The 2008-2009 Champion League final between Manchester United and Barcelona was game to see to believe, Barcelona had a make shift defence as Abidal was wrongly suspended and Alaves was also out.Manchester was in full strength.
But what we and Ferguson saw was something that does not happen to Manchester or Alex Ferguson often,They were shattered and battered to a pulp, and Fergusons thoughts went back 15 years back when Barcelona and Johan Cruiffs golden boys thrashed them.For the first eight minutes Barcelona were a bit nervousand Christiano Ronaldo had a freekick saved by Valdez as it slipped hecaught it on the rebounce,Then they Spanish giants got up from their nap and Manchester went in for theirsthe first goal came in the 10th minute by Samuel Etoo, then with Henry, Etoo andMessi making wave after waves of attackss, and Xavi and Inesta the brain and their slick passing in the centre kept the game . Ferguson saw the 45minutes rather nervously, he brought in Carlos Tevez for the start of the second half, but it was the same old story, then Giggs was replaced by Paul Scholes and Berbatov replaced Park,but there was no improvement in Manchesters play, they ran out of energy and ideas, Xavi hit the the woodwork with a free kick, was one goal enough.? But the second goal came in the 70th minute , as Xavi kicked the ball and little Messi jumped high in the air to head the ball in a corner of the net. Then the Manchester United Players started loosing their heads and also their discipline, they made bad tacles and Vidic, Scholes and Ronaldo were
shown the yellow card each.
Messi gave Evraand Rio Ferdinand a horrid time,Evra should take this as a lesson, he made fun of Arsenal saying the team were boys playing with men, here a small boy gave him hell and now sleepless nights.
Things do not look good at Manchester United Tevez was not on the private jet booked by the team, and Ronaldo may move to Real Madrid.
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