FC Barcelona (Barça or Blaugrana) | Special Thread

FC Barcelona (Barça or Blaugrana) | Special Thread

am sory bt man u r goin 2 b sloughtered into dearth . . . . !
There can't be mercy while mess wil b on the pitch . . . . . . !
Barca r the champs . . . . . !
 
If you think you know Barca....you are wrong,you have just began to know them,wait and see what is gonna happen to Man U....you will feel sorry them!! BARCA rules!!!!
 
FC Barcelona vs Manchester United.

Ligi hizo mbili sasa zishaisha. Hii ni battle ya mabingwa wa ligi mbili bora zaidi duniani, Ligi ya UK ambayo wadau wengi wapenda soka tunaamini ni ligi bora zaidi kwa sasa na Ligi ya Spain ambayo wadau wengi pia tunaamini ni ligi ya pili kwa ubora duniani. Hadi sasa hakuna majeruhi ambao ni key players kwa pande mbili ambao wameripotiwa, Darren Fletcher alicheza jana hii ikiwa ni ishara kuwa amekuwa fit. Cares Puyol hajacheza mechi kadhaa za mwishoni mwa msimu, sina hakika sana kama atakuwa fit kucheza hilo game. Otherwise watokee katika mazoezi ya kujiandaa na huo mpambano. Tunategemea timu zote zitakuwa na full squads.

Manchester United

Nguzo kuu ya wao kuweza kushinda hilo game pamoja na udhoefu mkubwa wa Sir AF, itakuwa ni namna watakavyoweza kuabsorb mashambulizi ya Barca, ninaamini Sir AF atajaza zaidi viungo wenye uwezo mkubwa wa kukaba, na huku akitegemea uwezo mkubwa wa Vidic kwenye kumaliza mashambulizi. Mbele kama kawaida ataanza na Rooney kwa ajili ya kufanya mashambulizi ya kushtukiza, '' counter attack'', huku akisaidiwa na mkongwe Ryan Giggs. Sina hakika sana kama ataanza na Chicharito, naamini ataanza kwa kutumia zaidi viungo kwa ajili ya kuabsorb pressure ya viungo wa Barca, nategemea ataanza na double holding midfielders ya Darren Fletcher na Michael Carrick, hii ikiwa na maana ya kuzuia njia za mashambulizi ya Barca ambayo mengi yanapikwa kuanzia katikati, huku akimtumia Chicharito kama Sub kutegemea na mchezo utaenda vp.

Kwa ujumla Manchester haijawa bora sana msimu huu, imekuwa ikiimarika jinsi msimu ulivyokuwa unaendelea, unaweza kuhakikisha hili kwa idadi ya point ambazo zimeipa ubingwa ni pts 80. Hizi ni pointi chache zaidi kwa timu kuchukulia ubingwa kwa misimu 10 ya ligi ya UK tangu msimu wa 2000/2001 ambapo bingwa pia alikuwa na pts 80. Japokuwa hii inaweza kuwa ilichangiwa na wachezaji kuwa majeruhi, lakini pia perfomance wa Man U kwenye away games za premier league msimu huu imekuwa ni si nzuri, wameshinda mechi 5 tu kati ya 23 walizoshinda msimu mzima. Ila kwenye UCL Man U wamekuwa na perfomance nzuri sana kwenye away games wakiwa na clean sheet katika mechi 6 za msimu huu ambazo ni vs Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor,Marseille, Chelsea na Shakle 04.

FC BARCELONA

Kikosi cha Johan Cruyff miaka ya 1992, ndio ilisadikika ni kikosi bora zaidi katika historia ya Barca, hiki kikosi kinaitwa ''the dream team'', enzi hizo Pep akiwa kama mchezaji, ila wachambuzi wa mambo ya kimpira tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Pep ni bora zaidi kuliko the dream team. Endapo Barca itatwaa kombe tarehe 28, basi wataalamu wa soka tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Barca kitakuwa ni kikosi bora zaidi kuwahi tokea katika historia ya kandanda, kikiizidi AC Milan ya 1989/90 na pia Brazil ya mwaka 1970.

Mpira wa Barca unajulikana, ni wa pasi fupifupi, kupossess mpira na kushambulia kwa nguvu (falsafa ya Pep, 1. keep the ball 2. Attack seriously). Hawana formation tofauti, sana sana kubadilika kwao ni namna Messi anavyoanzisha mashambulizi (anaweza shambulia tokea kushoto, kulia au akacheza deep km kiungo wakati huku akiwa kama virtual centre forward au akacheza kama namba 10). Mechi itakuwa ngumu sana maana Sir Alex Ferguson ni kocha bora zaidi wa kubadilika na kuusoma mchezo wa timu pinzani. Kazi kubwa zaidi ya Manchester itakuwa ni namna ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe hatari sana, Lionel Messi. Nasema ni kazi kubwa ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe maana anauwezo mkubwa sana wa kushambulia tokea kona yoyote ya uwanja, na namna anavyoweza kupossess mpira ni rahisi sana kufanyiwa faulo zenye kuweza kuzaa kadi. Ni lazima awe marked kwa ukaribu sana na wachezaji kadhaa wa Man U. Stream kubwa ya magoli ya Barca inazalishwa na hiki kiwanda Lionel Messi, huku ikifanyiwa processing na play maker bora zaidi kwa sasa Xavi Hernandez akisaidiana na Andres Iniesta. Hawa watu watatu wanaform Trio kali zaidi kwa sasa duniani. Hii Trio binafsi inanikumbusha Trio nyingine kali sana ya Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit na Marco Van Basten (Holland and AC Milan)

Sitegemei kabisa Manchester kumiliki eneo la katikati, hapa watakuwa na wakati mgumu sana wa kuusaka mpira. Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquet, Daniel Alves na Pedro Rodriguez watawapa kazi sana viungo wa Man U.

Tathmini yangu

Kimpira, Barcelona watakuwa nyumbani, maana wao ndio wataikaribisha Man U, hivyo watakuwa na jezi zao za ushindi huku Man U wakiwa na jezi za away. Kigeographia, Manchester wapo ardhi ya nyumbani Wembley, wameuzoea uwanja zaidi ya Barca, hii ni advantage kubwa sana kwa Man U.

Nani Bingwa ?

1. Victor Valdes.
2. Daniel Alves.
3. Eric Abidal.
4. Gerald Pique.
5. Cares Puyol.
6. Sergio Busquet.
7. Andres Iniesta.
8. Xavi Hernandez.
9. David Villa.
10. Lionel Messi.
11. Pedro Rodriguez.

Tegemea hiki kikosi kuwa mabingwa.
 
