Final Champions League 2008/09


Stadion Olimpico, Rome
Massimo Busacca (SWI)
20:45

:Barca:

--------Barcelona:---------
--------------Valdés----------
----Puyol-Touré-Piqué-Sylvinho
------Busquets-Xavi-Iniesta---
Messi------Eto’o-----Henry---

----------CONTRA--------------

:Manu:

----Manchester United----
---------Van der Sar--------
O’Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra
-Park-Anderson-Carrick-Giggs-
------Ronaldo--- Rooney-----

Common, Im suprised nobody else opened this thread days ago.

In the end I still want Barca to win, I always liked/loved barca,it isnt my first team and I couldnt call myself a big fan but the Dutch invested barca always had my interest. So I hope they'll win.

But because my team got robbed against barca , not by Barca but yet, and some barca fans acted like idiots, I wouldnt be as annoyed if Manu would walk away with it.

I say Barca has the best chanse and it can be a big win for barca 3-1, 2-0 etc, a small manu win 1-0 or a draw and overtime win either way, or draw and penalties.

This seriously could go eiter way but with the immense rape of big teams this season, not only by barca and mostly on real :D, I think barca could pull a suprise and dominate the game. But they also have a defense thats hurt so dont know.

When in Rome do like the romans do, I hope the barca players dont have knowledge about this saying otherwise they might get trashed 7-2 :D

Common Barca make Ronaldo cry once more :D

:Barca:

-Game begon.

-Free-Kick

-Valdes with a tough save, gets back to the pitch, barca defenders blocks rebound Park, corner, rooney tries volley, way wide.

-Manu trying to have the same record as Ajax in the 70's, Cl/Europa cup 1 winner and National Leage winner in 2 consecutave years.

-Ronaldo with a shot, trying to replicate his shot against Porto, shot wide.

-Manu with the better start.

-Ronaldo shot wide.

-Barca goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal.

ETogo' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAL

Easy goal though.

-Messi big chance after barca corner, could have scored, missed the ball.

-Carrick with a pass to Etogoal, manu kinda shaken now.

-Pique Yellow card, Pique might score today, Ronaldo/Manu free-kick.

-Giggs free kick over.

-I think its hard to top the Chelsea-Pool 4-4 game and that was the best game this season but the game not over yet, but the guys just seem full of pressure.

-Messi shot just over.

-Brilliant attack by manu, park against Alves, Alves comming out and has the ball.

-Alves injured.

-Barca starting their passing game, slowly but surely.

-Barca free-kick.

Xavi FK just wide

-LOL Messi owned three players and got the free kick, they should have given advantage to barca, wow he owned big time.

-Having toure in the defence has its plus sides also, a defender with good passing abilities.

-I wonder if Manu would have been in the final had they met teams like chelsea, pool and barca before the final.

-Putting Messi as the central striker is a good move by Pep.

-Manu cant even stop these guys with tackles and fouls, LOL, well they arent Chelsea.

-Toure going forward, Puyol cross, barca corner, first corner nothing, second corner Pique just missed.

-Busquets has given a couple of bad passes already, worst barca player although probably better than most manu players this game :D

-Carrick nice pass, Valdez comming out far out his own area, has the ball.

-Valdez in good form lately anyway, despite his mistakes earlier this season.

-LOL messi just walked past alot of manu players but there was nobody forward to recieve his cross.

-Barca players just chillin, the pressure seems to be off them completly.

Half time, Alex needs a very good half time talk bc manu sucks ass at the moment, LOL at the supposedly anti-football by CHelsea, LOL eat your freaking words :Letseat: If you have played defence and you have seen barca play, then you know how hard it was to do what chelsea did, but we get robbed all the time anyway , just like the players in Pool but they get robbed literaly, apperenty we are hard to beat.

-Tevez in for Anderson, lets say Manu increased their chance, I think really highly of tevez.

-Btw Platini anounced that from next year the CL final will be played on saterday so everyone will be able to watch.

-Nice pass Xavi on Henry, Henry outplays Rio and Sar saves. Good chance

-Eto'o trough pass to messi, messi just missed the ball, might have gotten a pull.

