The defeat at Stamford bridge was a bitter one.Fouls and cards following all around and still Chelski’ walks out neat.The Evra case is still been looked into and not still sure why the fights went on.Many think it was the racial comments that pushed the Frenchman to head into a quarrel.
A video-tape is taken into as an evident and Chelsea-United both will be taking a close eye on this. The London Press has already declared that United were the ones who started the fight and bull shits which is not the first time.We have been getting with this along long time and now it doesn’t matter much.
Apart from that injury with Rooney might be looking a serious one.Nothing is sure about his fitness and i doubt him playing at Trafford against Barca.The story with Vida isn’t that hard.He only had concussion and a single tooth broken.As such no one can guarantee will United risk these both against Barca or rest them for EPL.Its a big dilemma which Fergie has to come out.Fergie could have rested Rooney and taken Ronaldo on that.It has happened many times with us.When we go mighty close its that time when we start spilling our fortune.Things start to become shaky.But i still think we can manage out of that.
Barca on other hand are completely out of Spanish Premier. Villa and Real both winning with their games have thrashed Barca of the race and now Champions league is their only silver ware remaining.
Guys its going to be tough night at OT.I cant wait for that.
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It was obvious to all watching the first leg that Barcelona dominated possession. They had 42′ 39” of ball possession compared to just 26′ 10” for Man Utd, possessing the ball for 61% of the time to Man Utd’s 39%. The home team stacked up 16 shots, 8 on target, compared to the away team’s 5 shots, 1 on target. And to all those saying Barcelona did not have any great chances, you are wrong. Samuel Eto’o missed a very good opportunity and later stayed on his feet when falling would have surely won his team a penalty, plus his team had plenty of free-kicks in very dangerous positions.
There are a number of approaches to taking on Barcelona, two of which revolve around Xavi: one is to attempt to prevent him from getting on the ball, leaving other areas open; another is to let him have the ball but limit his passing options by shutting down wing play and Deco in the attacking central role. The other options, which are too risky, are to play like Man Utd did in the first leg and keep 8 defenders on the field while letting Barcelona dominate possession or to attack them and have an end to end game, which again is too risky.
The approach to Xavi is the key. I think a better approach than packing the centre is to prevent passing options, something Schalke did, thus letting Barcelona have slightly more possession but removing their domination of possession and the effectiveness of this. Is this not packing the defence? No because it gives you more possession than you would otherwise have to place Barcelona under pressure, thus giving you more time to expose their defensive weaknesses, something Man Utd can do probably better than any other team in the world. Why is this better than preventing Xavi from getting the ball? Schalke showed one can have possession against Barcelona. Why take a risk against something that has worked? Imitate Schalke’s style - Man Utd have a much better attack than Schalke so them having similar possession to Schalke will translate into much more than what Schalke achieved.
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