snowdrops:

tell me its april first

Nah man its actually the 29th of may, so no jokes. Want to beat Barca, you have to "BEAT" them literally !

snowdrops:

why u dey tease them again now??/

you want make them burst tears? the one wey dem don cry yesterday don do ooo.

if not for internet this your statement fit cause fight physically

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WE CHELSEA FANS ARE GREATFUL TO BARCA FOR TEACHING THAT FOOLISH MAN-U FOOTBALL

Even Newcastle United would have performed better [/size]

stats from yesterday:

BARCELONA                                                                                       MANCHESTER UNITED

16                                            SHOTS                                                       3
12                                            ON TARGET                                                1
6                                              CORNERS                                                   0
5                                              FOULS                                                       16
2                                              YELLOWS                                                   2
0                                              REDS                                                          0

68%                                         POSSESSION                                             32%

Valencia must have committed at least 50% of united`s fouls.
Don't have the stats for offsides, but Hernandez could have been mistaken for a Pippo inzaghi.
Pity Berbatov; but i am sure he would not mind too much for not being part of this humiliating defeat. He would be off next season anyway.

chelseabmw:

Ehnnnnnn

I be just wan know if dey sleep well or not

So many manutd fans still dey sleep

after that kind spanking , i can imagine the kind nightmares them go suffer last night.

Breaking News: Ryan Giggs has taken out a superinjunction to prevent today's papers from publishing yesterday's result.

Immediately I saw the line ups, I knew Man U must chop cane.

their line up no too surprise me. It was what most of us expected. Infact i predict this lineup before the match.

the thing is man u, is good but barca is excellent. even if man u use 10 years take prepare, they were destined to lose.

snowdrops:

after that kind spanking , i can imagine the kind nightmares them go suffer last night.

I doubt their nightmares would be that bad, if they survived what happened last night, they can withstand any form of torment.

you guys can now appreciate the torture the other la liga clubs have been going true and in particular the dilemma of Jose mourinho. how can any team in the Spanish league dream of the title with this barca team also competing.

Jose better fall on his sword and move to man city or back to Chelsea, because barca is getting the treble again.

What is special about this barca team that they keep on tormenting top teams? Abi the football standards has fallen so low and there are no longer good footballers around? Na wa o!

What is special about this barca team that they keep on tormenting top teams? Abi the football standards has fallen so low and there are no longer good footballers around? Na wa o!

Who no go, No, No! In other words, if you have ever played football then you would understand.

snowdrops:

after that kind spanking , i can imagine the kind nightmares them go suffer last night.

lol. . . . oh e dey pain
when dem dey beat chelsea home and away e dey sweet dem
They never Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴͡ anything yet

Barca can only be beaten if JM comes †̥ either chelsea or man city. . . . . Both teams r physical and got the players †̥ do the damage
Maybe by then fernado torres will be ˚☺k° upstairs

J12:

What is special about this barca team that they keep on tormenting top teams? Abi the football standards has fallen so low and there are no longer good footballers around? Na wa o!

barca make good teams look ordinary. they make fantastic players look like amateurs. they made rooney appear like a league 2 player and ryan giggs every bit of his 37 years.

As long as Barca has the HOLY TRINITY of XAVI, INIESTA and MESSI, forget it.

They are unplayable, unstoppable.

When you play barcelona, you can either play with 8 defenders like Madrid did and lose or play with a view to attack as Man u did but still lose.

the truth of the matter is fergie got it wrong, i always expected us to use the formation that we used but i did not expect to see carrick and giggs start together, that was the mistake i believe. the strategy last night was to apply pressure from the flanks and creativity from the middle but i believe that the pressure should have come from the middle and the creativity from the flanks as is our regular style. even an off form fletcher or anderson would have done a better job for us in terms of applying pressure centrally. carrick was really poor in terms of positionally protecting the defence plus he is so easy to dribble and a big time bottler when the going gets tough.

i cant comprehend this part of what you said, surely it is no achievment to make a 37 year old look 37? wats fantastic about that?? and of all united players yesterday Rooney was the one who mainted his class, do league 2 players score quality goals against a top team in the champions league final when their team is already one goal down?

