Comments on: Barcelona v Man Utd

By: marke patience

marke patience — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:39:56 +0000

we have the best squad in the world. we can be champions once again.

By: soccerlike

soccerlike — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:08:58 +0000

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

By: cory

cory — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:03:32 +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!!!!!!

By: Noodles for ManUtd

Noodles for ManUtd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:57 +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!!!!!!!

By: Scourfest

Scourfest — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:49:03 +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.

By: simon

simon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:49:50 +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.

By: JamieLee

JamieLee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:16:26 +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.

By: cory

cory — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:21:49 +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.