truthfully and take your red specs of for a minute

if ferie starts with our best team we have a good chance. any fannying around with tactics will cost us dear. i'm not confident with utd in europe for some reason. under estimate Barca at your peril.

nft.

while Barca & the vermin have the luxury of resting their entire team for this weekends fixtures United & Chelsea don't.

That & injuries cost us this years, thankfully were not suffering on the injuries front this time round.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

Can anyone explain to me why we CANNOT win?

Originally Posted by Rhodzy

Because it's a champions league semi final.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

and?

Originally Posted by puressence

one winning semi final under ferie

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

Ah I see, so we can completely ingnore the relative merits of the two teams and just go off that.

Originally Posted by puressence

are you forgetting the teams that have beat us in the semis

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

No but i'm also not ignoring entirely the massive strides our squad have taken in two years. we have some of the best players in the world playing for us, probbly THE best too. the idea we CANNOT win is just idiotic to me.

Originally Posted by puressence

3 nil barce

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

Good for you, no surprise either. Another gutless shithouse.

Originally Posted by Crumps

How does the performance of previous United teams have any bearing on this one?

Originally Posted by puressence

this is our tenth semi in history .forgive me for having doubts

United have lost 10 previous European semi-finals out of 13 off the top of my head.

To me that suggests something more than just the usual drivel about Ferguson's suspect tactics or the imo more accurate players £#%&!ing it up reality check. Something about Manchester United? The teams that have lost these matches have usually been considered well capable of winning the competition.

Anyway, Barcelona have some fantastic players, as do United. If everyone plays well they'll be too good to cancel each other out and it'll be a festival of football. Doubt that'll happen, but only a fool would back against United scoring at least once.

Originally Posted by puressence

can you see us winning tomorrow night

Yes if we perform