COME ON BRO!!!!! How can't you get that?

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1716/champions-league/2011/05/28/2507695/thank-you-barcelona-for-the-performance-of-a-decade

Thank you, Barcelona, for the performance of a decade
The European Cup is heading back to Catalonia after a fantastic 3-1 win at Wembley. Goal.com's chief editor salutes Pep Guardiola's men for raising the bar yet again
By Ewan Macdonald

Sir Alex Ferguson promised us the final of the decade as his Manchester United side prepared to meet Barcelona in the Champions League final. Come 10pm on Saturday, it was clear that he'd been as good as his word. His United side had showed sufficient spirit that they could leave the pitch proud. Yet such was their opponents' brilliance that all too often they appeared as mere props in a piece of footballing theatre directed and played out by the Spanish giants. It was Barcelona's performance that made this final what it was. They made it a timeless classic - again.

It was timeless not in that it was unique, but rather in the sense that it was a beautiful, archetypal example of the Barcelona style. Passing, possession, the odd flash of genius - we know it by now and we could recognise it anywhere. But to pull it off in a final against a side led by one of the game's greatest ever coaches - for the second time in three years - is something bound to live long in the memory, too.

And they did it with the pressure well and truly on. You could argue that in the past - even in recent months, against Real Madrid - they have played better football, but the circumstances were really quite different. In a country long since unfriendly to them - 1992 aside, Barcelona's record on English soil is really quite mixed - with the weight of the favourites mantle weighing them down, with Carles Puyol consigned to the bench, with the regular players rusty after an anti-climactic end to the season, anything could have happened. Ninety minutes later, with United left wondering quite what had happened, it was clear that what actually did transpire was something very special indeed.

GOOD NIGHT

Lionel Messi
Goal.com's man of the match. His goal wasn't quite the world-class stunner we normally expect of him, but his overall performance was as important as that of 2009.

Pep Guardiola
Wherever his future takes him, be it now, next year, or beyond, there is no doubting that now Guardiola can be mentioned in the same breath as Cruyff and others like him. Whoever gains his services after Barcelona can look forward to the arrival of a world-class coach.

Eric Abidal
It sounds like something out of a story book, but as anyone who's weathered serious illness and surgery can tell you, in fact it's all too real. After recovering from his liver drama, Abidal donned the armband and lifted the trophy aloft. No less than he deserves.

BAD NIGHT

Chicharito
A bitterly disappointing evening for the gifted Mexican. When left alone up front he could only be caught offside: when Rooney moved forward the Englishman stole the show with a great goal.

Edwin van der Sar
For such a long and storied career to end on this note is unjust. Edwin must carry with him to retirement a small amount of the blame for the margin of defeat, with the second goal looking especially suspect from his perspective.

Dimitar Berbatov
This one's going to run and run: left out of the matchday squad - failing even to make the bench - rumour has it that the Bulgarian left Wembley before kick-off, ensuring that any hope he had of remaining a United player was extinguished for good.

Worth Celebrating

But bizarrely, what was special was at the same time almost run-of-the-mill. It's simply the case that Barcelona's style of play has grown so regular, so 'theirs', that it doesn't need describing or recognising.

In this sense football viewers of the world are spoilt. That we can complain about "Barcelona overload", or grumble at the amount of fulsome praise on websites like these and in newspapers across the globe, sees the Blaugrana become a victim of their own success.

Take a step back from context, though, and simply watch the game on the pitch, and suddenly the beauty comes flooding back.

Barcelona weathered a difficult opening 10 minutes. They saw far less of the ball than they'd like, there were inklings that Fergie's early gambit of playing the long-ball percentage game might just pay off against an uncertain central pairing, and the likes of Pedro were still shaking the rust off their boots.

United must have dared to dream in these early exchanges, yet as Pedro's effort fizzed past the post after a quarter-hour it was already clear that the game was up. The midfield, packed as it was, could neutralise the odd threat but the idea of keeping Barcelona at bay for 90 minutes was simply impossible. Ji-Sung Park chased and harried admirably in the first half, for example, but one jink forward from Dani Alves set the wheels in motion for that chance; Michael Carrick's role of standing off and letting Lionel Messi run into trouble paid only limited dividends.

