This is Lionel Messi. He gets after it on the pitch. Pitch would be field.
Barcelona v. Manchester United
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Bottomline: Two really good soccer teams playing in a really important game. Should be good. We’re live blogging it either in the comments or in this post here. Game starts right around 3pm.
Went with Messi on the picture because Cristiano Ronaldo gets all the dap. Best player in the world, sure. But, Messi is pretty damn good and I’m going with Barcelona for the W here. Count a goal for Samuel Eto’o right now. That dude is no joke.
Even tho I’m from England, Part of me wants to see an awesome game, with a Barcelona win. Altho my head says Man Utd have the better defence, and so will win it
I’ve read some very negative things about Barcelona’s defense…any chance at a 4-3 type game? I think that’d be great to see on the highest level.
Damn, couple minutes in and Man U with a real good chance on a Ronaldo free kick. Keeper knocked it down and they had a chance to score but couldn’t capitalize.
They have a pitchside reporter for ESPN coverage. This seems new. A sign of Soccer moving up in America?
Eto’o making me look smart for a change as he starts things off with a nice move and finish for the first goal. Man U was pepperin’ them with early chances and couldn’t get anything.
An early Barcelona goal I think figures well for a close but fairly high scoring game. With Barcelona’s D I think a lot of people were thinking like a 2-0, 3-0 United win because of their better defense.
Wiggy, why do they let Ryan Giggs take free kicks when they have Ronaldo? That doesn’t seem to make sense.
Also, my first born son might hate me. There’s a 50-50 chance I name him “Pique”.
That name is fantastic.
Barcelona completely controlled that half after the goal was scored. United was like shell shocked, how the hell can that be? Did they just not expect Barcelona to score all day?
hmmm… if I stop doing this for the 2nd half Acadia will come on here in 4 hours and say, “you should have kept going, people were just about to post comments”
if I keep doing this for the 2nd half, no one will post and it will just be me. I’ll probably keep doing it. Maybe get an atta boy from Acadia.
However, all these comments to just myself I feel like that Any Given Sunday scene where Pacino asks the team if they want to play like a bunch of bitches and to raise their hand if they do. No one except Pacino raises their hand. Then LL Cool J does.
This is like that. Only without LL Cool J coming to bail me out and make everyone chuckle.
Although, I imagine LLs schedule is clear.
good to see thierry henry can still make cats look silly. needed to finish that, though.
This game has not been as physical as I thought it would be, but it looks like that could be picking up now. Also, United showing some signs of life on offense with Tevez in there.
Since I was on with Eto’o, just gonna throw this out with Berbatov about to come on: Berbatov goal. Book it.
Messi with a real nice goal to make it 2-0. The goal was on a header, but he celebrated by taking off his boot. Why?
Wrapped up. 2-0 final. Barca played like some bitches at the end of it a bit. They did the whole fake injured waste time thing and then had the audacity to complain when Ronaldo popped a dude with an elbow.
Dominating performance though by Barcelona.
That was a GOOD game! And awesome article. You don’t need LL COOLJ.
Thank God I don’t need LL.
I could think of a few things I need him for.
It was a great display of passing football from Barcelona last night. Made Man Utd look ordinary and they struggled to play. Maitland… You may only see the free-kicks Ronaldo scores. It’s about 5% of them he takes
So, does Giggs have a better percent then? Or, whoever else that is taking them.
I definitely really only see the ones he makes, though. Haven’t had Fox soccer channel this year. Definitely miss that channel.