Barcelona vs Manchester United UEFA Champions League Highlights
Barcelona will entertain Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League semis 1st leg tie. Catch the Barcelona v Manchester United highlights at Goalcentre.
The Barcelona v Manchester United match preview is blogged by FCB News.
Thierry Henry has recovered from his fever and has been named in the squad for tomorrow evening’s Champions League semi-final first leg with Manchester United at Camp Nou (kick off 8.45pm). Lilian Thuram comes in for the suspended Carles Puyol but will most likely start on the bench. This is make or break time now for Barça and the consequencies of a defeat will almost certainly lead to some big changes at the club. With La Liga out of reach the Champions League is Barça’s only chance not to have a second consecutive trophyless season.
On current form United deserve to be considered the best team in Europe and Cristiano Ronaldo, at the moment, can be classed as the best in the world. Sir Alex Ferguson has managed to build yet another team that has left rivals Arsenal and Chelsea in their wake, with Rooney and Tevez being the other main stars. In defence they have a solid pairing of Rio Ferdinand and Nemenja Vidic, and in midfield they have many various options from the old boys Giggs and Scholes to youngsters Nani and Anderson to the workers like Hargreaves and Park. They lead the Premiership with just three games to go and look on course for their 17th league title, the tenth of Ferguson’s managership.
Both sides have said they will attack and there has been talk of an open game. The last time to two clubs met at Camp Nou the crowd were treated to a thrilling 3-3 draw with a spectacular hat-trick from Rivaldo included. Unless there is an early goal, however, I have a strong feeling that tomorrow’s game will in fact be tense and cagey. Barça will try to dictate with their possession football while United will be looking for quick breaks as soon as they gain the ball. Barça’s defence will struggle against the pace of Ronaldo and Rooney so it will be important not to give the ball away in midfield. United will rarely play against a team so good at maintaing possession and it will be interesting to see if their midfield play a pressing game or choose instead to sit back and protect the defence. They will be worried about how to stop Leo Messi so Ferguson may sacrifice a midfield player to get back and support left back Patrice Evra.
Barça’s forwards are due a bit of luck in front of goal after two consecutive 0-0 draws at Camp Nou. Thierry Henry may only start on the substitutes bench after suffering the fever that forced him to miss training on Monday, and if Henry doesn’t start, Rijkaard will have to choose between playing seventeen-year-old Bojan Krkic in such a big match or moving Iniesta forward which could mean a start in midfield for Eidur Gudjohnsen. The other big question will be who plays at left back. Eric Abidal has been poor in recent games and Rijkaard may well decide to give the place to veteran Sylvinho.
Both teams have a few players recovering from injuries but I expect that Marquez, Milito, Toure, Iniesta and Messi will all start for Barça, as will Van Der Saar, Vidic and Rooney for United. Barça have Messi, Toure, Marquez and Milito just one yellow card away from suspension while United’s Nani and Evra are in the same situation.
Barça’s squad: Valdés, Pinto, Zambrotta, Thuram, Marquez, Milito, Abidal, Sylvinho, Xavi, Toure, Deco, Gudjohnsen, Iniesta, Messi, Giovani, Eto’o, Bojan, Henry
Possible starting Xis:
Barça: Valdés; Zambrotta, Marquez, Milito, Sylvinho; Xavi, Toure, Iniesta; Messi, Eto’o, Bojan.
Man United: Van Der Saar; Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Hargreaves, Carrick, Anderson, Park; Ronaldo; Rooney.
My Prediction: Barça 1 Man United 0 (by FCB News)
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Any predictions for the 2nd semi finals? 
I am pretty sure tip will be looking for a 3-0 Manchester United win!
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37 Responses to “Barcelona vs Manchester United UEFA Champions League Highlights”
By tip on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply
barca goin down
By khaled_sameh on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Barcelona (1-1) Man.united
By sanjeev on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Barca surely goin down today …
By raida on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
homes we have c ronaldo and wayne rooney and tevez rio ferdinand like the best defender in the world
By mailk on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
man utd is surely going down today and messidona he will teach tha man players wat play is all about spceilay ronaldo
By mailk on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
man utd going down today and messi wil teach man players wat play is all about speicaly ronaldo crazy boy
By eamon on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
FUCK MANU
we hav saint Messi
and Eto’o
yaya toure and milto
so shove it
BARCALONA BARCALONA
By hardy on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
man utd till i die 7-0
By Tony on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
eamon–you need you get a grip manchester united are simple better than barcelona, and if ur such a big fan of them why you spelt there name wrong–BARCALONA–bluddy idiot
By CHOLO on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
FUCK BARCELONA IS ALL ABOUT WAYNE ROONEY AND C RONALDO FUCK BARCELONA FUCK HENRY RONALDINHO AND MESSI THEY AINT SHIT FOR THE BEST TEAM MANCHESTER UNITED SO FUCK ALL U BARCELONA FANS SECOND LEG MANCHESTER IS WIN IN 2 ZERO SO BARCELONA SUCKS !!!!!!!
