he Sun, el diari sensacionalista anglès per excel·lència, és clar: el Barça completament superior en tot, Messi (el petit i baixet) guanya la partida a CR7 i la intel·ligència de Guardiola (que es converteix en l'entrenador més jove en aconseguir una Champions (38) i el sisè en guanyar-la com a entrenador i jugador) supera l'experiència de Ferguson.
El reportatge:
NO quadruple, no successive Champions League titles and no complaints.
Manchester United left Rome in ruins, as they were not just beaten but played off the park by a Barcelona team superior in every department.
Cristiano Ronaldo lost his personal duel with Lionel Messi in the footballing Colosseum of the Stadio Olimpico - a case of the Cristiano being thrown to the Lionel - and United lost their way from back to front.
This was not how a previously outstanding season was supposed to end.
It was thought the experience of manager Alex Ferguson, who has seen and done it all, would find out young buck Pep Guardiola in his first campaign as Barca boss.
Far from it. Guardiola asked all the questions and provided all the answers, as he completed an incredible treble of domestic league and cup and now Europe's biggest prize at the tender age of 38.
In the process, Guardiola became the youngest-ever Champions League-winning coach and one of a rare breed to lift the trophy as both player and manager.
His brilliant midfield duo of Andres Iniesta and Xavi ran the show.
Such was their dominance, it seemed United had decided not to bother with a midfield at all. They were dragged all over the shop and, at times, there was only Michael Carrick between defence and attack.
From the moment the Catalans went ahead through a Samuel Eto'o strike on 10 minutes, they never looked like losing.
They hit the post from a Xavi free-kick early in the second half and finished United off when the smallest man on view, Messi, rose unmarked and hung in the air for what seemed like an age before heading in 20 minutes from time.
How Thierry Henry revelled in the celebrations, as Barca skipper Carles Puyol raised the trophy aloft.
The popular Frenchman strived for so long to win the Champions League at Arsenal and was distraught when they were beaten by Barca three years ago.
Now he has all football's major medals in his trophy cabinet. Who would begrudge him that, after the entertainment he gave English football fans up and down the land for eight magnificent years?
Fergie had joked that Barca were his lucky team. They were the victims when he won his first European trophy with United in the 1991 Cup Winners Cup, he completed the treble in the Nou Camp in 1999 and knocked Barca out at the semi-final stage last year.
Yet if we thought Barca were fortunate to be here after the way they struggled past Chelsea, they proved what a great football team they can be if they are allowed to play.
They did have a wobble early on, though, when United took the game to their supposedly dodgy defence and Ronaldo might have had a hat-trick.
A 30-yard free-kick tested a panicky Victor Valdes in the Barca goal and, just as Ji-Sung Park prepared to bury the rebound, former United defender Gerard Pique made a superb challenge to deny the South Korean midfielder.
Ronaldo had another go with a 35-yard shot which flew past the left post and also put a volley just wide.
But then, out of nowhere, United conceded completely against the run of play.
Iniesta, who broke Chelsea hearts with his last-gasp goal in this season's semi, slalomed forward and fed Eto'o on the right. The Cameroon striker dropped a shoulder, cut inside Nemanja Vidic far too easily and prodded in a right-foot shot which found its way under the diving Edwin van der Sar.
It was a savage blow, which knocked the stuffing out of Fergie's men. Suddenly they were nervous and ponderous, while Ronaldo forgot he had any team-mates by shooting from daft angles when there were better passes on.
Argie star Messi began to cause serious problems. He fizzed one left-foot shot just over from 20 yards and, as he ran at United, the ball seemed glued to his blue boots.
United skipper Ryan Giggs had surprisingly been employed as a striker, with Park playing deeper than expected. But it was not working. The PFA Player of the Year was not seeing any of the ball, while behind him Anderson was struggling to get into the game.
Meanwhile, the ineffective Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo were getting ever more frustrated, waving their arms at one another in exasperation.
Fergie had to change it and introduced Messi's fellow countryman Carlos Tevez at the interval in place of Anderson.
It just meant more gaps for Xavi to exploit. His gorgeous pass found Henry, who turned Rio Ferdinand inside out before seeing his near post effort saved by Van der Sar.
Messi then went down in the area screaming for a penalty, claiming he had been pulled back by John O'Shea, while Tevez's first act was to fell Iniesta just outside the area.
It was a real chance for Barca and United breathed a sigh of relief as Xavi's right-foot curler rattled an upright.
Time for another United forward and on came Dimitar Berbatov for Park. It was almost 4-1-5, as Giggs linked with the attack again leaving Carrick to do the work of three men. But Barca were too good not to make the most of the spaces.
Xavi had time to line up a deep cross over the head of Ferdinand and there was
5ft 7in Messi, leaping two feet off the ground to arch his neck and head into the far corner.
United did have a chance to pull one back, when Berbatov's cross found its way to Ronaldo at the far post.