-Iniesta walks trough the manu midd, as if it was nothing, Barca free kick, foul tevez.

-Messi didnt get pulled shown in replay.

-Xavi Fk hits the post.

-Manu getting a bit better and starting to pass.

-ROoney cross, Ronaldo close and Park just missed a header

-Match doesnt come near the match between Pool and Chelsea, so far from being match of the century or whatever. Also agree that barca is the best team this season, but disagree that they are the best team ever or anything like that, the Chelsea game showed me that much, if you are good you have to be able to crush anyone, anytime, any kinda play.

-Berba looks to come on. Park probably will get out dont know though.

-The ref pulling some sprints.

-Henry shot, Sar save.

-Park out > Berba in.

-First Korean in the CL final, maybe even first asian dont know for sure.

-I have good hopes on Ronaldo crying, I should have bet although there was a big chance anyway so not much return.

-Rooney vs Messi, Messi wins.

-If it remains 1-0 then Manu keeps having a chance.

-Lol Messi scores, hahhaha

-I was typing that manu still have a chance, hahhahha, chance my ass, You suck ahhaha, brilliant header. Cry Ronaldo CRY.

-Crowd chanting, Messi ... Messiii ... Henry out Keita in

-Henry diserves the CL trophy too, especially with the team that he lost against in the final.

-Ronaldo almost with a goal, Big chance.

-Ronaldo foul on Puyol, barca free kick.

-Wow Puyol almost scored, VDS saves.

-Damn he did that artisticly, Puyol that is.

-Giggs out Scholes in if Im not mistaken, missed the sub.

-Yellow Ronaldo, Xavi talking to ronaldo, Ronaldo should Cry.

-Scholes Yellow card, should have been a red maybe, Scholes with his red hair knows how to get red cards so it wouldnt have been weird.

-Messi's goal was a real Beaut.

-Puyol should have scored, what a brilliant attack.

-Puyol injured.

-Kinda sad that there arent any dutch players though, but there playing style is Dutch atleast.

-Boring game. Were is Chelsea when you need them ;) Or Pool for that matter, even a madrid rape would have atleast been funny, although Many getting joked is funny also.

-Iniesta out > Pedro Rodriguez/Pedrito in

-Vidic yellow, EPL champions but not best Epl team, lets say third best.


-Barca win the CL, thanks go to CHelsea and Norway.

-And Of course, they do have a brilliant team, Pep showed himself a brilliant coach and barca is the best team this season. And Ronaldo is crying, ah how nice, give the kid a popsicle and a nice dress.

-Manu couldnt match Ajax's record, all the better Ajax has better History anyway.

barca absolutely bossed man u. a very well deserved victory

Top scorers » (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/statistics/players/typestat=gs/index.html)

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Assists » (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/statistics/players/typestat=a/index.html)

http://www.uefa.com/ml/images/players/ucl/85x128/95665.jpg<table class="playerStatPhoto"><tbody><tr class="on"><td class="value">6</td><td class="player">Franck Ribéry (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=95665/index.html)</td><td class="club">Bayern</td></tr><tr class="off"><td class="value">6</td><td class="player">Xavi Hernández (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=35018/index.html)</td><td class="club">Barcelona</td></tr><tr class="on"><td class="value">5</td><td class="player">Cesc Fàbregas (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=70072/index.html)</td><td class="club">Arsenal</td></tr><tr class="off"><td class="value">5</td><td class="player">Lionel Messi (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=95803/index.html)</td><td class="club">Barcelona</td></tr><tr class="on"><td class="value">5</td><td class="player">Frank Lampard (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=31609/index.html)</td><td class="club">Chelsea</td></tr><tr class="off"><td class="value">4</td><td class="player">Anders Due (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=250002226/index.html)</td><td class="club">AaB</td></tr><tr class="on"><td class="value">4</td><td class="player">Juninho Pernambucano (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=61534/index.html)</td><td class="club">Lyon</td></tr><tr class="off"><td class="value">4</td><td class="player">Raul Meireles (http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/players/player=53743/index.html)</td><td class="club">Porto</td></tr></tbody></table>

LOL at Silvio Berlusconi kidding with the players, you always forget this guy is actually the leader of a country :D

Congrats too barca and the fans.

