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 | Barcelona v Manchester United - the final of the decade28-05-2011 |
With the assistance of PlayStation European giants Barcelona and Manchester United will now face each other in one of the most eagerly anticipated finals in football history.
The champions of Spain and England, who will argue over Wembley Stadium in the final match of the Champions League, dominated in its domestic league and the final of Europe's most prestigious tournament reached without major difficulties.
Barca went group that were the teams of FC Copenhagen, Rubin Kazan and Panathinaikos, and then remove Arsenal 1/8-finalite. Followed by a convincing victory over Shakhtar Donetsk in 1/4-final and success against the eternal rival Real Madrid in the penultimate stage.
Manchester United finished ahead of Valencia, Rangers and Bursaspor in their group, followed confident victory against Marseille in the next round and success against Chelsea and Schalke 04. Players Sir Alex Ferguson won the premiership in a categorical way, did the same and players of the Primera Pep Guardiola, collecting 96 points.
Despite the excellent weather that made both teams, the outcome of today's final in London will be decisive about what memories will leave fans in season 2010/2011.
Two years ago the final in Rome gave Barcelona a football lesson to his rivals Manchester United, not giving the islanders any chances. Catalans took the lead with a goal yet in the 10 th minute of Samuel Eto'o and decided the final goal of the dispute with Lionel Messi in the second half.
Today at Wembley two teams come out with roughly the same composition - probably three or four different footolisti. In Ferguson's team optimism reigns and everyone is convinced that they have learned from their mistakes and found a recipe for success against the Spaniards.
The upcoming match will be 11 and between the two teams, now they have met 10 times and recorded three wins and four meetings have ended in a draw.
At Wembley Manchester are becoming 9 times winners of the FA Cup and the London stadium and sign for Barca. In 1968 United became the first English winner of the European Cup, beating Benfica of Eusebio with 4:1 after extra time. 24 years later in London trophy was held in Barcelona, also needed overtime to beat Sampdoria.
Both teams have a total of three wins in the most important European tournament and one team win today would allow him to align this indicator with Ajax and Bayern. More tournament triumphs have only Liverpool, AC Milan and Real.
2008/2009 Manchester to Rome had won all their finals, overcoming Benfica (1968), Bayern (1999) and Chelsea (2008), while Barca have three wins from its six finals - Barcelona took over Sampdoria (1992), Arsenal (2006 ) and Manchester United (2009), but yield to Benfica (1961), Steaua Bucharest (1986) and Milan (1994).
Graduates of Pep Guardiola could become the most powerful club in the continent for the third time the last 6 years and be the first team to win three time Champions League in the XXI century.
Spanish coach Guardiola was only 7 years old when in season 1978/1979 36-year-old mentor Ferguson debuted on the European scene with Aberdeen. Since then the Scot won all sorts of trophies and at Wembley today can havoyuva third European Cup and tied with Bob Paisley, who has done this with Liverpool in 1977, 1978 and 1981.
There is nothing to boast and Guardiola, who is in the list of six who have won the European Cup as a player and coach. In 2009, he ordered his name to that of Miguel Muñoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti and Frank Rijkaard.
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