldo had no support 95% of the time, and his team had less possession and he had less service. Besides if Messi is supposedly the greatest player ever and his so far above Ronaldo then youd think hed be able to play well in this game at home with 90000 people behind him esp since hes such a great big game player as he showed on wednesday. And besides, everyone judged Ronaldo on his bad performance against Milan last year when he was playing tired and injured with a tired and injured team against a well rested team with few injuries and who were only really fighting in 1 competition.

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Northstander — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:05:25 -0000

[quote comment="16515"]Ronaldo is a brilliant player and it shouldn't matter if he missed a penalty. Ronaldo and rooney have made the perfect partnership up front and so have Rio and vidic. He will be awarded;
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
TOP GOAL SCORER OF PREMIERSHIP
TOP GOAL SCORER IN CHAMPS LEAGUE

and could also be lifting the premier league title and also the champions league.[/quote]

tHE ONLY THING THOSE MUGS WILL BE LIFTING IS EACH OHERS SHIRTS8-|

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man u till i die — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:34:53 -0000

Ronaldo is a brilliant player and it shouldn't matter if he missed a penalty. Ronaldo and rooney have made the perfect partnership up front and so have Rio and vidic. He will be awarded;
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
TOP GOAL SCORER OF PREMIERSHIP
TOP GOAL SCORER IN CHAMPS LEAGUE

and could also be lifting the premier league title and also the champions league.

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Vin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:47:53 -0000

well i am very sad as barca couldnt take the win in their home, but i hope ronaldinho will get on the pitch in the second leg
barca 4 life

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Jawbreaker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:46:07 -0000

SO WHAT ----- Ronaldo missed! ------ Still the best in the Premiership bwahahahahahahahahahahahah

Screw all of you jealous haterszzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!

Teeheeehehehehehe:d

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Red Devil — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:56:08 -0000

It's obvious Barcelona kept the ball very well, and we got pushed to defend very deep, sometimes too deep to my liking.

I've travelled to Valencia, Münich, Madrid, Rome over the past Champions League campaigns and Sir.alex philosophy over the past few years has been this way in the knockout stages.

Going all rally pushing forward at the Noucamp would - in fareness to the way Barca plays at home - have been pure stupidity.

Barcelona had 1 real chance in the game inside the box with Etoo but that's about it. The rest were all long range efforts hardly testing VDS, I guess the best attempt was the one from Thierry Henry, everything else VDS had covered with ease.

It will be a completely different game next week. Just remember the return leg last year against Roma...

United can produce a game like that again, and I'm confident we can win it, but at this level 10-15 minutes of bad football and you're out.

It's as simple as that.

We got a good result to take into the game next week and I'm very positive. Score first and we'll go through, get one goal against us and it will obviously be very hard.

If we beat Barcelona and go on and win the final the hardest game of the two will probably be looked back to be the Barcelona one.

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manutdblogger — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:06:54 -0000

yeah alright u lot - maybe time to move on to the small matter of United versus the Rentboys at the Bridge....

Can't see United playing catenaccio-style there - Wazza will be relieved. I don't think I've ever seen him look as miserable as he did last night having to play that defensive flank role.

I fancy him to score on Saturday...

Manutdblogger

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nichol — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:06:25 -0000

Re: Barcelona v Man Utd

nichol — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:05:41 -0000

Just to be clear man u's players are great but man u just sucks ****

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nichol — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:04:06 -0000

[quote comment="16495"]I have seen some professional performance specially in away European games by United but this one was quite boring. When I saw the line up at first, I thought we were going for a win but then after like 5 mins, I couldn't even make out Rooney and Park's positions.

Given the experience and the attacking abilities that Barca possess, may be 0 - 0 isn't a bad result after all. We could have played the beautiful game as we usually do and might have lost in a bigger margin. Look at the bright side, we are left to play 90 mins and that is going to at home. I know that most of us are not used to seeing our team out played like that. I sure didn't expect it against Barca. They have been struggling in their league for a while. If you have noticed the back 4 were very shaky. But again, United have been very poor away in Europe for a while. There were years that we didn't even make it through the group stage. So I guess Sir Alex is convinced to play defensive football to get the result needed and move forward.