Wacha1 said:
Vile vijamaa nasikia viliwapiga bakora! khe khe khe kheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Wacha1 umekuja kufanya nini huko ?.Hili ni jukwaa la mabingwa wanabadilishana mawazo wewe unatakiwa usajili wachezaji proven si vitoto.
 
Observer2010 said:
FC Barcelona vs Manchester United.

Ligi hizo mbili sasa zishaisha. Hii ni battle ya mabingwa wa ligi mbili bora zaidi duniani, Ligi ya UK ambayo wadau wengi wapenda soka tunaamini ni ligi bora zaidi kwa sasa na Ligi ya Spain ambayo wadau wengi pia tunaamini ni ligi ya pili kwa ubora duniani. Hadi sasa hakuna majeruhi ambao ni key players kwa pande mbili ambao wameripotiwa, Darren Fletcher alicheza jana hii ikiwa ni ishara kuwa amekuwa fit. Cares Puyol hajacheza mechi kadhaa za mwishoni mwa msimu, sina hakika sana kama atakuwa fit kucheza hilo game. Otherwise watokee katika mazoezi ya kujiandaa na huo mpambano. Tunategemea timu zote zitakuwa na full squads.

Manchester United

Nguzo kuu ya wao kuweza kushinda hilo game pamoja na udhoefu mkubwa wa Sir AF, itakuwa ni namna watakavyoweza kuabsorb mashambulizi ya Barca, ninaamini Sir AF atajaza zaidi viungo wenye uwezo mkubwa wa kukaba, na huku akitegemea uwezo mkubwa wa Vidic kwenye kumaliza mashambulizi. Mbele kama kawaida ataanza na Rooney kwa ajili ya kufanya mashambulizi ya kushtukiza, '' counter attack'', huku akisaidiwa na mkongwe Ryan Giggs. Sina hakika sana kama ataanza na Chicharito, naamini ataanza kwa kutumia zaidi viungo kwa ajili ya kuabsorb pressure ya viungo wa Barca, nategemea ataanza na double holding midfielders ya Darren Fletcher na Michael Carrick, hii ikiwa na maana ya kuzuia njia za mashambulizi ya Barca ambayo mengi yanapikwa kuanzia katikati, huku akimtumia Chicharito kama Sub kutegemea na mchezo utaenda vp.

Kwa ujumla Manchester haijawa bora sana msimu huu, imekuwa ikiimarika jinsi msimu ulivyokuwa unaendelea, unaweza kuhakikisha hili kwa idadi ya point ambazo zimeipa ubingwa ni pts 80. Hizi ni pointi chache zaidi kwa timu kuchukulia ubingwa kwa misimu 10 ya ligi ya UK tangu msimu wa 2000/2001 ambapo bingwa pia alikuwa na pts 80. Japokuwa hii inaweza kuwa ilichangiwa na wachezaji kuwa majeruhi, lakini pia perfomance wa Man U kwenye away games za premier league msimu huu imekuwa ni si nzuri, wameshinda mechi 5 tu kati ya 23 walizoshinda msimu mzima. Ila kwenye UCL Man U wamekuwa na perfomance nzuri sana kwenye away games wakiwa na clean sheet katika mechi 6 za msimu huu ambazo ni vs Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor,Marseille, Chelsea na Shakle 04.

FC BARCELONA

Kikosi cha Johan Cruyff miaka ya 1992, ndio ilisadikika ni kikosi bora zaidi katika historia ya Barca, hiki kikosi kinaitwa ''the dream team'', enzi hizo Pep akiwa kama mchezaji, ila wachambuzi wa mambo ya kimpira tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Pep ni bora zaidi kuliko the dream team. Endapo Barca itatwaa kombe tarehe 28, basi wataalamu wa soka tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Barca kitakuwa ni kikosi bora zaidi kuwahi tokea katika historia ya kandanda, kikiizidi AC Milan ya 1989/90 na pia Brazil ya mwaka 1970.

Mpira wa Barca unajulikana, ni wa pasi fupifupi, kupossess mpira na kushambulia kwa nguvu (falsafa ya Pep, 1. keep the ball 2. Attack seriously). Hawana formation tofauti, sana sana kubadilika kwao ni namna Messi anavyoanzisha mashambulizi (anaweza shambulia tokea kushoto, kulia au akacheza deep km kiungo wakati huku akiwa kama virtual centre forward au akacheza kama namba 10). Mechi itakuwa ngumu sana maana Sir Alex Ferguson ni kocha bora zaidi wa kubadilika na kuusoma mchezo wa timu pinzani. Kazi kubwa zaidi ya Manchester itakuwa ni namna ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe hatari sana, Lionel Messi. Nasema ni kazi kubwa ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe maana anauwezo mkubwa sana wa kushambulia tokea kona yoyote ya uwanja, na namna anavyoweza kupossess mpira ni rahisi sana kufanyiwa faulo zenye kuweza kuzaa kadi. Ni lazima awe marked kwa ukaribu sana na wachezaji kadhaa wa Man U. Stream kubwa ya magoli ya Barca inazalishwa na hiki kiwanda Lionel Messi, huku ikifanyiwa processing na play maker bora zaidi kwa sasa Xavi Hernandez akisaidiana na Andres Iniesta. Hawa watu watatu wanaform Trio kali zaidi kwa sasa duniani. Hii Trio binafsi inanikumbusha Trio nyingine kali sana ya Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit na Marco Van Basten (Holland and AC Milan)

Sitegemei kabisa Manchester kumiliki eneo la katikati, hapa watakuwa na wakati mgumu sana wa kuusaka mpira. Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquet, Daniel Alves na Pedro Rodriguez watawapa kazi sana viungo wa Man U.

Tathmini yangu

Kimpira, Barcelona watakuwa nyumbani, maana wao ndio wataikaribisha Man U, hivyo watakuwa na jezi zao za ushindi huku Man U wakiwa na jezi za away. Kigeographia, Manchester wapo ardhi ya nyumbani Wembley, wameuzoea uwanja zaidi ya Barca, hii ni advantage kubwa sana kwa Man U.

Nani Bingwa ?

1. Victor Valdes.
2. Daniel Alves.
3. Eric Abidal.
4. Gerald Pique.
5. Cares Puyol.
6. Sergio Busquet.
7. Andres Iniesta.
8. Xavi Hernandez.
9. David Villa.
10. Lionel Messi.
11. Pedro Rodriguez.

Tegemea hiki kikosi kuwa mabingwa.
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Excellent analysis of the game big up man!!
 
