UEFA CL FINAL - Barcelona vs Manchester United - May 27
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Originally posted by youyayu:
i think that liverpooman is sore that they can't win in europe this season, and got fucking boot out by chelski!
and man utd are gona kick their ass in the tittle race.
so he is just a little girl crying in the closet!
so hoping man utd won't win cause he hope that no one will break liverpoo record
what a fag.
MAN UTD FOR THE WIN
i fucking hope ronaldo score a hand ball into the goal.
see what barcelona gona do
Wow. If ronaldo score a hand ball into the goal, messi will dive and get a penalty lor...
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Chelsea have to blame themselves for not qualify for finals. when barcelona was one man down, they should not have sub drogba and should instead partner anelka and drogba and attacked barcelona for the second goal to easy nerves. instead what did chelsea do? sub drogba and the rest is history. thats bad defending in the final min of play against 10 men. so thay cant blame, but themselves really
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Originally posted by marcteng:
Chelsea have to blame themselves for not qualify for finals.
when barcelona was one man down, they should not have sub drogba and should instead partner anelka and drogba and attacked barcelona for the second goal to easy nerves.
instead what did chelsea do? sub drogba and the rest is history. thats bad defending in the final min of play against 10 men. so thay cant blame, but themselves really
I tot the sub was becos Drogba was injured.. but instead we are treated to him in his flip-flops chasing after the ref with energy and passion he should have injected into his own game.. neverthless, I think to put this thing to a close, Chelsea got themselves to blame, Ref did not have a good night, some chelsea players going get spank by UEFA, essien scored a great goal, we won't see a repeat of Terry's banana slip.
Let's move on and focus on Finals.
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
Wow. If ronaldo score a hand ball into the goal, messi will dive and get a penalty lor...
well, a goal and a penalty is two different... a penalty still can be saved. Anyway,let's hope that the final is not marred by what you two desired cause then it will be such a disgrace and low..
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today just saw the replay of Chelsea n Barce......... I feel Barce deserve to win.... And the botak damn cock eye, nothing give red card!!!! So Barce still very tactical after 10 men left... ManU realli need more luck than last yr!!!
/pray more for ManU to win/
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3 games left.. need 1 win and 1 draw to confirm title. lesser if liverpool screws up, but don't think that will happen..
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Originally posted by skythewood:
3 games left.. need 1 win and 1 draw to confirm title. lesser if liverpool screws up, but don't think that will happen..
surprisingly, poo is really serving up a mini-comeback... quite surprised to see this late charge.. normally, they depleted by now...
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..swee
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saw the barca game vs Villarreal, their defence is quite suspect. so I hope MU can exploit that.. and now we got this news -> Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta looks set to miss the Champions League final after picking up a thigh injury.
hmm, hope SAF will be ruthless and tighten the screws and not relax.
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3 goals
either 2-1 or 1-2
dun tink will have after FT stuffs
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Barca looks tame when against Chelsea. I sure hope Barca can give Man U a good run for their money and not play badly, end up being called babies by Man U player.
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Park out to make amends
Winger not taking his Champions League final inclusion for granted
Park Ji-Sung has admitted that he is still wary of his involvement in the UEFA Champions League final against Barcelona despite assurances from manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
The 28-year-old's cautious approach is understandable after he was sensationally left out of the squad for the penalty shoot-out win over Chelsea in Moscow last year by manager Sir Alex Ferguson; a decision made even stranger after the winger had started both legs in the quarter and semi-finals.
But after scoring the opener in the second-leg at Emirates Stadium in this year's semi-final, Ferguson has all but guaranteed Park's place in the starting XI in Rome in two weeks' time.
Despite his manager hinting that the former PSV ace will not suffer a similar fate against Barcelona, Park admits that he isn't taking anything for granted.
"If I play in Rome it would be great because I didn't play last season. But you don't know. There are two weeks left yet," he told the Manchester Evening News.
"I must show on the pitch in that time that I deserve to be in the final. I have to keep my form up and show my ability on the pitch.