By gator on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
3 missing penalties… way to go refs.
ronny should have made the first one then barca would already be out. clutch mistake of his first touch of the game. come on O T make some noise.
By william on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
Manchester is goin down
By 1000goals on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
I don’t know about you but I am sad when there are no goals
…
I bet that it will be hell at Old Trafford, Barca is no joke team
If Man Utd wants to win they’ll have to work hard on it!
By Utdtildeath on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
buddy if your a Barcelona fan, then why hell do you not know how to spell the name of your team. its Barcelona not barcalona, your a disgrace
By chimxcore on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
cant wait 2 of my favorite teams. its gonna be good
By Alexander on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
I’m real madrid fan, but i must admit that barca was a class better then man utd. Schalke played more aggresive and better against barca then man utd. I didn’t saw roony, c ronaldo, tevez.. I only saw bus parked in front of man utd’s goal. If baraca going to score at old trafford it gonna be very tricky for man utd.
By Chelsea fan on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
well it doesnt matter cause Chelsea is gonna kill which ever one gets to the fianl
By Admin on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
United need to be careful in OT. At least a clear 2 goals advantage because a one goal lead against Barcelona is not safe because we know what they are capable of.
By F U NOOB on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
Stupid noob learn to spell your club before you start talking smack.
MAN U
By jaime on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
youu man u suckszzzzzzzz ballllssss ok henry will score 3 n et’o will score five n yea weill dominate my score 8 to 0
By tip on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
its straight. the ref loved barca. there should have been another pk. and there’s a lot of pressure but we straight. old trafford is not friendly place for barca. and fergunson needs to play peeps in the right position. fo real. no more rooney on the wing and get nani and anderson in some. good that parks playin. we straight. and brca fans need to remember that we played like shit today. all defense, no attacks. did you not see the wall of defense? and the couple of times that we did get an attack we did ight. and there should have been a couple other pk’s. barca has to tie 1-1 if they want to advance. but back in england will be a different story.
By Tom on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
In my opinion it was a poor match. Maybe they improve next week…
By Danny Goldsmith on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
griiiiiipppppppppzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
By by land on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
cristiano last penaltyy
By Baba on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
woooo well done bacelona i like you but make sure that inside old trafford you make man united to have new trafford. Just give them only 1 goal so that the big big mouth will be expell in this game love BARCELONA
By Alix on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
Barca going to get ruined at 2nd leg xD
By telmen on Apr 25, 2008 | Reply
hi guis manchester champion
By telmen on Apr 25, 2008 | Reply
hi manchester united number one mongolie
By Roy on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
Why the shit are you all saying barca sucks LOOK AT THEIR FRIGGING POSESSION! 95%..
Ok i aint saying manu sucks, they are a good team but what im saying is that if they wanna win a team like barca they gotta play better…and also they should NOT USE RONALDO for PENALTIES. lol jk… hope there is a fare match at OT
By adil on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
today is the glory of Man u. so wait barcelona we r coming (we will teach u the real football in old tarford )and like that all the world will remember man U !
By john black on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
man u has like 1 player that thy depend on, how u can say fuck the fantastic 4 , when u have fucked up team like man u, with drug addicts like ferdinand, shit players like tevez, can park even speak english, to be playing in the english league. dont get me started on rooney, can u spell retard? bitch
By Jarrad on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
15 mins til game time.
I’m feeling a 1-1 draw for these two.
Putting Barcelona into the final to face
the wrath of the mighty Liverpool! Haha.
First leg
Barca 0 - 0 Man U
Liverpool 1 - 1 Chelsea
2nd leg
Man U 1 - 1 Barca
Chelsea 0 - 1 Liverpool (Torres)
Final
Barca 1 - 2 Livepool.
Yep, that’s my predictions.
Enjoy the game kids. =D
By man u manager on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
man u will kick barcelona ass and barcelona players will suck our cock
By Yeye on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
Fuck you all who thought barca stood a chance against the real king of Europe: Manchester United. What did u think? They may have messi, henry etc but it does not mean they are as good this year as 2 years ago. Names don’t mean much and Barca is not worthy of the final.
…And Manu has already its name on the cup.