I dislike barca but last night was a fun watch because

barca didn't resort to cheating (didn't need to)

they absolutely dicked on united so very humbling

evra was piss poor

van der sar cocked up on their second

funny seeing guys like park and Valencia run out of puff

I watched it with three united fans

it brings to a close this rotten season

Right now, I really hate football. The Barcelona wankfest is unbearable. People who don't know shit about football and usually don't care are all raving about those catalan cunts. Pundits drooling over Xavi and Iniesta playing 10 one touch passes between them in the middle of the park without going anywhere, it's sickening.

United were awful. Always dropping off Xavi and Iniesta and allowing them all the time they need on the ball. Luckily for them, Iniesta's passing was about as good as Diaby's on the night. Xavi, well they didn't have as much good luck with him.

Messi is just unbelievable though. His close control and acceleration is out of this world. He's responsible of about 75 per cent of their attacking brilliance alone.

The Barca love is in overdrive alright.
Even people whom I know never watch la Liga and have only seen Barca play a handful of CL games are telling me that they are the greatest team to ever grace the world of football.

I'm not going to argue that they weren't superb last night or that they've not been untouchable for most of the season but this over the top glorification of them is just stretching things too far.

They are the best in Europe at the moment - just leave it at that.

United were well and truly exposed for being the mediocre bunch that they are.
Last night reminded me again just how much we threw it all away this season.

haha, my brother texted me last night 'What a win! The greatest team ever!"

He only started following football when he moved to Spain 9 years ago.

Ricky1985 wrote:

Clrnc wrote:

Some stats before the match.

-Each side won the European cup 3 times

-Total Squad Cost. Barca 177m : Man Utd 398m

-Club Valuation. Barca 1b : Man Utd 1.8b

Is that the cost of tonight's 18 man squad, or is it including the 10 or so other players that didn't make the match squad?

Includes the 10 or so, otherwise wouldn't have such huge figures. Basically is the whole squad cost, plus every other fringe players.

As much as Barcelona's arrogant players infuriate me, I would be mad to deny the brilliance of yesterday's performance. They had about 70% possession, but this wasn't their typical lateral passing. Due to United's lack of midfield anything, Barca just kept zipping forward, cutting them up at will. That Xavi pass for the first goal was mint, and the other two finishes were top quality.

3 titles in 6 years. This is a team at the top. just for these few days I'll suspend my hate

Barca were much better in both of their ties against us.

They had more possession and created more chances, but as we've seen so often, it doesn't guarantee a win in a football game. We won the first game and might have well gone through in the tie if Busacca hadn't fucked us over.

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood your post Captain. Thought I read 'they we're much better than us' at first. Having read it again, I agree with you.

They were much better than us for three halves of football. I remember people on this forum suggesting it was our plan to play deep against them, but even Wenger came out to say we hadn't planned to be pinned back that badly. The ridiculous van Persie decision just distracts people from the fact that we were played right off the park that day.

If by 'played off the park' you mean they passed the ball around in midfield without causing us too many problems, you're right. They hardly carved us open like they did in the first half of that 2-2 draw a year back.

Also, after the OG, we slowly but steadily started to come out of our shell, stringing a few passes together and starting to get over the halfway line. Just like in the previous two home games against them, we were under a lot of pressure in the beginning, but finished the game strongly. This time though, the referee duly killed off any chances we had of repeating that.

Best team I've ever seen.

I don't know where people get this version of the 2nd leg where we didn't look overwhelmed. 17 attempts to 0.

First half we defended brilliantly. The best I've seen from us in 5 or more years. Cesc's back-heel let them back in, and then van Persie's sending off finished us off.

But we at least looked like scoring, right?

Better touch from Bendtner and Barca would have been sent packing. That's not domination.

Well we did score, and we would have scored again if it was Eto'o, or some other top striker, we had up front and not Nicklas fucking Bendtner. The fine margins, Cal.

Tim wrote:

Best team I've ever seen.

Same. I really don't understand why some find that opinion to be so outrageous or infuriating.

Messi has 3 CL wins already and he's only 23. Unreal.