[Irvin_007]

revenge is a dish best served cold.

[chucka]

Lets nail them, WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hairy Potter]

our boys have tasted it last year and are hungry for it again. i just get the feeling that barca are dodgy at the back. the catalonians are a joy to watch going forward, but suspect in defence. One shot on target all night at stamford bridge. Rio and Vidic and VDS will be a much tougher proposition.

[chucka]

Let's really take it too them

This post has been edited by chucka: 06 May 2009 - 10:52 PM

[Metaphysical]

I fear rooney vs. puyol. el capitan falls over a lot.

and ronaldo vs. our back-line. he is FAST and is hitting form.

on the plus side, without fletcher they'll have no one to shadow xavi (although I guess they could use anderson but he's not as dogged).

and after that semi-final win we've GOT to be pumped to win it.

we've both destroyed the patterns. united as champs went beyond the 1st KO round, and we've beat the team that beat the team that beat real madrid!

[Hairy Potter]

Anderson will try to stick to xavi like s*it to a blanket. although, he does tend to go a.w.o.l sometimes joining in with the attack. he is a ball winner, but likes to go box-to-box when he should just be sitting and breaking up the play. probably not, but O'shea can play there. not the quickest but a tough competitor and a ball winner.

[Irvin_007]

Mart24, on May 6 2009, 06:34 PM, said:

Puyol------Toure-----Pique----Sylvinho

-------------Busquets or Keita

That would be my guess. I dunno, but I dont really trust Caceres in this one.

Pep did not play Caceres simply because Caceres did not have time (8 days?) to properly prepare for this match. With three weeks between now and the CL Final, look for Pep to play Caceres and see if he will be ready for ManUtd.

[Impeh!]

eto/messi really need to turn it on

fear slightly for our defence against ronaldo but if hes playing down the middle i think toure could do a good job :]


-excited-

[El Wardo]

considering the referee will be different from tonight's game, I say Man Utd takes this one 3-0.

[blaugrana_909]

I predict 3-2 barca!

[blaugrana_909]

Henry--------------Eto'o-----------------Messi

--------------Iniesta----------Xavi----------

-----------------Toure---------------

Sylvinho-------Puyol-----------Pique-------Caceras

------------------Valdes-----------------------

We really need Toure in midfield, as admirably as he did as a CB today. Our midfield just doesn't tick when he's not there. I would totally risk Caceras at RB and play Toure back as DM so that Iniesta and Xavi can actually run the show. Unlike today when Keita and Busquets were trying to be superstars and running up the field leaving Xavi to play as DM for long periods of the game. That's not what we need at all.

Also if Eto'o isn't back in form by then, I'm going to kill someone!

[yusuf423]

as irv said cacares will have time to prepare for this one, not too sure about playing sylvinho but i guess we will have no choice.

I would like to play:

?-------Puyol-----pique------cacares but I cant figure out who to play at RB so another option is

Puyol----Cacares----pique------sylvinho or swap puyol and cacares.

[Irvin_007]

the MUFC fans seem to think that they'll steamroll us in the finals. Interesting. I'll wait until the Osasuna match to see who Pep will play and how we will play.

[yusuf423]

they should be the favorite but they had an easier time than us getting to the final so we are battle tested but we have problems with our back 4, if alves and marequez were playing I say we take them confidently but with those injuries we are weak in the back. Next season we must have at least 4 CB available to the first team to avoid this sort of problem hapenning again.

[blaugrana_909]

^ you can't "prepare" for things like this. let's face it. alves was stupid, and abidal was unlucky. these aren't things that can be prepared for.

as far as sylvinho goes, i think he has to play. and puyol just needs to play some low key games in CB to get his confidence back. caceras is much less of a risk at RB than CB, so I would definitely play caceras out wide and el capitan in the center.

united fans can think what they want. they are basing it off what they saw today, when we had all our players in the wrong positions. even if alves and abidal are out of the final, i still think that if we play our starting midfield and offense, we have a good good chance against united.