Ngongo said:
Wacha1 umekuja kufanya nini huko ?.Hili ni jukwaa la mabingwa wanabadilishana mawazo wewe unatakiwa usajili wachezaji proven si vitoto.
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Bora umuambie bana.....hivi huyu timu yake si ndio ilishuka daraja (nasikia msimu ujao ataanzia mchngani Champions League), au sio huyu?
 
Kama wewe ni Pep Guardiola,Ukiwa na Messi,Xavi,Iniesta,David Villa na hasa niseme ukiwa na LIONE ILO LI MESSI utakiacha kikombe uwanjani?
 
Observer2010 said:
FC Barcelona vs Manchester United.

Ligi hizo mbili sasa zishaisha. Hii ni battle ya mabingwa wa ligi mbili bora zaidi duniani, Ligi ya UK ambayo wadau wengi wapenda soka tunaamini ni ligi bora zaidi kwa sasa na Ligi ya Spain ambayo wadau wengi pia tunaamini ni ligi ya pili kwa ubora duniani. Hadi sasa hakuna majeruhi ambao ni key players kwa pande mbili ambao wameripotiwa, Darren Fletcher alicheza jana hii ikiwa ni ishara kuwa amekuwa fit. Cares Puyol hajacheza mechi kadhaa za mwishoni mwa msimu, sina hakika sana kama atakuwa fit kucheza hilo game. Otherwise watokee katika mazoezi ya kujiandaa na huo mpambano. Tunategemea timu zote zitakuwa na full squads.

Manchester United

Nguzo kuu ya wao kuweza kushinda hilo game pamoja na udhoefu mkubwa wa Sir AF, itakuwa ni namna watakavyoweza kuabsorb mashambulizi ya Barca, ninaamini Sir AF atajaza zaidi viungo wenye uwezo mkubwa wa kukaba, na huku akitegemea uwezo mkubwa wa Vidic kwenye kumaliza mashambulizi. Mbele kama kawaida ataanza na Rooney kwa ajili ya kufanya mashambulizi ya kushtukiza, '' counter attack'', huku akisaidiwa na mkongwe Ryan Giggs. Sina hakika sana kama ataanza na Chicharito, naamini ataanza kwa kutumia zaidi viungo kwa ajili ya kuabsorb pressure ya viungo wa Barca, nategemea ataanza na double holding midfielders ya Darren Fletcher na Michael Carrick, hii ikiwa na maana ya kuzuia njia za mashambulizi ya Barca ambayo mengi yanapikwa kuanzia katikati, huku akimtumia Chicharito kama Sub kutegemea na mchezo utaenda vp.

Kwa ujumla Manchester haijawa bora sana msimu huu, imekuwa ikiimarika jinsi msimu ulivyokuwa unaendelea, unaweza kuhakikisha hili kwa idadi ya point ambazo zimeipa ubingwa ni pts 80. Hizi ni pointi chache zaidi kwa timu kuchukulia ubingwa kwa misimu 10 ya ligi ya UK tangu msimu wa 2000/2001 ambapo bingwa pia alikuwa na pts 80. Japokuwa hii inaweza kuwa ilichangiwa na wachezaji kuwa majeruhi, lakini pia perfomance wa Man U kwenye away games za premier league msimu huu imekuwa ni si nzuri, wameshinda mechi 5 tu kati ya 23 walizoshinda msimu mzima. Ila kwenye UCL Man U wamekuwa na perfomance nzuri sana kwenye away games wakiwa na clean sheet katika mechi 6 za msimu huu ambazo ni vs Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor,Marseille, Chelsea na Shakle 04.

FC BARCELONA

Kikosi cha Johan Cruyff miaka ya 1992, ndio ilisadikika ni kikosi bora zaidi katika historia ya Barca, hiki kikosi kinaitwa ''the dream team'', enzi hizo Pep akiwa kama mchezaji, ila wachambuzi wa mambo ya kimpira tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Pep ni bora zaidi kuliko the dream team. Endapo Barca itatwaa kombe tarehe 28, basi wataalamu wa soka tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Barca kitakuwa ni kikosi bora zaidi kuwahi tokea katika historia ya kandanda, kikiizidi AC Milan ya 1989/90 na pia Brazil ya mwaka 1970.

Mpira wa Barca unajulikana, ni wa pasi fupifupi, kupossess mpira na kushambulia kwa nguvu (falsafa ya Pep, 1. keep the ball 2. Attack seriously). Hawana formation tofauti, sana sana kubadilika kwao ni namna Messi anavyoanzisha mashambulizi (anaweza shambulia tokea kushoto, kulia au akacheza deep km kiungo wakati huku akiwa kama virtual centre forward au akacheza kama namba 10). Mechi itakuwa ngumu sana maana Sir Alex Ferguson ni kocha bora zaidi wa kubadilika na kuusoma mchezo wa timu pinzani. Kazi kubwa zaidi ya Manchester itakuwa ni namna ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe hatari sana, Lionel Messi. Nasema ni kazi kubwa ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe maana anauwezo mkubwa sana wa kushambulia tokea kona yoyote ya uwanja, na namna anavyoweza kupossess mpira ni rahisi sana kufanyiwa faulo zenye kuweza kuzaa kadi. Ni lazima awe marked kwa ukaribu sana na wachezaji kadhaa wa Man U. Stream kubwa ya magoli ya Barca inazalishwa na hiki kiwanda Lionel Messi, huku ikifanyiwa processing na play maker bora zaidi kwa sasa Xavi Hernandez akisaidiana na Andres Iniesta. Hawa watu watatu wanaform Trio kali zaidi kwa sasa duniani. Hii Trio binafsi inanikumbusha Trio nyingine kali sana ya Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit na Marco Van Basten (Holland and AC Milan)

Sitegemei kabisa Manchester kumiliki eneo la katikati, hapa watakuwa na wakati mgumu sana wa kuusaka mpira. Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquet, Daniel Alves na Pedro Rodriguez watawapa kazi sana viungo wa Man U.

Tathmini yangu

Kimpira, Barcelona watakuwa nyumbani, maana wao ndio wataikaribisha Man U, hivyo watakuwa na jezi zao za ushindi huku Man U wakiwa na jezi za away. Kigeographia, Manchester wapo ardhi ya nyumbani Wembley, wameuzoea uwanja zaidi ya Barca, hii ni advantage kubwa sana kwa Man U.

Nani Bingwa ?

1. Victor Valdes.
2. Daniel Alves.
3. Eric Abidal.
4. Gerald Pique.
5. Cares Puyol.
6. Sergio Busquet.
7. Andres Iniesta.
8. Xavi Hernandez.
9. David Villa.
10. Lionel Messi.
11. Pedro Rodriguez.

