57 responses so far ↓

• Dr.Osmo // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:01

  Man Utd 1 Barça 2

• Hilal // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:21

  COME ON BARCA!!!!

  Nick is right, now is not the time for doubters. The changes will come next season no matter what. Lets all get behind our boys because we know they can do it!

  I feel Messi is going to have a monstrous night. 2-2 Messi & Eto’o

• Jay // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:22

  United 1-1 Barca….

  Good point about negative fans…..They don’t make much sense.

• Taras // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:27

  Man United 2-0 Barca.

• Luis F // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:49

  United 1-2 Barca… In the injury time Ronnie comes on and puts in a game winning bicycle kick from the half-way line

• BARCA 4 LYF // Apr 28, 2008 at 20:57

  Barca 1-1 Man utd!!!

• Blaugrana // Apr 28, 2008 at 22:04

  Man utd 3-0 barça i realy don’t see us going through sorry

• Cule // Apr 28, 2008 at 22:49

  ¡¡¡Visca el Barça!!!!!

  Barça 2 - Utd 1

• bobkat // Apr 28, 2008 at 22:57

  i pray i pray i pray 1-1 god please!!!

• Maverick // Apr 28, 2008 at 23:07

  I have full faith on our team…

  3-2 barca…Like somebody else over here, I feel like if Messi is gonna have a monstrous night….

• John // Apr 28, 2008 at 23:13

  Will settle for a scoring draw…. Will be at Old trafford.. Penya Blugrana London on tour!

• layi // Apr 28, 2008 at 23:21

  2-2

• ae // Apr 29, 2008 at 0:14

  ManU 2-4 Barça

• Titi186 // Apr 29, 2008 at 0:21

  My prediction is 1-2 Barca.

  Barca will score first, then Man United, then controversy, then Barca win in last few minutes on counter-attack.

  My prediction is Messi, Tevez, Henry scoring. In that order. And I am correct all of you owe me a drink (of OJ as I dont drink alchol )

  As for Nic, I agree - change is obviously coming. Ronnie will leave, maybe Gio on loan and Frank sadly too. They are the most obvious ones.

  FOR NOW THOUGH, everyone get behind the team and push them tomward the final!!

  Forca Barca!!

  ps is ANYONE from here going as I seem to be the only lol

• bobby // Apr 29, 2008 at 0:32

  ronni .gio and rkjaard will leave for sure but rite now barca has them and we have to support barca 3-1 henry messi 2 goals and ronaldo for man u

  good luck team

• FCB - Canada // Apr 29, 2008 at 2:28

  I think a loss by Barca will only hasten Franks departure and I think a lot of people want to see that. It was more certain that those players rumored to be leaving like Ronnie, Deco, Zambrotta, Marquez(?) will probably be leaving regardless of the outcome tomorrow.

  3-1 Man U.

• Rafael // Apr 29, 2008 at 2:36

  90 mintues of gutting it out.

  Forget everything thats happened in the season, go out there play their guts out and they will win.

  ROCK AND ROLL.

• Shahenshah // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:22

  Man united is a good team and that one obstacle between Barcelona and Moscow. Barcelona has to be more fierce than a pack of hungry greyhounds let loose. Both clubs, prestigious and dignified in the history of football, are certain to attack with the back of the net in their minds. This tie has always had attractive football with buckets of goal. Hopefully, this history echoes and we witness a text book champions league match up. I feel confident of Barcelona’s chances. The semi-final tomorrow could possibly be one of the highlights of champions league history. Its do or die right here.

  yee forza barca

• Morzzan // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:40

  Barca 1-1 United…… Messi, Ferdinand…..

• Shahenshah // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:41

  Apparently Rijkaard pledges to attack in old trafford. hahaha my goodness I am shocked.

  http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=529951&cc=5901

• amiaq_ferguson // Apr 29, 2008 at 4:33

  3-1 to Man Utd.. consolation goal by Messi. it’s a miracle if Barca can score more than 2 goals, becos we havent conceded more than 2 goals in any game even without our back four.

• Tom F // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:05

  Luis F :

  “United 1-2 Barca… In the injury time Ronnie comes on and puts in a game winning bicycle kick from the half-way line”

  That made me laugh! To be fair, Ole Gunner Solsjkear will probably score our winner in the 93rd minute!

