What a result!!! Brilliant.
I'm glad the refs wrong had no impact- one team didn't let it. But it was easy as barca ripped the crap out of united. 3-1 is lucky for united. Should have been more like 5-1 (pedro's sitters).
giggs offside for the goal and valencias 5 bookable lunges on messi (only one yellow) were forgotten.
I knew in the first 5 miniutes who will win; manu left messi virtually completely unmarked the entire game. Arsenal had 3 players dedicated to stopping messi- just stalking him wherever he went, and they beat barca in london. So too did madrid in the cup final. Don't get me wrong, barca are not a one man team, but it's a team based around messi. Ibrahimovic didn't like this fact so he legged it. And having a team based around one player isn't a bad tactic (manu- c ronaldo, arsenal- T henry, argentina- maradona, Inter- l ronaldo, juve- zidane....) ESPECIALLY IF THIS PLAYER IS BY FAR THE BEST EVER. Maradona barely scored more than 20 goals a season. 50+ was in his dreams.
Stop messi, then barca have to use their plan B.
Evra- still suffering rightly so from trauma from the world cup, as france's captain. Muppet of a person. hope he continues falling.
Carrick- Played as well as he could. This is carrick. If you gave him a pen and a paper- he wouldn't be able to mark the paper.
Giggs- in the uk media for affair. Got other things on his mind.
valencia/fabio- inexperience. Overwhelmed by the whole thing, and didn't know what else to do.
chicharito- so many games in united colours he's flagged offside around 10+ times. Not good enough.
Manu had no midfield. So rio/vds played the long ball tactic. Barca attacked in an inverted arrow head- couldn't really get past rio/vidic. So messi and villa's goals came from outside the box and pedro nearly missed his- he's lucky VDS didn't have his best game.
peps barca team (2008+) is the best footballing side ever. They developed messi. Hope they continue like this.
Manchester united didn't win the english premier league. Alex ferguson did.