Tegemea hiki kikosi kuwa mabingwa.
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Excellent post!
 
Big fan wa Man United, nawatabiria 1-0, Go Man Go Man!!!:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:
 
Observer2010 said:
FC Barcelona vs Manchester United.

Ligi hizo mbili sasa zishaisha. Hii ni battle ya mabingwa wa ligi mbili bora zaidi duniani, Ligi ya UK ambayo wadau wengi wapenda soka tunaamini ni ligi bora zaidi kwa sasa na Ligi ya Spain ambayo wadau wengi pia tunaamini ni ligi ya pili kwa ubora duniani. Hadi sasa hakuna majeruhi ambao ni key players kwa pande mbili ambao wameripotiwa, Darren Fletcher alicheza jana hii ikiwa ni ishara kuwa amekuwa fit. Cares Puyol hajacheza mechi kadhaa za mwishoni mwa msimu, sina hakika sana kama atakuwa fit kucheza hilo game. Otherwise watokee katika mazoezi ya kujiandaa na huo mpambano. Tunategemea timu zote zitakuwa na full squads.

Manchester United

Nguzo kuu ya wao kuweza kushinda hilo game pamoja na udhoefu mkubwa wa Sir AF, itakuwa ni namna watakavyoweza kuabsorb mashambulizi ya Barca, ninaamini Sir AF atajaza zaidi viungo wenye uwezo mkubwa wa kukaba, na huku akitegemea uwezo mkubwa wa Vidic kwenye kumaliza mashambulizi. Mbele kama kawaida ataanza na Rooney kwa ajili ya kufanya mashambulizi ya kushtukiza, '' counter attack'', huku akisaidiwa na mkongwe Ryan Giggs. Sina hakika sana kama ataanza na Chicharito, naamini ataanza kwa kutumia zaidi viungo kwa ajili ya kuabsorb pressure ya viungo wa Barca, nategemea ataanza na double holding midfielders ya Darren Fletcher na Michael Carrick, hii ikiwa na maana ya kuzuia njia za mashambulizi ya Barca ambayo mengi yanapikwa kuanzia katikati, huku akimtumia Chicharito kama Sub kutegemea na mchezo utaenda vp.

Kwa ujumla Manchester haijawa bora sana msimu huu, imekuwa ikiimarika jinsi msimu ulivyokuwa unaendelea, unaweza kuhakikisha hili kwa idadi ya point ambazo zimeipa ubingwa ni pts 80. Hizi ni pointi chache zaidi kwa timu kuchukulia ubingwa kwa misimu 10 ya ligi ya UK tangu msimu wa 2000/2001 ambapo bingwa pia alikuwa na pts 80. Japokuwa hii inaweza kuwa ilichangiwa na wachezaji kuwa majeruhi, lakini pia perfomance wa Man U kwenye away games za premier league msimu huu imekuwa ni si nzuri, wameshinda mechi 5 tu kati ya 23 walizoshinda msimu mzima. Ila kwenye UCL Man U wamekuwa na perfomance nzuri sana kwenye away games wakiwa na clean sheet katika mechi 6 za msimu huu ambazo ni vs Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor,Marseille, Chelsea na Shakle 04.

FC BARCELONA

Kikosi cha Johan Cruyff miaka ya 1992, ndio ilisadikika ni kikosi bora zaidi katika historia ya Barca, hiki kikosi kinaitwa ''the dream team'', enzi hizo Pep akiwa kama mchezaji, ila wachambuzi wa mambo ya kimpira tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Pep ni bora zaidi kuliko the dream team. Endapo Barca itatwaa kombe tarehe 28, basi wataalamu wa soka tunaamini hiki kikosi cha Barca kitakuwa ni kikosi bora zaidi kuwahi tokea katika historia ya kandanda, kikiizidi AC Milan ya 1989/90 na pia Brazil ya mwaka 1970.

Mpira wa Barca unajulikana, ni wa pasi fupifupi, kupossess mpira na kushambulia kwa nguvu (falsafa ya Pep, 1. keep the ball 2. Attack seriously). Hawana formation tofauti, sana sana kubadilika kwao ni namna Messi anavyoanzisha mashambulizi (anaweza shambulia tokea kushoto, kulia au akacheza deep km kiungo wakati huku akiwa kama virtual centre forward au akacheza kama namba 10). Mechi itakuwa ngumu sana maana Sir Alex Ferguson ni kocha bora zaidi wa kubadilika na kuusoma mchezo wa timu pinzani. Kazi kubwa zaidi ya Manchester itakuwa ni namna ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe hatari sana, Lionel Messi. Nasema ni kazi kubwa ya kumdhibiti huyu kiumbe maana anauwezo mkubwa sana wa kushambulia tokea kona yoyote ya uwanja, na namna anavyoweza kupossess mpira ni rahisi sana kufanyiwa faulo zenye kuweza kuzaa kadi. Ni lazima awe marked kwa ukaribu sana na wachezaji kadhaa wa Man U. Stream kubwa ya magoli ya Barca inazalishwa na hiki kiwanda Lionel Messi, huku ikifanyiwa processing na play maker bora zaidi kwa sasa Xavi Hernandez akisaidiana na Andres Iniesta. Hawa watu watatu wanaform Trio kali zaidi kwa sasa duniani. Hii Trio binafsi inanikumbusha Trio nyingine kali sana ya Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit na Marco Van Basten (Holland and AC Milan)

Sitegemei kabisa Manchester kumiliki eneo la katikati, hapa watakuwa na wakati mgumu sana wa kuusaka mpira. Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquet, Daniel Alves na Pedro Rodriguez watawapa kazi sana viungo wa Man U.

Tathmini yangu

Kimpira, Barcelona watakuwa nyumbani, maana wao ndio wataikaribisha Man U, hivyo watakuwa na jezi zao za ushindi huku Man U wakiwa na jezi za away. Kigeographia, Manchester wapo ardhi ya nyumbani Wembley, wameuzoea uwanja zaidi ya Barca, hii ni advantage kubwa sana kwa Man U.

Nani Bingwa ?

1. Victor Valdes.
2. Daniel Alves.
3. Eric Abidal.
4. Gerald Pique.
5. Cares Puyol.
6. Sergio Busquet.
7. Andres Iniesta.
8. Xavi Hernandez.
9. David Villa.
10. Lionel Messi.
11. Pedro Rodriguez.

Tegemea hiki kikosi kuwa mabingwa.
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mbona ujaweka kikosi cha man u au ndo barca damu narrator...
 
True barca fans mko wapi? Jumamosi inapproach let us pray for our team god bless barca pamoja sana.
 
