Yeeeesss! We won! It was really strange until the etoo goal. Then the real barcelona appeared. We missed so much Abidal and Alves in the first half. I didn't like Puyol diving in one play, but he performed really well. Manchester was a great opponent, they were unlucky in the first minutes but played bravely an offensive.
Pique is Piquenbauer! The best central defender in Barcelona (and one of the best in the world, too). And Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Etoo... too much quality there! Don't spoil it next year!
And finally, congrats to Guardiola. In his first year, the treble! Amazing. He really makes the difference. Now to celebrate with my family!
Piqué was perfect, and Toure was really good too.. 2 tall defenders but both have quality on passing and getting the ball to the midfielders or even the forwards
and Guardiola did an awesome job.. and in his 2nd year as professional coach, very competent and also very lucky
Eto'o also was great, ManU only attacked on the first 10 minutes, and at the only real chance of scoring, he got it..
after that MU started to lose the game, missing passes, not able to keep the ball.. totally outplayed by Barça..
Thx to all of you! Hope to find you again in a final! We won the cup oday, but nearly ten years ago our city helped you to win it, so now we're at peace with each other!
One thing we're specially proud of:
We won the cup with 7 players raised in our own club playing the starting eleven.
Valdes, Puyol, Pique (even if left for man for two years), Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi. Well done, boys! At the end, money is not everything, you have to form players and make them love football.
We have a style and we're committed to it. 7 players raised in the club is something we didn't see in a final since.. Ajax, maybe?
During the season also Bojan and Pedrito played some matches, so it's up to 9 players who contributed to the treble. That's the way and more clubs should follow this way.
thats really great.. while other teams spend fortunes with players to make their squad, Barça has high quality players on its Youth academy..
and what a game Xavi and Iniesta played.. Iniesta lowed his level on the end of the 2nd half but he was not at 100%, talking about his muscular condition..
but both were great, Iniesta could get 2 good freekicks for Barça near the box, one almost turned in a goal from Xavi..
and Xavi is the master in passes, he puts where he wants too.. the cross to Messi on the 2nd goal was awesome, and so was the header
oh, btw, u people have GIFs from the final?
He always gets the ball. Great at positioning and jumping.