But he was denied by Valdes and that was the end of that.
he Sun, el diari sensacionalista anglès per excel·lència, és clar: el Barça completament superior en tot, Messi (el petit i baixet) guanya la partida a CR7 i la intel·ligència de Guardiola (que es converteix en l'entrenador més jove en aconseguir una Champions (38) i el sisè en guanyar-la com a entrenador i jugador) supera l'experiència de Ferguson.
ResponEliminaEl reportatge:
NO quadruple, no successive Champions League titles and no complaints.
Manchester United left Rome in ruins, as they were not just beaten but played off the park by a Barcelona team superior in every department.
Cristiano Ronaldo lost his personal duel with Lionel Messi in the footballing Colosseum of the Stadio Olimpico - a case of the Cristiano being thrown to the Lionel - and United lost their way from back to front.
This was not how a previously outstanding season was supposed to end.
It was thought the experience of manager Alex Ferguson, who has seen and done it all, would find out young buck Pep Guardiola in his first campaign as Barca boss.
Far from it. Guardiola asked all the questions and provided all the answers, as he completed an incredible treble of domestic league and cup and now Europe's biggest prize at the tender age of 38.
In the process, Guardiola became the youngest-ever Champions League-winning coach and one of a rare breed to lift the trophy as both player and manager.
His brilliant midfield duo of Andres Iniesta and Xavi ran the show.
Such was their dominance, it seemed United had decided not to bother with a midfield at all. They were dragged all over the shop and, at times, there was only Michael Carrick between defence and attack.
ResponEliminaFrom the moment the Catalans went ahead through a Samuel Eto'o strike on 10 minutes, they never looked like losing.
They hit the post from a Xavi free-kick early in the second half and finished United off when the smallest man on view, Messi, rose unmarked and hung in the air for what seemed like an age before heading in 20 minutes from time.
How Thierry Henry revelled in the celebrations, as Barca skipper Carles Puyol raised the trophy aloft.
The popular Frenchman strived for so long to win the Champions League at Arsenal and was distraught when they were beaten by Barca three years ago.
Now he has all football's major medals in his trophy cabinet. Who would begrudge him that, after the entertainment he gave English football fans up and down the land for eight magnificent years?
Fergie had joked that Barca were his lucky team. They were the victims when he won his first European trophy with United in the 1991 Cup Winners Cup, he completed the treble in the Nou Camp in 1999 and knocked Barca out at the semi-final stage last year.
Yet if we thought Barca were fortunate to be here after the way they struggled past Chelsea, they proved what a great football team they can be if they are allowed to play.
They did have a wobble early on, though, when United took the game to their supposedly dodgy defence and Ronaldo might have had a hat-trick.
A 30-yard free-kick tested a panicky Victor Valdes in the Barca goal and, just as Ji-Sung Park prepared to bury the rebound, former United defender Gerard Pique made a superb challenge to deny the South Korean midfielder.
Ronaldo had another go with a 35-yard shot which flew past the left post and also put a volley just wide.
But then, out of nowhere, United conceded completely against the run of play.
Iniesta, who broke Chelsea hearts with his last-gasp goal in this season's semi, slalomed forward and fed Eto'o on the right. The Cameroon striker dropped a shoulder, cut inside Nemanja Vidic far too easily and prodded in a right-foot shot which found its way under the diving Edwin van der Sar.
ResponEliminaIt was a savage blow, which knocked the stuffing out of Fergie's men. Suddenly they were nervous and ponderous, while Ronaldo forgot he had any team-mates by shooting from daft angles when there were better passes on.
Argie star Messi began to cause serious problems. He fizzed one left-foot shot just over from 20 yards and, as he ran at United, the ball seemed glued to his blue boots.
United skipper Ryan Giggs had surprisingly been employed as a striker, with Park playing deeper than expected. But it was not working. The PFA Player of the Year was not seeing any of the ball, while behind him Anderson was struggling to get into the game.
Meanwhile, the ineffective Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo were getting ever more frustrated, waving their arms at one another in exasperation.
Fergie had to change it and introduced Messi's fellow countryman Carlos Tevez at the interval in place of Anderson.
It just meant more gaps for Xavi to exploit. His gorgeous pass found Henry, who turned Rio Ferdinand inside out before seeing his near post effort saved by Van der Sar.
Messi then went down in the area screaming for a penalty, claiming he had been pulled back by John O'Shea, while Tevez's first act was to fell Iniesta just outside the area.
It was a real chance for Barca and United breathed a sigh of relief as Xavi's right-foot curler rattled an upright.
Time for another United forward and on came Dimitar Berbatov for Park. It was almost 4-1-5, as Giggs linked with the attack again leaving Carrick to do the work of three men. But Barca were too good not to make the most of the spaces.
Xavi had time to line up a deep cross over the head of Ferdinand and there was
5ft 7in Messi, leaping two feet off the ground to arch his neck and head into the far corner.
United did have a chance to pull one back, when Berbatov's cross found its way to Ronaldo at the far post.
But he was denied by Valdes and that was the end of that.
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