Frankly, I understand what he is trying to achieve but I was still disappointed by our performance.I was very nervous throught the game. In my mind,the question was, when they would score not whether they would or not.I think we some how gave Barca a Psychological boost ahead of the return leg. I know the result isn't too bad but if Barca could score, you know the uphill we might face. Just because we are playing at home, It doesn't mean the goals will start flowing but again, I am confident that we will get a win. I don't know how but I believe we have what it takes to win.

Ronaldo did very well as lone striker. I know he missed a penalty but that happens sometimes. All of the best players in the world that came before him had missed crucial penalties including in the world cup final games. It was just in the first mins where nobody was settled and sometimes luck is important and it wasn't in his side yesterday. Aside that though, he performed very well.

Rooney and Park struggled a lot. Scholsy, Evra, Rio, Harg and Van De did quite well. I think so did Brown.

Somethings to take from this is that, If we decided to play defensive football, it shows that we can get results even if that is not our style of play. I believe Vida's illness somewhat forced us to sit back and not be adventures

Although Barca had the majority of the possession, they were wasteful in front of goals. I didn't notice that many attempts which troubled Van D.

In conclusion, We didn't play well and the result might not be the best but we set up ourselves fairly to the return leg. I believe we have the advantage progressing.

United for life baby![/quote]
spoken like a true man utd freak...sorry fan...defending "your" team all the way...
they'll have to defend alot more next meeting...
AGAIN to ALL YOU man u fans......when your man u ship is sinking .......STAY ON IT!

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micojoia — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:02:00 -0000

MY GOD THERE IS MORE POEPLE WITH HATE COMMENTS ON THIS VIDEO THAN IN FAVOUR. IT GOES TO SHOW HOW GOOD RONALDO IS. EVERYONE IS WAITING TO SEE HIM FAIL, EVEN MAN U FANS. I BET MAN U MANAGEMENT IS GETTING A KICK OUT OF THIS ONE GETTING EVERYONE'S EXPECTATIONS REALLY HIGH SO THEY CAN GUARANTEE A EARLY FULL STADIUM ON FOR THE SECOND LEG. LOL

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nichol — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:57:31 -0000

[quote comment="16485"][quote comment="16482"]Perfect tactics, Man United shows great ability to do what is needed. You can't attack full throttle with 4-4-2 away to Barcelona, because if u make one mistake they will punish you. But during the hole game, they produce one good chance when Etoo was played through, other than that there were easy saved shots from outside the box. United probably had the best chance of the game with Carricks turn on the left side of the box, if he plays it in its a goal, unfortunately he didnt look up..

Barca passed the ball around and got nowhere for 90 minutes. Ronaldo was covered by 2-3 Barca players all game and I agree United was defending deeper than needed some periods of the game.

The 2:nd clear penalty is then one one with Ronaldo on the right side of the penalty box being tripped thigh high with the defenders both legs wrapped around him rugby style.... but you never get two penalties in a CL semifinal, no matter how clear they are, never happens...

Ronaldo missed a penalty, so what?! It happens to all great players once in a while. Top striker in the premiership AND the champions league this season, and thats from midfield. He also has set up a number of goals for teammates... He will finish Barca off if he gets one or two chances in the return leg, be sure of that.

United - Barcelona should have been the final, because it's the two best teams in europe this season easily. Chelsea and Liverpool is no comparison this season...[/quote]

RedDevil - good to know that some ppl actually talk some sense on these pages!

You're right - United v Barca as a ONE OFF - i.e. the final, would have been the perfect match for all concerned, including the neutrals.

Worst case scenario is meeting the scousers in the final - apart from a few good fights around Moscow...hehe

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you sorry jerks should be commentators but not on any Manutd games as it would be biased.......Statistics freaks...perfect tactics my ****.. Man utd got played all over, unfortunately the players didn't capitalize (man u and Barca both) it's good to see loyal fans.....lacking common sense and good judgement but loyal all the same.....remember when your man u ship is sinking ............STAY ON IT!

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Fan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:55:38 -0000

i just hoped the ref isn't the same ref as the 1st leg's ref. He sucked and made lots of wrong calls during the game.