"I have heard and read in the media that the manager has said I should be okay for the Champions League final. He has told the press but he hasn't said anything to me.
"So I just will have to do my best in the meantime. I am not going to get excited yet.
"It was hard to take not being in the Moscow team. But all the players want to be in the big games. We all want to be in the Champions League final.
"But so many players have never even reached that stage of the tournament. Some great players have not even had the chance of getting there. But at least I had a chance."
Despite the pain he suffered in Moscow the South Korean always believed that he would get another shot at playing in the final, especially at a club like United.
"It was a big heartbreak but I believed I would get back again with Manchester United. I felt certain it would happen again soon so I comforted myself with that," he added.
"I am certainly at the right club to believe I could get back again.
"No European Cup winner has ever retained the Champions League and not many winners have actually got back to the final but I never lost faith that United could do it and I might have a chance again.
"I have never lost the belief that I would play in a Champions League final. I knew we could get there. Now we are back and I just hope it is different for me this time.
"But I won't believe anything until the night. Up until then I will still be proving myself on the pitch."
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Barcelona beat Athletic to lift 25th Copa del Rey
Three goals in a devastating nine-minute spell at the start of the second half saw Barcelona to a 4-1 win over Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final on Wednesday and the first of three possible titles.
Yaya Toure levelled for Barca in the first half before Lionel Messi, Bojan Krkic and Xavi struck after the break to give the club their 25th Copa del Rey.
The Catalans could wrap up the Primera Liga title this weekend and they face Manchester United in the Champions League final on May 27.
"Now we are reaping the rewards of all the hard work we have put in during the season," Barca midfielder Sergio Busquets told Spanish state television as the team celebrated on the pitch.
"I hope this weekend we can secure our second title."
Barca had an unfamiliar look in defence with reserve keeper Jose Manuel Pinto in goal and Yaya Toure at centre back again, and they were quickly exposed at a set piece.
Pinto had tipped a Javi Martinez shot round the post and Fran Yeste made it count. His whipped-in corner after nine minutes found Gaizka Toquero rising above two defenders to head in at the back post.
Athletic looked fresher, snapping at Barca all over the pitch, until Toure stepped up to level in spectacular fashion as he advanced out of defence.
The Ivory Coast midfielder went past three Bilbao players in the 31st minute, and from outside the area drilled a low shot inside the near post.
Gradually Barca asserted themselves and as they swarmed round the Bilbao area in the 55th minute it was Messi who struck, firing through a crowd of legs after Gorka Iraizoz could only parry Samuel Eto'o's shot.
Three minutes later, Bojan raced through on a break to score off the far post and with Bilbao reeling Xavi curled a superb freekick over the wall and in off the near post in the 64th.
Just before Xavi's goal the match was held up briefly after Barcelona defender Daniel Alves was hit on the head by a tin can thrown from the stands.
Alves was able to continue and television pictures showed police leading a fan away.
Athletic were a broken team after that, but earn a place in next season's Europa League with Barca's place in the Champions League assured for next year.
Barcelona has treble on their mind...
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Henry doing everything to be in Rome
Thierry Henry has insisted he is doing everything in his power to be involved in the Champions League final with Manchester United.
Henry opted against celebrating his team’s Copa del Rey victory on Wednesday in order to recover on time for the Rome final at Stadio Olimpico.
The Champions League is the only major title that the legendary striker is yet to claim.
The France international’s trophy room is full, as he has already won the World Cup, the European championship, the Confederation Cup, the Golden Boot, as well as the English and French league, the FA Cup and the Community Shield.
“The team are in an incredible form at the moment, it is impressive,” Henry told sport.es.
“If I am not celebrating it is because I want to be ready for Rome.”
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Chelsea lost because they believed an old man like ballack can actually defend.
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Barcelona has 3 defenders out. Alves and left back are suspended, and Marquez is injured. I feel that Man Utd should attack and Barcelona sure collapse. which team wont, if 3 of their defenders are out, especially when you have Ronaldo, Rooney or Berbatov or Tevez in attack. Imagine Man Utd 3 of its first team defenders are out, I wonder how are they going to cope? so based on this, I would rate Man Utd as favourites for the title.