  We only lose to ‘lower’ sides at Old Trafford! Man City, Portsmouth, Coventry.. all this season. However, we’ve beaten Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Lyon, Roma (twice)…

  If Manchester United don’t get to the final this year we’ll never do it. We seem to have the semi-final hoodoo every time we get there!

  If Manchester United win, it will be with out Barcelona scoring - so let’s hope FCB keep it up!

  Good Luck.

• El // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:20

  1-1 ManUtd will equalize only by the end of the match, but it won’t help them FORCA BARCAAAAAAAA!!!!!

• Caleb // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:27

  2-2

• Davor // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:38

  hopefulli 1-1

• FRANK EYOTRE // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:48

  I THINK THY ARE ALL COMFORTABLE TO WIN THE GAME.
  IF IN THERE HISTORY BARCELONA WILL WIN UP THE GAME.

• Dr.Osmo // Apr 29, 2008 at 10:02

  —————————————–V.Valdes————————————-
  ——————————–Puyol————–Milito—————————-
  –Zambrotta————————————————————Abidal——
  ————————————–Yaya Toure————————————
  —————————Deco———————-Xavi—————————-
  ————-Messi———————————————Iniesta(Henry)—–
  —————————————–Eto’o——————————————

  Forca Barca !

• blaugranaboy // Apr 29, 2008 at 14:03

  all i want is a performance with obvious desire, urgency, and love for the game and club. thats it. id love to go through but the performance is more important in my eyes. im worried though. we cant score and we concede. terrible combo. in the last month, all competitions (8 games) we scored only 5 goals, and havnet scored in the last 3. thats horrendous. and now we have to face a very solid defense at united. but, time to forget the pain and mess of the last season, time to believe again.

• Winterhunt // Apr 29, 2008 at 15:14

  MESSI !!! MESSI !!! MESSI !!! Can’t take it watching Sir Alex whine and complain, Ronaldo guarantee goals and make excuses, I’ve not felt good about our guys for ages, but woke up today with a good feeling, I’m one of the people who has been guilty of saying I had hoped we would lose to guarantee change, but that went right out the window a week ago, as I could never in my heart root against my club, OK, today is such a wild card, I’m going with my Heart Barca 3-2, Messi tears them up in a very tough game in a very tough atmosphere, Man U comes to play this week & shows their class, Ronaldo probably does score (Unfortunately), My greatest fear is if we do advance that either Yaya or Leo pick up an OLd Trafford Special Yellow card and have to miss the final….. I realised, you only get so many chances to get this close to a final, you can’t waste any of them…. This is the big prize…. if we don’t show up and get bounced unceremoniously then that is all for us…. Please guys!!!!! Goals by MESSI!!!!! Iniesta & yes Titi Henry……. Win this one & Moscow and Frank goes out a Legend, amazing……

• FCB in trini // Apr 29, 2008 at 15:33

  My prediction is chancey but I want to see a thriller a la Copa del Rey semi 1st leg vs Valencia (with a little extra). Manu go up early and Barca go for the equalizer, & get it, then Manu push for a winner and end up conceding- the best game of the year

• dnzi // Apr 29, 2008 at 15:45

  0-0, extra time 1-0. barça wins. i hope. (yayness, even a madridista hopes that barça continues)

• Nick // Apr 29, 2008 at 17:23

  MU 1 Barça 2

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 18:03

  Well I just want Barca to go to the final for now. But if the sadness is to fall on Barca tonight and we go out. I would hope Laporta would be smart enough to fire Frank TONIGHT !!!! He used his excuses in the last league game that he was resting all the players even the one on the pitch for tonight. Don’t you guys get me wrong winning the CL is way better than Frank leaving the Camp Nou, It’s that I have been disappointed time and time again I just hope this time I’m surprised by a great win.

• Dr.Osmo // Apr 29, 2008 at 19:01

  Confirmed Line-Ups:

  Manchester United

  Van der Sar

  Hargreaves Brown Ferdinand Evra

  Park Carrick Scholes Nani

  Ronaldo

  Tevez

  Barcelona

  Valdes

  Zambrotta Puyol Milito Abidal

  Xavi Toure Deco

  Messi Eto’o Iniesta

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 20:32

  HENRY HENRY HENRY HENRY Please. You cant play a game like this with on Striker.