LOL @ Berlusconi.

Anyway, deserved win for Barca. Sorry Behrooz jan, but "Liverpool always win in Rome" :D.

Players who won the Europa Cup as player and coach:

Miguel Muñoz
As Player: Real Madrid (1956, 1957), As coach: Real Madrid (1960, 1967)

Giovanni Trapattoni
As Player: AC Milan (1963, 1969), As coach: Juventus (1985)

Johan Cruijff
As Player: Ajax (1971, 1972, 1973), As coach: Barcelona (1992)

Carlo Ancelotti
As Player: AC Milan (1989, 1990), As coach: AC Milan (2003, 2007)

Frank Rijkaard
As Player: AC Milan (1989, 1990), Ajax (1995), As coach: Barcelona (2006)

And Now;

Josep Guardiola
As Player: Barcelona (1992), As coach: Barcelona (2009)

Also pep is the youngest coach winning a treble being just 38.

Best 4 IMO
1.Barca
2.Chelsea(with Hiddink)
3.Pool
4.Manu

We were nowhere near our usual self.

Congrats Barca.

Congrats to Barca. This season they were the best team in Europe and last night after the first 10 minutes they were quite comfortable.

United were below par. I knew this because usually the team that wins its semi final convincingly loses the final, the one that squeezes through wins the final. The omens were there. United perhaps went in there thinking they are favourites and they didn't prepare for what they would do if they conceded early. I heard Pepe Guardiola say this is what happened to them in 94 when they lost 4-0 to Milan. They went in there thinking they were favourites and hadn't prepared well mentally.

Anyway, congrats to Westi and other Barca fans we know.

I have a sore head and a terrible hangover.

big up to ManU fans...early minute goal for you and things would have been different but oh well, since Evra and Ronaldo are not really the nicest people on earth, I can't say I felt bad for them.
I might have felt a bit sorry for Sir Alex though, because he is a class apart of any manager.

Anyway..this is all too good to be true....I don't know what it is though...just too good to be true. This was all a bonus....they should build a statue outside Camp Nou for Pep and Cruyff...Pep is The Chosen One.

Kam paydayee Mahdi joon. We definitely wouldn't mind seeing much more of you around here. Let the force be with you. :)

BTW, this win takes SPAIN ahead of the rest in the number of cup wins (12) while England and Italy are second place with 11. A nice tid-bit from ESPN of all places.

Yeah congrats Alex Sosa. It wasnt the match everybody hoped it would be, atleast the unbiased viewer.

Eventhough the semi's didnt go like I wished, you know I have nothing against barca and with the dutch background I have always kept a close eye and ofcourse my fav team in spain, I was just unhappy that you just needed to kick us out effectively. Anyway after everything you still deserved it, just the best team in Europe/world this whole season. Hats off to Pep and he doesnt even take (full) credit for it either. I also think the second best player in the world after messi is Iniesta, I was already impressed by him against chelsea and before but I think he is above Ronaldo also, not just bc I dont like ronaldo.

Btw did you go to see the match in Rome?

I heard Pepe Guardiola say this is what happened to them in 94 when they lost 4-0 to Milan. They went in there thinking they were favourites and hadn't prepared well mentally.Anyway, congrats to Westi and other Barca fans we know.


Behrooz jan I don't think, that was the case with Man U. Beeing too comfortable and feeling like favourits against Barca??? this Barca? Even though I dislike Fergy, I guess he is just too smart and KNOWS this Barca is not a team you would F*** with. I actually think Man U did all they could, and as Alejandro said, if they had scored in the 1st min, then we had another story. After Eto'os chaman-bazi vs Vidic and the early goal, Man U just lost it mentally and even the old "God of coaching" couldn't do jack to get them back on the track. Besic facts and one of the most enjoyable things in football,...specialy when the outcome goes your way ;)
btw. Khasteh nabashi dadash. Shabemoono saakhtid. Shabe be yaad maandani ;)