Barcelona Vs Manchester United - Pre-season friendly

davisjw said:
Went to the open practice session last night. Interesting how both spent their hour.

Both did keep away, but Barca's was a lot tighter space and a lot more serious.

Pep was a lot more involved in Barca's practice whereas Fergie just watched United's.

United were doing some complicated variation of plays leading to crosses in the box. They also took shots from the 18 during that drill. Barca's was very simple and concentrated on crosses from the left - they never did it from the right side. Evra beware.

United also practiced shots. Rooney was on target and Anderson's looked sharper. Carrick was dreadful. Diouf looks able to shoot but was poor on the crosses. Owen and Macheda were in the middle to poach. Barca spent the last 20 minutes on a small sided scrimmage. They looked a lot sharper than United and look fully committed to tonight's game. They won't take it lightly.

Barca were also better for their fans. Whereas United only held their session at one end, Barca made sure to practice in ever corner of the stadium. They had a section where if you paid more, you got autographs and United stuck mostly to that spot, whereas Barca players went to each part of the stadium to sign things. Wish United took that consideration.

In all it was a good run out for both. Barca look serious which makes tonight's game all the better. Looking forward to the sold-out crowd! Based on last night, looks like Barca will have a more vocal and larger fan base.
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If they're crossing from their left then they'll be facing United's RB and not Evra
 
Sky sports score centre has this match as postponed, I haven't heard any thing to this effect so I'm assuming its a mistake.

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Good to know Excal, thanks.

Looking forward to the match, it'll be good to play Barca without any of the real pressure/apprehension.
 
redspoony said:
If Barca dominate the midfield again, it might be the push SAF needs to invest further. Doubt it, like, but would make sense.
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If domination in 2 Champions League Finals hasn't given him the 'push he needs' then I doubt a World Football Challenge match will.
 
The current Barca midfield, and team, is arguably the greatest club football has ever seen. They are most likely going to dominate us no matter what. It really shouldn't figure into SAFs planning too much, we have no guarantee of playing them every
 
KingCantona87 said:
Does anybody have a stream/feed for this one? Checked myp2p.eu but there doesn't seem to be anything.
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Will try to do that usual thing with the link as my homepage. Don't expect a good veetle stream earlier than 20-25 minutes before the game, though.
 
Official United line-up:

De Gea
Rafael, Vidic, Evans, Evra
Nani, Cleverley, Anderson, Young
Rooney, Welbeck
 
At what point are they in their pre-season? Considering the start of the premier league is only two weeks away you should be well ahead of them in fitness stakes.
 
Valdes - Dos Santo, Busquets, Fontas, Abidal - Thiago, Keita, Iniesta - Pedro, Villa, Afellay.
 
Team Brian GB said:
At what point are they in their pre-season? Considering the start of the premier league is only two weeks away you should be well ahead of them in fitness stakes.
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I've only seen Barca in a couple game in the Audi cup otherwise I'm pretty sure we've played more games.
 
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