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Mulugeta — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:01:29 -0000

I have seen some professional performance specially in away European games by United but this one was quite boring. When I saw the line up at first, I thought we were going for a win but then after like 5 mins, I couldn't even make out Rooney and Park's positions.

Given the experience and the attacking abilities that Barca possess, may be 0 - 0 isn't a bad result after all. We could have played the beautiful game as we usually do and might have lost in a bigger margin. Look at the bright side, we are left to play 90 mins and that is going to at home. I know that most of us are not used to seeing our team out played like that. I sure didn't expect it against Barca. They have been struggling in their league for a while. If you have noticed the back 4 were very shaky. But again, United have been very poor away in Europe for a while. There were years that we didn't even make it through the group stage. So I guess Sir Alex is convinced to play defensive football to get the result needed and move forward.

Frankly, I understand what he is trying to achieve but I was still disappointed by our performance.I was very nervous throught the game. In my mind,the question was, when they would score not whether they would or not.I think we some how gave Barca a Psychological boost ahead of the return leg. I know the result isn't too bad but if Barca could score, you know the uphill we might face. Just because we are playing at home, It doesn't mean the goals will start flowing but again, I am confident that we will get a win. I don't know how but I believe we have what it takes to win.

Ronaldo did very well as lone striker. I know he missed a penalty but that happens sometimes. All of the best players in the world that came before him had missed crucial penalties including in the world cup final games. It was just in the first mins where nobody was settled and sometimes luck is important and it wasn't in his side yesterday. Aside that though, he performed very well.

Rooney and Park struggled a lot. Scholsy, Evra, Rio, Harg and Van De did quite well. I think so did Brown.

Somethings to take from this is that, If we decided to play defensive football, it shows that we can get results even if that is not our style of play. I believe Vida's illness somewhat forced us to sit back and not be adventures

Although Barca had the majority of the possession, they were wasteful in front of goals. I didn't notice that many attempts which troubled Van D.

In conclusion, We didn't play well and the result might not be the best but we set up ourselves fairly to the return leg. I believe we have the advantage progressing.

United for life baby!

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kiko — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:38:39 -0000

Quiet a shocking result considering all the headlines of how dominant EPL teams are in general. Although Barcelona didn't win they defintely showed that they are capable of taking the game too Man Utd., honestly this is the 1st I have seen all Man Utd. with such little possesion. If I had to pick a winner I would say Barcelona had a moral victory and the boost will help them in England where both teams will go "all in". Had a fit Ronaldinho been there playing at his peak I do believe they could have got the win no doubt.

If Barcacelona continues where they left off, keeping the ball away from Man Utd. then the numbers says they may stale mate them at worst else they should push on thru. I've always said the best defense is possesion, possesion , possesion.

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brooklynite — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:57:33 -0000

we really needed Giggs, Anderson, and Vidic out there...Carrick and especially park were not playing well at all. Hopefully we can defeat chelsea and not have to worry about resting players for premier league play on tuesday.....great Job Ronaldo, Ferdinand, Evra, and tevez

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1234567890 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:40:52 -0000

I never said anything about location or knowledge of the team. It's about loyalty and sticking with your team through the good and the bad. I believe that there is a huge segment of Man Utd. supporters who change clubs more often than people dye their hair, and they do it because they want to be on the winning side. I don't have a problem with real United supporters; it's those who would jump ship at the first sign of trouble who irritate me.

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manutdblogger — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:05:41 -0000

Red Devil - you're right again, pal.

The game is now global and globally commercialized - it is because of that, that we're able to buy the best players, pay the highest wages and ultimately PERPETUATE United's fine, 'local' tradition. Ppl say money corrupts the game - it's not as black and white as that.

Of course we'd love to see 11 local lads out there. Of course we'd love the Glazers to disappear, but we have to get real.

As far as foreign fans or glory hunters are concerned, I say this as a lifelong local fan:

It doesn't matter whether you are from Salford or Shanghai or wherever - as long as you understand the United philosophy and know your United history, every fan is welcome. The more the merrier.

Manutdblogger

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