Yo Soccer fans

After watching the Champion league final between Man Utd vs Barcelona, I decided to write some comment on the match itself. (I watched the replay xD).

Let’s congratulate Barcelona first for their treble this season, they had done fantastically well and really this is probably one of their best season in their history.

Barcelona put up a 4-3-3 formation which considerably a attacking formation with Messi, Eto’o and Heny up front. They started quite nervously and almost let in a goal when Victor Valdes almost slips the ball from C.Ronaldo free kick lucky for Pique to clear it out. The first 10 minutes, Barcelona did not play up their standard but they got the lead at 10 mintues, Xavi skipped through M.Carrick challenge and pass to Eto’o which was at the righ flank, Eto’o went pass Vidic way too easily and took a shot which eventually went into net . Vidic and Van Der Sar had to be blame for conceding this goal.
After conceding early goal, Man Utd did not respone back quickly and through the first half, it was all almost Barcelona trying to score a second goal. Park and Anderson did not have a good game. Man Utd went into the first half with a goal behind.

Second half saw a Sir Alex Ferguson bringing out Tevez to replace Anderson, this prove to be a rather risky choice as they now played a more attacking formation M.Carrick alone did not have tha ability to guard both inestia and Xavi. Although Man Utd did try to create a few chances and Pique really did a geat job in handling Man Utd attack. Man Utd defensive problem prove to be a costly, at 70 minutes, Man Utd didn’t clear the ball well, Xavi uses this opportunity to make a cross to Messi which is unmark and Messi made not mistake in heading the ball into the net. This is his first goal against an English club for almost 12 matches.
Man Utd Sir Alex Ferguson perhaps had made a wrong deicision in his starting line-up, he should not start Park and Anderson. They are both good players but was rather inconsistent, He should start Paul Scholes which had tons of experience in hadling big matches, starting Tevez is also a more suitable choice rather then Park.
Suggested line-up

I think this would be a much better choice then starting Rooney alone in the up front. Second mistake made by Man Utd is that they did not really guard Xavi well, Carrick should guard Xavi closely to prevent him from having the space to make a pass or cross which would threaten Man Utd.
Although Barcelona won, but they did a mistake in starting up 4-3-3 formation which I think would be rather dangerous choice provided Man Utd played to their best, Man Utd is best at counter attack and Barcelona would count themselves lucky that Man Utd was slightly off-form on that day. One thing did exactly well for Barcelona is keeping C.Ronaldo quiet. Puyol did a very good job in marking C.Ronaldo, he never allow Ronaldo to run freely much often and this make Ronaldo quite fustrated on the pitch .LOL.