BARCELONA players that have made Spanish Football History in
being the first & only team to date to win the “Big 3” – La Liga,
Spanish Cup & European Cup – in one season. Tonight FC BARCELONA
won MANCHESTER UNITED 2-0 in the Final of the 2009 Champions
League to finish its season with the highest accolade in European
Football.
Manchester United started strong, surprising everyone with its
attacking Football that nearly paid off. The first 9 minutes were
all Manchester with its star CRISTIANO RONALDO having many chances
but not being able to materialize them into valuable goals. Then the
10th min,with a run away INIESTA that opened the English defence
to give SAMUEL ETO´O the ball who “split in half” Vidic to poke in
Barça´s 1ºst goal that gave his team confidence & braked totally the
Manchester push to bring in doubts into their game. This was the
key!
See VIDEO of Samuel Eto´o 10th min goal:
From here Manchester United went into a defensive mode that
allowed FC Barcelona to develop its natural touch ball game which
frankly drove crazy the English team. Cristiano Ronaldo showed
class & kept on trying but his star went dimmer with time as a
“one man show” is difficult to maintain when you have in front
of you a team. So much so that he was totally frustrated towards
the end reflecting the attitude of his team.
The 2ºhalf was a Barça riot, it was a scandal & Barça could have
put in 4 goals which they missed in the first 10-15 mins. These
misses gave Manchester ideas that perhaps they could equalize
& made substitutions to go all out for the attack – Tevez, Berbatov
& Scholes. However that was risky as this left holes in the
Manchester defence that Barça exploited via a brilliant XAVI
HERNANDEZ pass that found the head of MESSI who scored his
teams 2º goal & his 9th for the Champions!.That was the nail in the
Manchester coffin, especially after a minute later Barça goalie Valdes
saved a Ronaldo shot. Here onwards the English team allowed itself
to be dominated & watched as FC Barcelona showed why this
season they have shown the Best Style of Football & are now the
Best Team in The World.
See VIDEO of the MESSI 70th min goal:
Special mentions here must go out to THIERRY HENRY who finally
gets his European Cup, to SYLVINHO who was awarded for his
outstanding professional career, to Captain PUYOL who leads by
example, MESSI who know takes over as the Best Player in The World,
ETO´O breaking records & scoring, PIQUE maturing into an outstanding
World Class player, TOURE, XAVI, INIESTA - amazing, VALDES was
great, BUSQUETS - revelation,KEITA…& the rest. Finally Coach
JOSEP - PEP - GUARDIOLA an amazing achievement that will go down
in history & his career has just began!
Well done, its Barça´s 3ºrd European Cup. Spanish Football, thanks
to Barça, is back up on Top.
2 comments:
very outstanding team...with excellent players...
Congratulations from an Englishman to Spain on their World Cup win. I am jealous :-)
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