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They're class all over the field. Dani Alves just never stops, he seems to be everywhere. Pique has come on leaps and bounds since leaving United, never really been a big Puyol fan myself, but he is regarded as one of the best defenders about. Abidal is massively underated by most and kept Evra out of the France team for years(has since moved to centre half to acccomodate Evra). Pedro, despite being quite average yesterday has been one of their best players this season. Busquests, Keita, Toure or whoever plays with Xavi and Iniesta does the job that's needed in there. Ibra, might have his critics but he is some player on his day. For me, they don't have any weak spots in their team, people go on about if you get at their defence you will score but teams rarely score against them, albeit not having the ball much is a major factor in this. I hope they tear Real a new one on Saturday. |
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If you count 2 goals in about 30 games as scoring goals then Dos Santos did score goals, doesn't really compete with nearly 20 that Pedro has bagged this season and the only person to ever score in 6 different competitions in one season. |
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Yeah, I watch them a lot, rather more than I should tbh, and Pedro is just small and quick, benefiting from the brilliance around him, quality, he ain't. |
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I have a funny feeling though that Inter will be in the final instead. |
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Dunno, I think he will go on to be a real world class talent, guess only time will tell. |
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I just though 'in his own way' Xavi had an equally impressive game. |
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Without doubt the most exciting footballer i have seen since Maradona, even eclipses fat Ronaldo in his pomp.
He is still only 22, and already he is justified imo being compared with the likes of Maradona, Pele, Cruyff, Zidane, Best and De stefano, is he better than all of these greats not yet perhaps but he's not far off. |
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Maybe 2 years ago, we'd have given them a £#%&!ing good go. They'd beat this united side without breaking sweat. |
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Barcelona are obviously a very good team.
But they are only joint top in Spain, with a team who haven't gone beyond the CL 2nd rd for about 5 years. And the team they beat last night haven't won anything at all for 5 years and are currently 3rd in the english league, which this season has been very very erratic at best. In the next round Barcelona will face a side that's in its first CL s/f for 7 years, despite winning serie a for the past 4 straight seasons and topping it again this time round And should they win then in the final they are pretty likely to face a team that has not won its own domestic league this season. |
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Not at all.
The idea that they could beat United "without breaking sweat" is pretty funny btw. Messi is sensational of course, and Xavi is the man. But Arsenal scored 3 against them and could have had more. That alone shows that they have some pretty fundamental weaknesses. |
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