That whole paragraph could be written about United.

Defintely. Nobody in the bar could explain how he'd put it wide.

You seem to be having a similar problem with Berbatov. He's very similar to Ibra only not as good. I think after RvN left, United changed the way they played. They dropped the traditional 4-4-2, instead they built around Ronaldo's ability to score out wide, whilst they never had a 'target man', their tactics relied upon players supporting and breaking into the box, Ronaldo was by the best at this, but Rooney also done it really well as they aren't/weren't pure strikers, they preferred dropping deep.

Since Ronaldo's gone, United are kinda stuck in transition, you no longer have the goals coming from out wide, instead they're mainly coming from the striker, which hasn't happened since Ruud was there. I feel if you want to return to the very top, you need a striker to partner/back up Rooney, I'm not sure if Villa would be the best candidate, I think Benzema would be class if available (despite his form in Spain), whilst it's been mooted Higuain would be available, again, he'd be class at any of the top sides in England IMO. I think you need a striker, a centre midfielder and your defence has been very threadbare with injuries this year. If you can sign a top passing midfielder to partner Fletcher/Hargreaves (I like Carrick but he isn't top top drawer, whilst Anderson was still struggling before his injury), then you'll be hard to stop.

TBH I thought he'd scored at the time. I think most people would've thought the same.

He should've scored, but even the best players in the world miss chances like that all the time. His header was 50 times better than Sneijder's last week. Sneiijder got lucky by his team mate following the dreadful header and the lino missing his blatant offside. Sneijder got very, very lucky. Bojan is just the unlucky bloke who many people will blame for Barca going out.

I'd blame Guardiola over Bojan. Why start Milito at left back? Why bring Ibra off but leave Keita on the field and then proceed to work the ball into wider areas and cross it into under 6ft players?

Pep is a great manager but he shown a bit of inexperience in a really tough situation IMO. Ibra is struggling, no doubt, but he is still an undoubted threat, especially compared to Keita. I thought the starting formation was really strange, I couldn't understand why Milito was at left back, Pep realized after the break that it really wasn't working, but it was too late, Barca needed to score early if they were to have a chance, instead they tried to stroll their way into the game. They left too much to be done in the second half, the first half was really poor whilst it took them about half an hour to really go for it in the second.

The incident in question was not handball it was ball to hand. If a player is laying prone injured on the edge of the box and an opposing player accidentally trips over him is it freekick?? I would say not, the same as the ball accidentally striking the hand??.....

Well Done Inter, Barca are a great footballing side but their antics last night were disgusting.

Shocking behaviour from Arselona turning on the sprinklers last night

Barcelona got exactly what they deserved last night.

Is there a more overrated player that Ibrahimovic? 46million Euro's plus Eto'o I bet Inter coulden't wait to get him on a plane and sign the deal!

one of those players who looks world class against lower/mid table league plodders, but goes missing in big games for both club and country.

Shocking comments about Barcelona from some on here.

Don't you know that everyone connected with them always help old ladies cross the road, and every time they see a kid on the street who looks a bit thin they taken them in and make sure they have a good meal?

It's why last weeks arduos trip to Milan took them 5 hours longer than it takes anyone else to drive it.

I'm sensing sarcasm there.

No dig at them having Unicef on their shirt?

First I'd heard of it, it's never mentioned.

Fifth place finish would not mean failure - Mancini news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 652108.stm In some ways I agree. I don't think 4th should have been a target in the first place this season. But when a side sack a manager when the team is in 6th place because they team aren't in line for their targets, when the club say that their goal is a top 4 finish, then not finishing 4th is a clear failure.

Fifth place finish would not mean failure - Mancini news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 652108.stm In some ways I agree. I don't think 4th should have been a target in the first place this season. But when a side sack a manager when the team is in 6th place because they team aren't in line for their targets, when the club say that their goal is a top 4 finish, then not finishing 4th is a clear failure.