For me, United only played the first 9 mins...
The game started well for them, Barce were very nervous at the
start and United played well... But a string of mistakes led
to Barce's first goal on their first attack... Carrick should have
closed down the Barce player but he didn't... He allowed the guy to
slowly walk into the danger area and didn't challenge him... and
when the pass was made, he didn't follow up to Eto'o... And when
Eto't beat Vidic, he was too late to help cover... And Vds, beaten
at his near post... another bad mistake made resulting in the first
goal...
After the first goal, Barce became confident... and United,
became nervous... At that point, the match was over.
For me, it was a whole lot of mistakes made... Even Fergie made
huge mistakes with the selections and the positions of his
players... The Sun newspaper already published a leak team line-up
a few days before the match... and he didn't do anything about
it... They even got the positons of his players correct... Ronaldo
lone striker, Rooney left-winger... They even got correct who would
replace Fletcher in that midfield, Giggs...
Now that the match is over, we can see where they got it
wrong... Playing Ronaldo in the striker position was wrong as
everyone knows Barce were without their usual full-backs... A lot
could have been made had he play on the right wing instead...
Park should have move back replacing Giggs and helping out in
the defence as Giggs didn't have the legs to cover the pitch...
And he became like non-existence and I don't mean
just the first half... It was like throughout the whole match...
Tevez of Berbatov should have played as the striker...
Anyway, i guess United didn't deserve to win it for the way they
all played as a team... Now we just have to look at the bright side
of things... They made it all the way to the final which was good,
and made lots of money reaching the final... Probably enough to pay
for Tevez's transfer fee... lol
But the most important thing would be, next season's EPL is
going to be much harder with an improve Liverpool and a Chelsea
ready to spend big again... So not having to go to some parts in
Asia in mid-season and having a fixture pile up like this
season would serve their cause better... Ultimately,
winning the Premier League title is still my No.1 preference every
year...
So hopefully, next season they can overtake Pool's
18...
