CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI FINAL - 1º LEG - 2008: FC BARCELONA 0 - MANCHESTER UNITED 0

The City of Barcelona stopped along with half of Spain as FC
BARCELONA
played MANCHESTER UNITED in the 1º leg

of their home & away semi final games in the CHAMPIONS
LEAGUE.

















The end result is a 0-0 draw that makes the 2º leg game at
Manchester the decider. Who played better? Depends on what

side of the fence your on. Manchester started strong & was awarded
an early penalty which CRISTIANO RONALDO missed as the
image
above shows us.

If Ronaldo had scored it could have changed the course of the whole
match, as one can figure by the look on Ronaldo´s face by the image

below, after his miss.
























FC Barcelona then recovered from the shock & began to get its
play together. The team recovered its composure while the English
team s attacks were each time less effective.

But here, a Barça fan would conclude that his team let of the hook
a struggling Manchester as it failed to convert its many chances to

knock out & put on the canvass United.




















As the clock ticked, & specially in the 2º half, Barça was running over
a confused & impotent Manchester, as the chances rained down on
Barça who just could not get the ball into the English net. SAMUEL
ETO´O along with TOURE , just to mention two, looked to the sky
in an
attempt to find reasons for not scoring.

If the game was only 45 minutes & the 2º half, Barça was the clear
winner.
























But it was´nt , it was 90 mins game were this match was one half of
the
whole & both live to fight another day - at Manchester next week.

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