Ni nafasi ya United kusahihisha makosa ya zamani..........................
Two years on, Ferguson prepares to bury the bitter memories of Rome

The Manchester United manager will not talk about the 2009 defeat but believes his side will be better drilled this time



  • Link to this video From Sir Alex Ferguson, there were no excuses. Sometimes there is no option but to admit the other side were better and, that evening in Rome, it was futile to argue otherwise. Manchester United had been outplayed, it was plain to see and for the losing manager the ordeal was so great, the jolt so shuddering, there have been times since when it has felt like he has wanted to shut it out of his life.
    He has not, of course, and yet the oldest manager in the business has never properly offered his account of what happened that night – 27 May, 2009, the Champions League final and a 2-0 win for Barcelona that, for long spells, amounted to a master-class in the art of retaining possession.
    At the start of the following season, Ferguson quickly made it clear he did not want, or expect, questions on the subject. For reasons only he properly knows, it has become one of his taboo subjects, broken over the past few weeks only because of the rematch that lies in wait at Wembley this weekend.
    Even now, however, he is reluctant to go too deeply into what made it such a galling occasion. He has still not let on why he considers everything unravelled once Samuel Eto'o squeezed the opening goal past Edwin van der Sar. Or what he meant directly after the match when he said something had gone wrong with United's preparation: something he would not define but made clear he would put right if the sides ever met again.
    What he will say is that Barcelona, this team of butterfly-beauty and quick, mesmerising, pass-them-to-death football, are an even more formidable unit than they were two years ago. "They've improved. They have more maturity about their team now. Winning that European Cup was a big step forward for them. This is a better side now."
    Can the same be said of Manchester United? And was Xavi Hernández being genuine when he said this team of Ferguson's were markedly superior to that which crumpled so badly in the sweltering heat of the Stadio Olimpico?
    The popular answer to both questions would have to be no considering United have lost one of the authentic superstars in Cristiano Ronaldo and no longer have Carlos Tevez even if, back then, the Argentinian was not always the player of strutting self-belief we see at Manchester City today. An alternative view is that Ronaldo demonstrated some of his more self-absorbed traits in Rome, shooting from the kind of distances and angles to concoct the sense among many observers he single-handedly wanted to turn Europe's premier club game into a one-man event.
    Ferguson, for the record, disagrees, confiding once that Ronaldo was one of the few players not to warrant any blame. But he also believes there is enough hard evidence now to remove the sense that, without the Portuguese, they are a lesser team. United have just won the league by nine points. They qualified for this final without having conceded an away goal.
    "All I can say is that all teams are different, the game evolves," he says. "I am well aware we have our critics, people who think we lack flair and don't play fantasy football, who believe we fall short of being a vintage side. As I once said to a pressman who observed that we were winning, but without firing on all cylinders, 'What do you want ... blood?'"
    Those who are closest to Ferguson say that part of his strategy this time is to avoid talking up United's opponents too much. This is a side, he has told his players, who can be brilliant in thrilling, sporadic flashes, but who were only a miscued Nicklas Bendtner toe-poke from being eliminated against Arsenal in the last 16.
    He has also subjected himself to several different versions of the match video from 2009 and the carelessness of his players can make him wince. Michael Carrick chose a bad night to have possibly his least distinguished game for the club. Nemanja Vidic was badly at fault for the first goal, standing off Eto'o, allowing him too much room to fire in his shot. For the second, Rio Ferdinand was flat-footed, Lionel Messi eluding him to score a rare headed goal.
    In mitigation, it was Ferdinand's first game for more than three weeks. This has been another issue in United's preparations: Ferguson felt some of his players were not sharp enough in Rome. Anderson, who was so ineffective he was substituted at half-time, had not started a match for a fortnight; Park Ji-sung for two and a half weeks. This is why the team Ferguson selected against Blackpool on Sunday was stronger than had been anticipated.
    Yet the video also tells Ferguson that in the first minute, Ronaldo hit a free-kick so well that Victor Valdés could only parry the shot and it needed a brilliant clearing tackle from Gerard Piqué to stop Park putting in the rebound. The enormity of that moment cannot be overstated. "But for what Gerard did," Thierry Henry, then of Barcelona, says, "it could have been a very different match."
    Pep Guardiola's side had looked nervous until the opening goal. Passes went astray. There was one moment when Yaya Touré and Carles Puyol ran into one another. "We just couldn't settle," Henry admits. "There was a corner kick straight after [Ronaldo's shot], then a couple of crosses. You realise you're lucky not to be behind and you kind of forget who you are for a while. It's like when a great boxer gets knocked down. It doesn't mean he won't win the fight. But for the rest of the three minutes, until he hears the bell, he's going to struggle."
    These moments have been lost in time now, inconsequential in the grand scheme of things once Barcelona started playing that rhythmic, fluent football that once had Ferguson talking of a team that "get you on the carousel and can leave you dizzy". Ferguson sat in the bowels of the stadium that night and there was unmistakeable sadness etched on his face. Maybe, he said, it would have made a difference if Darren Fletcher had not been suspended. "It wasn't really Messi who was the problem. It was Iniesta and Xavi. They can keep the ball all night long."
    Ferdinand would later say that "not one of us played well". Wayne Rooney picked out Iniesta, describing him as the best player in the world. Ryan Giggs said: "At times Barcelona can make you look silly because they keep the ball so well." Then someone asked Ferguson whether, at the age of 67, he still had the desire to come back for more trophies. It was sweaty and airless, buzzing with mosquitoes, and it was here his emotions came to the surface. "I don't understand that question on a night like this," he snapped. "I don't like that stupid bloody question."
    Two years on, he can be encouraged at least that United, even without Ronaldo, are in better shape. Fletcher is available this time. The squad is free of injury, and it speaks volumes that neither the club's player of the year, Nani, nor their leading scorer, Dimitar Berbatov, will probably get in the team.
    "It's not just about Barcelona, it's about us, too – what's best for us and the best way of winning the match," Ferguson said. "Yes, I concede Barcelona are favourites in many people's eyes, and they have a super side. But I've always said that Manchester United like challenges. Don't write us off. You wouldn't want to do that."

 
The Question: How best for Manchester United to combat Barcelona?

