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91 posts & 28 voices | Started 3 years ago by tankslapper | Latest reply from deadlydarcy

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tails - Member

To summarize bit of shit game got undone by a couple of world class midfielders, and congrats to henry a deserved champs league medal.

I can't believe fergie sent them out that way playing long ball, is not a united tradition, we can do it but if we planned it berba would have started. United just freaked after the goal which is rarely seen. Still better performance than against fulham.

The champs league is a strange cup you sometimes need your nemesis to be knocked out by there nemesis then you can beat them.

I'm sure the "best player in the world" medal will be hung round messi neck, but next year it will adorn ronaldo . . or kaka . . . or torres . . . or gerrard or or or. In much the same way as best, zidane and maldini are as good as pele or maradona but this is somehow never aloud to be spoke about.

I'm surprised messi can jump so high his doctors said he wouldn't grow taller than four and a half foot oh how he has proved them wrong.

The people who hate united are the same people who hate steve peat and the athertons.

manchester united will be back and learn from this just as they did against against milan.

also some lad got stabbed in rome over a game . . . yes a game just like golf or tennis or cycling.

Congratulations barcelona on your treble, you even beat real to it.

world cup qualifiers to come

Posted 3 years ago #
RudeBoy - Blocked

The people who hate united are the same people who hate steve peat and the athertons.

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Posted 3 years ago #
grumm - Member

Didn't think either team really excelled tbh - suppose Barcelona did quite well at stopping United playing their normal game but they were hardly inspirational.

Posted 3 years ago #
RepacK - Member

How did Messi manage to score that header? Hes only 5ft 7in?! Some v poor defending from Man Utd for both goals really - I think thats what undid them more than anything else.

Posted 3 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Didn't think either team excelled?

FFS, Barca make no secret of how they're going to play every game. So those five minute spells when they just moved the ball between each other in close contact without a Utd player even getting a sniff of it? That's not excelling? If that's not excelling then Utd must be nowhere near as good as they've been telling us.

Posted 3 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

I think thats what undid them more than anything else

Granted RePack, the defending wasn't great by Vidic for the first and Franz could have been better positioned for the second...but the undoing of Utd was in not letting them have to ball for most of the game. It unsettled them so much. FFS, they were trying route-one with about twenty minutes to go they were so befuddled.

Posted 3 years ago #
RepacK - Member

They both had purple patches yes but I think as good as Barca were - Man Utd were as bad. So many passes gone a stray, so few passes made, attackers given too much space, so few decent attacking moves..From a team (Man Utd) with great attacking ability they created v little. As for Barca, well they made the most of very slack defending but I didnt see the total football that Barca are capable of delivering.

Posted 3 years ago #
RepacK - Member

Yeah good point Deadly - a lot more route 1 from Man Utd than I expected.

Posted 3 years ago #
Coyote - Member

United fan here.

Well, that was a disappointment. Best two teams in Europe? A classic final? Biggest game for neutrals for years?

Nah, average performance by Barcelona, poor performance by United.

Lets see what happens now...

Posted 3 years ago #
grumm - Member

FFS, Barca make no secret of how they're going to play every game. So those five minute spells when they just moved the ball between each other in close contact without a Utd player even getting a sniff of it? That's not excelling?

No keeping the ball for a bit is not excelling, sorry. They were just not enthralling to watch at all - for all their possession they didn't create that many decent chances.

Posted 3 years ago #
Hadge - Member

Any welders on here? Apparently someones needed to weld the top back onto a double decker bus - please apply at Manchester, Old Trafford

Posted 3 years ago #
tails - Member

a lot more route 1 from Man Utd than I expected.

christ thats an understatement i was screaming at them to do something. chelsea and liverpool are both great at route one, United can play it but not for a whole game not against barca should have stood toe to toe but ultimatly xavi and ineista are currently better than carrick and who ever else plays. Missed hargreaves type player

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Whenever a british person/team does well in recent years say chelsea, united, gunners, cavendish, murray there is always another british person hating them.

Posted 3 years ago #
PrinceJohn - Member

Never sure about games that like that. Was it Barca playing well making Utd look poor?

United had no tempo, didn't press & defended poorly for both goals. As soon as Barca scored Utd didn't have any response, I expected them to come out after half time (they were back on the pitch early enough) & play at a much higher tempo, but they didn't.

Utd's performance tonight was just a bit meh.

Posted 3 years ago #
chela - Member

Poor. Very poor. I thought Barca were made to look good, and they don't need much help at that. If you let them play they look great. But even Chelsea showed in the semi that if you hustle them and play hard and at tempo they can be ordinary.

If Utd had a midfield on the pitch tonight they might've been able to do that. But I couldn't see one. They really needed Hargreaves to rise Lazarus-like from his treatment table.

I know playing Rooney wide has worked before, but I've always thought it was a waste. And overly consevative too, esp against a team you don't want to give the upper hand to and one with a not-great defence. He's a number 10. Play him off a striker FFS.

Posted 3 years ago #
johnhoo - Member

didn't watch it. Can't watch ManUre unless my team's playing them (and usually losing) - which hasn't happened lately as we're now stuck in div3 MOT.

Have a soft spot for Barca too.

Posted 3 years ago #
RepacK - Member

I really thought Utd would win - after Chelsea showed a way in which to play Barca i.e. high tempo & hustle them you can knock them out of their stride. Couple that with Utd's attacking potential - I really thought Utd would win..

And I agree with Chela - Rooney is better in the middle of the park, hes not a winger.

Posted 3 years ago #
billybob - Member

And I agree with Chela - Rooney is better in the middle of the park, hes not a winger.

A whinger maybe, but not a winger!

Posted 2 years ago #
crispy bacon - Member

Turned on the TV last night at 9pm to watch 'Britain's got talent' on ITV1 but I saw this instead

Posted 2 years ago #
trailmonkey - Member

Loving all this talk of Barcelona being average and Man Utd playing badly and making them look good, FFS. Barcelona won at a canter. Utd were poor and played route one because the Barca back 4 played a high line and condensed the game, Utd never had the personel to play the short, tight passing game that this created. Barca did, excellent gameplan from Guardiola. Iniesta and Xavi were so dominant and played with so much energy that the Utd midfield hardly sniffed the ball and when they did, the only option was a long ball. Utd's mistake was not playing the long ball (it was their only option) but not finding a way to exploit it.

The best side won and they were excellent.

Posted 2 years ago #
grumm - Member

The best side won and they were excellent.

Excellent in terms of tactics maybe, but it was hardly a thrilling display from the 'world's best team' was it.

Posted 2 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

So what do we want Barca to do...play big long crossfield diagonal balls to wingers belting up and down the line like greyhound hares? That's just not how they play and as I said before, they make no secret of how they're going to approach the game.

No, it wasn't the cut and thrust type thing we demand from the premiership but I love watching teams play that possession football. It's obviously just a personal thing. While I love the speed of the prem football, I also appreciate how difficult it can be to keep the ball for so long taking only one or two touches with each pass.

Posted 2 years ago #