And, of course, it was Barcelona's individual quality that made the difference. Xavi's through ball was, well, Xavi-esque, Pedro's finish typically brash, and suddenly United - the English champions, one of football's finest units - had it all to do, with Barcelona not having done anything too far out of their ordinary.

The equalising goal - complete with a shade of offside for the otherwise ineffectual Ryan Giggs - showcased the talents of Wayne Rooney, but even the most ardent United fan knew that it couldn't last. Lionel Messi's typical audacity bore fruit with Barcelona's second: his shot wasn't the greatest, but the run forward was certainly exciting, and the fact that he took a blast rather than trying to walk the ball into the net proves that this team does have the predatory touch it's often accused of lacking.

David Villa's goal was the pick of the bunch - a masterful strike, reminiscent of happier times for a forward who has just issued a timely reminder of why he was so often spoken of as the world's best in his role. And, more tellingly, there was nothing, but nothing Manchester United could do about it. Because when Barcelona tick as a unit, they keep the ball; and when they keep the ball they give it to their gifted players; and when their gifted players have the ball it's only a matter of time until one of them does something jaw-dropping.

It really is that simple. The Barcelona style is the perfect combination of the collective and the individual. When it operates at its fullest capacity there is simply nothing to be done. Any progress against it is fleeting, any victory temporary, because it's always ready to start up again. It is to our benefit that its output is so beautiful, because unless something breaks this team up it's here to stay. And for that we have to thank everyone who's made it possible, because Barcelona are the greatest team in the world and one of the greatest to watch that there's ever been.

I personally believe that the reason for barcelona's shine is probably due to the lack of quality footballers in football today. The players on this barca team are just above average (except messi and maybe xavi and inieta). Their tippy-tap style of play is too boring for my eyes.
What is wrong with modern football?

I personally believe that the reason for barcelona's shine is probably due to the lack of quality footballers in football today. The players on this barca team are just above average (except messi and maybe xavi and inieta). Their tippy-tap style of play is too boring for my eyes.
What is wrong with modern football?

Its suppose to stimulate and amuse your[b] brain[/b], not your eyes. Assuming you have one. If you don't like beautiful football, theres always dembe, kick boxing and MMA to watch.

Kgdavid:

the truth of the matter is fergie got it wrong, i always expected us to use the formation that we used but i did not expect to see carrick and giggs start together, that was the mistake i believe. the strategy last night was to apply pressure from the flanks and creativity from the middle but i believe that the pressure should have come from the middle and the creativity from the flanks as is our regular style. even an off form fletcher or anderson would have done a better job for us in terms of applying pressure centrally. carrick was really poor in terms of positionally protecting the defence plus he is so easy to dribble and a big time bottler when the going gets tough.

I don;t think Fergie got it wrong, its just a case of simply the better team won, presently barca's level is way ahead of any other team. Just imagine Nigeria going to war with U.S or NATO

phreakabit:

Assuming you have one. If you don't like beautiful football, theres always dembe, kick boxing and MMA to watch.

You call that shyte beautiful football? You really need to start using your head.  If barca had lost, would you call it beautiful football?

You call that shyte beautiful football? You really need to start using your head. If barca had lost, would you call it beautiful football?

You are not worth a reply my good friend. And no I am not basing my decision on your judgment of Barca. But rather on the slowness of intellectual insight.

The game swallowed Chicharito.

Man U should stop disgracing the English teams.

Sir Alex Ferguson got his tactics wrong and the made the loss more disgraceful. Barcelona meanwhile should establish a university of football so that people from all over the world can learn the fundamentals of such a wonderful art.

ferguson takes al the blame, tactics were wrong, selection was wrong, substitutions were late and the greatest of all the errors was not brining in quality players even when every blind man and his blind dog could see that we needed new players. one definition of madness is doing the same things the same way and expecting a different result, is ferguson mad?