Sir Alex Ferguson is a tinkerer, so what will he come up with to help United stifle Barça in the Champions League final



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    The Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be looking to devise a winning formula for the Champions League final against Barcelona. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

    Talk to Arsène Wenger or Arrigo Sacchi and they'll tell you that it was the Ajax of the early 70s that shaped their philosophy. The basic tenets are simple: pass and move when in possession, squeeze the play when out of it. As Sacchi's Milan cut through Italian preconceptions in the late 80s, and Italy were beaten by Valeriy Lobanovskyi's USSR in the semi-final of Euro 88, Marcello Lippi acknowledged that "everybody plays a pressing game now".
    That has long been true at Barcelona, to where Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff exported their philosophy 40 years ago. The Ajax theory has underpinned their thinking ever since, through the Dream Team days of Cruyff in the early 90s to the present side of Pep Guardiola who, of course, played for Cruyff. In the past two decades, though, that style of play pioneered by Viktor Maslov with Dynamo Kyiv and by Michels at Ajax in the mid-60s had become, at the highest level, a universal default, at least for proactive teams.
    Even those, such as the British long-ball theorist Charles Reep, who favoured a more direct approach, began to press, recognising the value of winning the ball back high up the pitch. Essentially the difference between the Reepian and Maslovian models was in what was done with the ball when it was won. Reep wanted the ball played forward quickly, believing each additional pass was the potential source of error. Maslov and Michels trusted the technique of their sides and looked to treasure the ball. After all, when you're in possession it takes spectacular bad luck or incompetence to let the opposition score.
    It is possible, of course, to be successful with a reactive side, as José Mourinho was with Internazionale last season, for instance. Sit deep, absorb pressure and strike on the counterattack. The sense, though, is that the truly great sides, the 10 or a dozen who live not only in the record books but in the folk memory of the game, must be proactive.
    Which is not to say they may not be defensive. There is a tendency in England to believe that defending means retreating to the edge of the penalty area and digging in for a protracted siege, but there are few better ways of defending than holding the ball in the opposition half. Look at Ajax's three successive European Cup wins: in the latter two, in 1972 and 1973, they took early leads and essentially passed the game into submission. At the World Cup, as every team bar Chile bunkered down against Spain, they opted for a policy of control, knowing that at some point the goal would come. And Barça can do that as well; often they are so superior to their opponents that they can attack almost without fear, but in big games – as in the Champions League final two years ago – they have proved themselves more than capable of protecting a lead by protecting the ball – the "sterile domination" of which Wenger spoke.
    Manchester United were made to look very ordinary in that final in Rome, yet the truth is that until Samuel Eto'o put Barça ahead after 10 minutes, they were the better side. Once Barça had the lead, they simply kept the ball. The bad news for United is that the stats suggest they're getting better and better at doing so. In 2006-07, according to Opta, Barcelona had on average 61.1% possession in Champions League games. Since then that has gone up each year: to 63.2 then to 65.6 then 70.6 and this season 73.3. United will have to get used to spending long periods without the ball and will know there is an even greater imperative than normal not to concede the opening goal.
    The suggestion, in fact, is that Barça have grown a little more cautious than they were two years ago, scoring 2.25 goals per game as opposed to 2.46, and conceding 0.67 per game as opposed to 1.00. It may be that you can't prioritise both position and possession, and Barça have opted to control the latter, the result being that they end up playing a little deeper. Their control of games is greater than it was, but their goal threat is lessened. Their pass completion rate is staggering: 89% at home and 90% away. United manage 82% at home and 80.2% away.
    That is partly related to United's style of play. They do play the occasional longer pass partly because, having the ball less than Barcelona, they counter-attack more frequently. Similarly, United are more effective when crossing the ball – their cross completion rate is 21.7% as opposed to 17.4%. Given Gerard Piqué's occasional disquiet under aerial balls – which may have been why Sir Alex Ferguson sold him in the first place – and the possibility that Javier Mascherano will play in central defence if Carles Puyol has to cover at left-back, it is safe to assume that crosses, whether from open play or dead balls, will be one of United's two major modes of attack.
    The other will be the counter-attack. United have always been adept on the break, but they are unlikely to have played many games in which they have had to rely upon it so completely. Barca hog the ball like nobody before them. How best, then, to combat them?
    The Practical Hour-Glass

    The best way – from a theoretical point of view anyway – may be something so radical as to be unthinkable. Given Lionel Messi plays as a false nine, dropping deep from his centre-forward's position, there is an argument to be made that a side requires only one central defender – no markers and a spare man, effectively – and that Messi is best tracked by a defensive midfielder, with the full-backs slightly tucked in to deal with the incursions from wide of Pedro and David Villa. That suggests a 3-3-3-1 shape, although not the three centre-backs, wing-back plus a holder, played by Marcelo Bielsa's Chile in the World Cup, but something more like an hour-glass: wide three, narrow three, wide three, centre-forward.
    Ferguson is a tinkerer, and often comes up with something unexpected for major games, but the chances of him using an untried formation and breaking up the Rio Ferdinand-Nemanja Vidic partnership are nil. So taking the 3-3-3-1 paradigm and pushing the Messi-tracking defensive midfielder to centre-back, we're left with a 4-2-3-1, which is the shape all three sides to have beaten Barcelona in league or Champions League this season – Hercules, Arsenal and Real Sociedad – have used. That said, 27 teams have lined up in a 4-2-3-1 against Barça this season, and while three have won, 20 have lost. (The worst formation to use, statistically, is straight 4-4-2, which has a seven defeats out of seven record). What United must do at all costs is protect that space in front of the two centre-backs; Xabi Alonso did not have the best game for Real Madrid in the first leg of the semi-final, but it was after he had been forced by Pepe's red card to abandon his position just in front of the back four that Messi, granted a couple of yards of acceleration room, produced the second goal that effectively settled the tie.
    United may draw hope, even, from the performance of Shakhtar Donetsk against Barça. Luiz Adriano wasted three presentable chances with the score at either 0-0 or 1-0 in the Camp Nou, before Shakhtar's defensive inadequacies were exploited. And that's part of Barça's strength; Espanyol, also playing a 4-2-3-1, really troubled them in the league game at Nou Sarria this season, pressing high, effectively taking them on at their own game, and they ended up losing 5-1. When that is the prospect for those who challenge them, it's little wonder many sides prefer simply to retreat and accept a two- or three-goal beating. The ferocity and effectiveness of United's pressing in the early stages of the recent league game against Chelsea suggest United intend to try to drive Barça back.
    The Keegan Protocol