• Diatus // Apr 29, 2008 at 20:42

  We will tie this game. Barcelona is playing with a bit more urgency and seems as though everybody wants to score. I think Thierry Henry will definitely make a difference in this game. Frank should take out Abidal, move Milito outside, havae Yaya drop back and cover in the middle with Puyol, add another striker (ie: Thierry Henry), have iniesta play between Xavi and the offense. I think we will not only tie but we might aactually win this game. This Man U. team is actually not that great. For a team playing at home the are giving up the ball very easily and can’t seem to string 10 solid passes together. After 1 and half games, I truly think that this is a team we can get passed.
  Barca 2-Man U 1
  what can I say, I am an Eternal believer!!!

• Dr.Osmo // Apr 29, 2008 at 21:39

  Man. Utd. 1-0 FC Barcelona

• layi // Apr 29, 2008 at 21:56

  its over…we have lost……

  henry for iniesta??????iniesta????iniesta????????iniesta that u didnt allow to play his natural position thats why i neva support playin iniesta on the left…iniesta, our best player of the season

  i’m about 2 commit suicide

• Liam // Apr 29, 2008 at 21:58

  Barcelona cant score, next season they really need a new pair of strikers.

  Also, many players have to go, Abidal is a joke, seriously, what happened to the guy that marveled us at Lyon? Henry, Ronaldinho, Marquez, Edmilson, Guddy, even Etoo if they pay a nice amount of money.

  About the game…. why the hell did Rijkaard took out Iniesta? UNBELIVABLE…. Apart from that, cant really complain, Barca outplayed MU, thing is, cules lack goal, if not, history would be different.

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:00

  Layi. Under Frank you should have always predicted a lose. What is new then ! So he will get Fired ( Hopefully ). We can rise. as for Zambrotta go to AC Milan and know that Barca fans are very happy. Frank go flip burgers or something.

• Diatus // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:00

  Wow…what a let down!!!
  We play well I thought but man this is hard to swallow. I am in such a bad mood right now…One mistake, One mistake…just one mistake and here we are going home with our heads down.

  @ Winterhunt

  My friend, I think this is time for the changes you called for plus the following:

  OUT: Frank, Henry, Zambrotta,Abidal,Thuram,Gudjohnsen

  IN: Jose, Hleb(maybe),Cesc, Garay,Lahm,Alves,maybe even Karim Benzima(he is young and might fit well in our system of play, plus he is more skilled than Eto’o and Henry Combined) so far…we need a sure striker!

  To put it in perspective, this might actually be a blessing in disguise. I still hope that we trounce Real on May 7th. I am going across the Atlantic to witness that in person…Jeez…the luck of the Catalan really deserted us today!

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:04

  Nic. Please don’t post my comment it was a moment of anger. I’m sure you understand. Just Frank out is good for me. Like i said again and again and again. Frank should have left a long time ago. You keep on telling me he is focusing on the CL. Now what.

• robert // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:07

  hahahahaahaha wow great no more cahmpions league for us darn it we need so many changes and its now for reals time for rkjaard to go now not b4 when people didnt let this even finish….. but wow we need to sell the whole fu*** team and buy a new team gosh

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:09

  Just a quick question. DOES ANY ONE THINK FRANK SHOULD STAY ?!!!!

• Dr.Osmo // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:10

  OUT: Rijkaard, Oleguer, Thuram, Edmilson, Guddy, Ezquerro (Deco)

  ——
  Mourinho, Garay, Lahm, Poulsen, Fabregas…

• max // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:13

  yet again we dominate possession but no goals to show for it. Anyway this abysmal season is over finally, and laporta get on with it already and revolutionize the team. We need fresh faces, fresh play, fresh goal scoring abilities, and fresh management. Rijkaard thank you for your time but seriously its all over now and its time to bow out. Mourinho is coming i hope, and for those of you who label his style “boring” and defensive, please watch some videos of his Porto team that won the champions league, Deco was there and they played beautiful football. He just needs talented players to work with, not John terry and company. Anyway hopefully we will see a new and much better barca next season..

• Frede // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:14

  the great depression

• El // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:15

  Man, what on Earth made him to decide Henry for Iniesta? why not Deco? Deco was great, but he CAN’T play whole game, just can’t! My god, I don’t know what Rijkiard is teaching them on trainings, but does he know that there a lot more tactics in football than just 1-1 pass to striker to come accross goalkeeper and make 435436 passess without any sense at the end? how about shoots? why only toure shooted once? My God, whole match only one tactic, it is just a horror, MU read all our game through!! Messi was brilliant, by all means, he showed Christina that he is just ridiculuous artist, who can’t play in such nervous matches.. but man, come on, Messi can’t win the match on his own!!