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if MU plays like vs Gunners, MU will lose..
It is a different gunners, and it should warn MU that with a technical team, they can't lose the ball so much... luckily, gunners did not manage to find the net. but it seems "babies" want to get back @ Evra.
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and all Liverpool fans will turn from Wigan, to Gunners and now barca fans...
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ironically , Arsenal and Barcelona played almost the same style .
Penalty la ..... all the way for 120 minutes .
Then see who lucky !!!
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Messi says Barca can out-football United
Lionel Messi has stoked the fires ahead of the Champions League final with his assertion that Barcelona’s football is better than Manchester United’s.
Both Barca and United this weekend secured their respective domestic titles and now must turn their attentions to Rome on May 27 where they will look to be crowned the best in Europe.
Real Madrid’s Saturday night slip-up meant that Barca wrapped up the Spanish league title without playing and allowed Josep Guardiola to rest Messi and four other first-teamers for Sunday’s trip to Mallorca.
Sir Alex Ferguson is sure to follow a similar script when his side visit Hull on the last day of the domestic season as they prepare their attempts to become the first team in Champions League history to defend the trophy.
Ferguson has been receiving plaudits left, right and centre for the manner in which his full-to-the-brim squad has gone about yet another dominant season but Messi feels that it is Barca who strut their stuff more impressively.
"We are going to give everything to win the Champions League," said the Argentinian, "Manchester United have a great team with some great players but I think we just have that little bit more football.
"We have to take advantage of this moment because we don't know if it will ever present itself again. We have the chance to pass into the history books of a club as great as Barcelona and we are going to do just that."
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Henry gunning for Rome final
Barcelona’s medical staff have announced that Thierry Henry could be fit for the Champions League final with Manchester United.
The French striker remains a doubt for the Rome final that is due to be played on May 27 in the Eternal City after damaging his knee ligament during the Classico with Real Madrid.
But the Arsenal legend is recovering quickly and could feature in the glamorous European clash according to club medics.
Henry can run again and is expected to return to full training by the end of the week, it has been claimed.
The forward’s return would be a huge boost for the Blaugranas, as he has been in a top-class form this season, bagging 19 league goals so far.
“His knee is stable again,” a member of the Barcelona medical staff told L’Equipe.
“There is still a risk of aggravating the damage."
“But this risk will not be the same in a 10 days’ time.”
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maybe henry is like another ballack
getting henry'ed
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Originally posted by iceFatboy:
saw the barca game vs Villarreal, their defence is quite suspect. so I hope MU can exploit that.. and now we got this news -> Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta looks set to miss the Champions League final after picking up a thigh injury.
hmm, hope SAF will be ruthless and tighten the screws and not relax.
wat SAF.....SAFFC ah.....lost 3-1, but quite good show
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Originally posted by SBS n SMRT:
wat SAF.....SAFFC ah.....lost 3-1, but quite good show
I think U are smart enough to know SAF is Sir Alex Ferguson & given we are in MU's forum and not in S-league. but I may be wrong.
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Double trouble looms for United in Rome
Both Thierry Henry and Andres Iniesta will board the flight to Rome for Barcelona’s Champions League final against Manchester United.
Josep Guardiola already has a bevy of defensive absentees to deal with and had previously looked likely to be without the attacking gusto of two other certain starters.
Full backs Eric Abidal and Daniel Alves are both unavailable and fears had since been raised that they would be joined on the bench by Henry, who suffered knee ligament damage in early May, and Iniesta, who tore a thigh muscle eight days later.
However, Henry is ‘optimistic’ after coming through recent training and Iniesta maintains that he ‘will be in Rome’, sentiments that have now been echoed by a member of Barca’s medical department.
“The coach will have them both at his disposal for the final,” he told El Pais.
“It is more difficult for Henry to get up to match fitness because of the type of player that he is and the type of injury.
“But they will both be fit for the game....only just.”