    It will come as little surprise that the player in the Champions League to have averaged the most passes per game is Xavi with 106.9 (Michael Carrick is United's best with 74.4 – the ninth most in the Champions League this season). He is also the player to have had the most touches – 121.27 per game (United don't have a player in the top 10) – and to have received the most passes – 98.27 (again, there is no United player in the top 10). Trying to stop him settling is an obvious priority – and may persuade Ferguson to use Darren Fletcher rather than Ryan Giggs in one of the central midfield positions.
    What is perhaps a little more intriguing is that second in those three categories is Sergio Busquets. Claude Makélélé's influence at Stamford Bridge began to wane after Kevin Keegan, while Manchester City manager, showed that Chelsea could be disrupted by sitting a player – in his case Antoine Sibierski – on the midfield holder. His role was ostensibly defensive, but he was also a metronome setting the tempo for everything Chelsea did. Busquets is similar, the conduit through whom almost every Barcelona move must pass; he is vital to their rhythm, something demonstrated by how much less fluent Barça have appeared when Mascherano has been used at the back of midfield.
    That means Wayne Rooney has a vital role from a defensive as well as an attacking point of view, and also is a strong argument in favour of the 4-4-1-1-cum-4-2-3-1 shape United used in both quarter-finals against Chelsea. The alternative is a 4-3-3 with Rooney as a lone central striker, but that would mean breaking up his blossoming partnership with Javier Hernández, and would deny United the Mexican's pace, which could be of supreme value if they end up playing a counterattacking game. The danger is that Rooney snapping around Busquets sounds like a red card waiting to happen, but it's hard to see any other way of disrupting the metronome.
    Behind the full-backs

    One of the outstanding memories of Sevilla's Uefa Cup final victory over Espanyol in 2007 was of the recklessness of Dani Alves's sorties, which left Christian Poulsen, nominally the holding midfielder, operating as an auxiliary right-back. That meant there was either space high on the left flank or in front of the two centre-backs, and it was from those areas that both Espanyol's goals resulted. Barça's way of dealing with the surges of Alves, who astonishingly lies fourth in the table of most touches in the opponent's half per game, is more effective, with Busquets dropping in to become effectively a third centre-back, and one of the centre-backs edging wide.
    Logic suggests that the space behind Alves should be exploitable, but no side has managed that. It would be fascinating to see Ferguson leave Nani high up the pitch on that flank and try to hit him early, but more realistically Park Ji-Sung, perhaps the best defensive forward in the game will be deployed to track and perhaps check him. United's attacking chance comes on the other flank, where Antonio Valencia, who has returned from his broken leg with enhanced strength and stamina, can both drop off to help out in midfield, and run at whoever plays at left-back. Eric Abidal, Adriano and Maxwell are returning from illness or injury, so it may be that Puyol operates there. His performance at right-back in the 2009 final was clear enough evidence that he is not as clumsy as some would suggest, but neither is he a natural full-back.
    For the most part, though, United are likely to be on the back foot. The cavalier style of tradition and stereotype was abandoned long ago but, even so, for United Saturday is likely to be a game of unusual containment.

 
The Question: How best for Manchester United to combat Barcelona?

Sir Alex Ferguson is a tinkerer, so what will he come up with to help United stifle Barça in the Champions League final



  • Sir-Alex-Ferguson-007.jpg
    The Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be looking to devise a winning formula for the Champions League final against Barcelona. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

    Talk to Arsène Wenger or Arrigo Sacchi and they'll tell you that it was the Ajax of the early 70s that shaped their philosophy. The basic tenets are simple: pass and move when in possession, squeeze the play when out of it. As Sacchi's Milan cut through Italian preconceptions in the late 80s, and Italy were beaten by Valeriy Lobanovskyi's USSR in the semi-final of Euro 88, Marcello Lippi acknowledged that "everybody plays a pressing game now".
    That has long been true at Barcelona, to where Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff exported their philosophy 40 years ago. The Ajax theory has underpinned their thinking ever since, through the Dream Team days of Cruyff in the early 90s to the present side of Pep Guardiola who, of course, played for Cruyff. In the past two decades, though, that style of play pioneered by Viktor Maslov with Dynamo Kyiv and by Michels at Ajax in the mid-60s had become, at the highest level, a universal default, at least for proactive teams.
    Even those, such as the British long-ball theorist Charles Reep, who favoured a more direct approach, began to press, recognising the value of winning the ball back high up the pitch. Essentially the difference between the Reepian and Maslovian models was in what was done with the ball when it was won. Reep wanted the ball played forward quickly, believing each additional pass was the potential source of error. Maslov and Michels trusted the technique of their sides and looked to treasure the ball. After all, when you're in possession it takes spectacular bad luck or incompetence to let the opposition score.
    It is possible, of course, to be successful with a reactive side, as José Mourinho was with Internazionale last season, for instance. Sit deep, absorb pressure and strike on the counterattack. The sense, though, is that the truly great sides, the 10 or a dozen who live not only in the record books but in the folk memory of the game, must be proactive.
    Which is not to say they may not be defensive. There is a tendency in England to believe that defending means retreating to the edge of the penalty area and digging in for a protracted siege, but there are few better ways of defending than holding the ball in the opposition half. Look at Ajax's three successive European Cup wins: in the latter two, in 1972 and 1973, they took early leads and essentially passed the game into submission. At the World Cup, as every team bar Chile bunkered down against Spain, they opted for a policy of control, knowing that at some point the goal would come. And Barça can do that as well; often they are so superior to their opponents that they can attack almost without fear, but in big games – as in the Champions League final two years ago – they have proved themselves more than capable of protecting a lead by protecting the ball – the "sterile domination" of which Wenger spoke.
    Manchester United were made to look very ordinary in that final in Rome, yet the truth is that until Samuel Eto'o put Barça ahead after 10 minutes, they were the better side. Once Barça had the lead, they simply kept the ball. The bad news for United is that the stats suggest they're getting better and better at doing so. In 2006-07, according to Opta, Barcelona had on average 61.1% possession in Champions League games. Since then that has gone up each year: to 63.2 then to 65.6 then 70.6 and this season 73.3. United will have to get used to spending long periods without the ball and will know there is an even greater imperative than normal not to concede the opening goal.
    The suggestion, in fact, is that Barça have grown a little more cautious than they were two years ago, scoring 2.25 goals per game as opposed to 2.46, and conceding 0.67 per game as opposed to 1.00. It may be that you can't prioritise both position and possession, and Barça have opted to control the latter, the result being that they end up playing a little deeper. Their control of games is greater than it was, but their goal threat is lessened. Their pass completion rate is staggering: 89% at home and 90% away. United manage 82% at home and 80.2% away.
    That is partly related to United's style of play. They do play the occasional longer pass partly because, having the ball less than Barcelona, they counter-attack more frequently. Similarly, United are more effective when crossing the ball – their cross completion rate is 21.7% as opposed to 17.4%. Given Gerard Piqué's occasional disquiet under aerial balls – which may have been why Sir Alex Ferguson sold him in the first place – and the possibility that Javier Mascherano will play in central defence if Carles Puyol has to cover at left-back, it is safe to assume that crosses, whether from open play or dead balls, will be one of United's two major modes of attack.
    The other will be the counter-attack. United have always been adept on the break, but they are unlikely to have played many games in which they have had to rely upon it so completely. Barca hog the ball like nobody before them. How best, then, to combat them?
    The Practical Hour-Glass