  Damn it, Rijkiard thanks for all you have done, now it is time for you to GOOOO!!!

• layi // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:19

  just one mistake, just one, but i can say they have worked for that mistake all season…we only worked for ours when we felt like(champions league).

  i just wish i could know why he removed iniesta…..??????

• Joe Henry // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:23

  The only mistake there was is that Frank was the coaching Barca. Layi your answer i think he feared he might score goal ( God Forbid). Any way Fans just go to sleep and wait for the sun to rise tomorrow ! There is not point for crying over spilled milk. I know i seem like a bad fan at the moment but i actually expected this. Under Frank I expected every thing. Better luck when Frank leaves.

• Liam // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:24

  Mourinho cant come to Barca, his way of understanding footie is way different than Barcas philosophy.

  I think Pellegrini from Villareal would be a good call, also Laudrup.

  About who to sign, I cant really think of any other strikers apart from David Villa or Diego Milito. We need at least 2 fullbacks and a centre back, 2 midfielders would be nice (if possible a left footed one and other of the likes of Gerrard or Lampard, with this i mean someone who can do some dirty work and still pass the ball and score from outside the box). In the superstars department…. imho theres nobody out there, so Barca should c that Messi fully recovers.

• layi // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:28

  good night…..let me sleep over it so my frustration would have reduced by 2morrow

• Liam // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:32

  Max, Mourinhos teams played good defensive football and were really good at counter, also, im pretty sure they did have some really good matches with nice plays and all, BUT , Barca cant play this kind of football cuz they understand that the best way of defending is having the ball, creating spaces by moving the ball fast and make the other team lose their positions in order to score… if he could adapt to this, I would be happy if he came, if he is going to change everything in order to fit in…. NO THANKS.

  Messi is by far the best player in the world, thing is, hes been injured… if not, nobody would be talking about Ronaldo (who imho is quality but aint at Lionels level).

• Winterhunt // Apr 29, 2008 at 22:35

  Oh Diatus….. Man….. I wish I had been wrong….. watching that was just really kind of devastating… funny how it felt like it would be OK to lose if it brought about changes and now after losing, and watching Fergie champ away on his gum and everyone singing in the Stadium, wow……. I really felt like we would win this morning, but really it was the same thing again….. funny coincidence, right after the game the first commercial was Jose Mourinho in an ad for Addidas with Messi on this bus and Mourinho says “My name is Jose Mourinho, and I am a football coach. I go where I am needed”….. I really hope that was a sign….. Off to sulk for a while….. Sorry that the Classico doesn’t have higher stakes for you, my man, but have fun anyway….. Maybe/hopefully this will bring about the wholesale changes we both want….. It is sad to have so much talent and so little to show for it…… At least Ronaldo didn’t score, not much consolation but I think Messi pretty much showed who was the better of the two today….. Alright, Diatus, Take care….. maybe they we will announce a Jose signing sooner rather than later though I suspect we’ll have to wait for that too ntil the end of the season (even though the season ostensibly ended today) Bon Voyage, my friend, at least you are going to Spain, I am stuck in NYC for a while longer……

• Matthew // Apr 29, 2008 at 23:09

  Barca need to play as a team… that is the only thing that differs from what Real have at the moment, they dont have 1/4th of the talent we possess, but, somehow, the team just cannot deliver as a team…. My best wishes and good luck…

• Diatus // Apr 29, 2008 at 23:46

  @winterhunt

  Thanks Man…Stakes are low but it sure will be nice to rain on RM’s parade. I need “something” to hold on to for the long hot summer months ahead. Jeez man, can you imagine the “nut case” of a Real Madrid fan and Barcelona hater I have at home running circles around me and cheering on the “cheatin’, lying, fabricating lil” *&^%%$ called Ronaldo…Jeez man I need a drink!!!
  I once teased you of wanting to commit suicide but I think I was simply talking about myself..joder!!!
  Anyway, good luck with the film!

• Winterhunt // Apr 30, 2008 at 0:12

  Thanks Diatus… I appreciate it…. there’s a place in Heaven for you in having the patience to deal with a Barca hater/Madrista in the home, especially after today…. I always admired your optimism, and I do think this will lead to better things for us, with Messi, Bojan, Yaya,Iniest we have amazing young players to build around, We’ll be back my man ,and when we are it will be all the sweeter for it… You have all my sympathies, in your home life…. enjoy Spain!!!!!!!!!!!!

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