    The best way – from a theoretical point of view anyway – may be something so radical as to be unthinkable. Given Lionel Messi plays as a false nine, dropping deep from his centre-forward's position, there is an argument to be made that a side requires only one central defender – no markers and a spare man, effectively – and that Messi is best tracked by a defensive midfielder, with the full-backs slightly tucked in to deal with the incursions from wide of Pedro and David Villa. That suggests a 3-3-3-1 shape, although not the three centre-backs, wing-back plus a holder, played by Marcelo Bielsa's Chile in the World Cup, but something more like an hour-glass: wide three, narrow three, wide three, centre-forward.
    Ferguson is a tinkerer, and often comes up with something unexpected for major games, but the chances of him using an untried formation and breaking up the Rio Ferdinand-Nemanja Vidic partnership are nil. So taking the 3-3-3-1 paradigm and pushing the Messi-tracking defensive midfielder to centre-back, we're left with a 4-2-3-1, which is the shape all three sides to have beaten Barcelona in league or Champions League this season – Hercules, Arsenal and Real Sociedad – have used. That said, 27 teams have lined up in a 4-2-3-1 against Barça this season, and while three have won, 20 have lost. (The worst formation to use, statistically, is straight 4-4-2, which has a seven defeats out of seven record). What United must do at all costs is protect that space in front of the two centre-backs; Xabi Alonso did not have the best game for Real Madrid in the first leg of the semi-final, but it was after he had been forced by Pepe's red card to abandon his position just in front of the back four that Messi, granted a couple of yards of acceleration room, produced the second goal that effectively settled the tie.
    United may draw hope, even, from the performance of Shakhtar Donetsk against Barça. Luiz Adriano wasted three presentable chances with the score at either 0-0 or 1-0 in the Camp Nou, before Shakhtar's defensive inadequacies were exploited. And that's part of Barça's strength; Espanyol, also playing a 4-2-3-1, really troubled them in the league game at Nou Sarria this season, pressing high, effectively taking them on at their own game, and they ended up losing 5-1. When that is the prospect for those who challenge them, it's little wonder many sides prefer simply to retreat and accept a two- or three-goal beating. The ferocity and effectiveness of United's pressing in the early stages of the recent league game against Chelsea suggest United intend to try to drive Barça back.
    The Keegan Protocol

    It will come as little surprise that the player in the Champions League to have averaged the most passes per game is Xavi with 106.9 (Michael Carrick is United's best with 74.4 – the ninth most in the Champions League this season). He is also the player to have had the most touches – 121.27 per game (United don't have a player in the top 10) – and to have received the most passes – 98.27 (again, there is no United player in the top 10). Trying to stop him settling is an obvious priority – and may persuade Ferguson to use Darren Fletcher rather than Ryan Giggs in one of the central midfield positions.
    What is perhaps a little more intriguing is that second in those three categories is Sergio Busquets. Claude Makélélé's influence at Stamford Bridge began to wane after Kevin Keegan, while Manchester City manager, showed that Chelsea could be disrupted by sitting a player – in his case Antoine Sibierski – on the midfield holder. His role was ostensibly defensive, but he was also a metronome setting the tempo for everything Chelsea did. Busquets is similar, the conduit through whom almost every Barcelona move must pass; he is vital to their rhythm, something demonstrated by how much less fluent Barça have appeared when Mascherano has been used at the back of midfield.
    That means Wayne Rooney has a vital role from a defensive as well as an attacking point of view, and also is a strong argument in favour of the 4-4-1-1-cum-4-2-3-1 shape United used in both quarter-finals against Chelsea. The alternative is a 4-3-3 with Rooney as a lone central striker, but that would mean breaking up his blossoming partnership with Javier Hernández, and would deny United the Mexican's pace, which could be of supreme value if they end up playing a counterattacking game. The danger is that Rooney snapping around Busquets sounds like a red card waiting to happen, but it's hard to see any other way of disrupting the metronome.
    Behind the full-backs

    One of the outstanding memories of Sevilla's Uefa Cup final victory over Espanyol in 2007 was of the recklessness of Dani Alves's sorties, which left Christian Poulsen, nominally the holding midfielder, operating as an auxiliary right-back. That meant there was either space high on the left flank or in front of the two centre-backs, and it was from those areas that both Espanyol's goals resulted. Barça's way of dealing with the surges of Alves, who astonishingly lies fourth in the table of most touches in the opponent's half per game, is more effective, with Busquets dropping in to become effectively a third centre-back, and one of the centre-backs edging wide.
    Logic suggests that the space behind Alves should be exploitable, but no side has managed that. It would be fascinating to see Ferguson leave Nani high up the pitch on that flank and try to hit him early, but more realistically Park Ji-Sung, perhaps the best defensive forward in the game will be deployed to track and perhaps check him. United's attacking chance comes on the other flank, where Antonio Valencia, who has returned from his broken leg with enhanced strength and stamina, can both drop off to help out in midfield, and run at whoever plays at left-back. Eric Abidal, Adriano and Maxwell are returning from illness or injury, so it may be that Puyol operates there. His performance at right-back in the 2009 final was clear enough evidence that he is not as clumsy as some would suggest, but neither is he a natural full-back.
    For the most part, though, United are likely to be on the back foot. The cavalier style of tradition and stereotype was abandoned long ago but, even so, for United Saturday is likely to be a game of unusual containment.

 
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Champions League Final, Barcelona Vs. Manchester United – Messi : It was a Dream Final




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Towards the Champions League final between Barcelona Vs. Manchester United, Lionel Messi said that it was a dream final. Champions League final between Barcelona Vs. Manchester United will be held at Wembley Stadium on May 28, 2011 (scheduled).


"I think it's like a dream final, when we deal with MU. They are a team that was in the same level with us and I'm sure if it will be a tense final," said Messi.


Two years ago, Barcelona also face Manchester United in the final match at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome. In fact, Messi also scored a goal and bring Barcelona win over Manchester United with the score 2-0.


"They're strong, and they will not try to ruin our game. MU will have its own type of game,"said Messi.


Messi also gave praise to the coach of Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson because he managed to bring The Red Devil got his championship in a long period of time.


"I have great respect in his work (Ferguson). You must have a great coach and great person, if his success in the same team again and again to win the title, developing players and playing styles,"said Messi.


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