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Did u watch our two games against benfica ? We are worse than Milan when we have possession and it's not going to change because we don't have the midfielder to do so.

Unless u are madrid, the best for formation to face barca is diamond. Drogba-Danny/Torres Lampar Meireles/essien-ramires Mikel Cole-terry-Luis-iva We don't need mata because we are going to play long ball and also we need our am to play defense. Drogba and mikel are the 2 key. Drogb need to win the battle against pique and mikel need to really make messi life miserable

Although our chance to beat barca is slim, we still have good chance. Barca defense for some reason always give other team one or two easy chance acore. Furthermore Milan showed that barca is very vurnerable in the air. Milan kept playing long ball to ibra and it caused them big problem. On the other side, Can we defend against them, i am not sure. A lot of people said mikel was motm against benfica, but if he give the same time and space to messi like the one he gave to aimar, we are toasted. In the end it's a good test for our team. Hopefully it's going to be a great game (our two games against benfica was boring

Awful performance and we are lucky to win. They did not theathen us becuse they loses one player very early in the game and we could not find the second goal to kill the game. For benfica fans in this forum, ucl is an annual competition so if you think the ref costed u, come back stronger next year

There is a difference between grinding for win and playing crap

the commentator just made a good remark, if RDM manage to beat guardiola and then mourinho in final, chelsea job is his

Let's just enjoy the game and hopefully the referee stop this happy card madness, let the game flow so that I can watch a good game.

I kinda agree, that should be a warning because it was not close to penalty box and he already has a yellow. Overall, we played exactly the same as 1st leg, defend+counter+we simply cannot keep the ball. We got one really soft penalty call and one cheap red card. Let's welcome barca in Bridge

Wow the referee is really card friendly

I don't think it was a penalty but who cares

The game is played similar to the 1st leg, we are pinned down in our own half. A good wake up call to everybody who think we dominated the 1st leg

You should come back in summer. I think we are going to have a big sale =)) ( bosingwa, meireles, malouda, and many more ) I don't think David Luiz is for sale though

The first penalty is a clear cut, the 2nd one is harsh but can be given

The only player who has been consistent for the whole year Peter Chech

Don't get me wrong,I rated our chance to go through before the 1st leg to be 50-50, now our chance is 55-45. I don't forget how many chances that Benfica had in that game and how our players could not string more than 3 passes

This is a funny thread, why should we be afraid of barca ? Maybe they are the best team in Europe but if you want to be the best you have to beat the best. And also if you want to lose, it's better to lose against barca rather than to lose against benfica.

IMO we actually should play s IMO We should play similar to the 1st leg, defend and counter. I am worried about their attacking power but their defense is very leaky+slow.

I think that is all bs. It just does not make sense to sell peter cech

IMO I thought benfica played a good game against us. Decent offensively but I think you will agree that you are very leaky at the back. I am really curious how do you manage to get a draw against MU. Ramires beat your left back with ease, how do you cope with again Antonio Valencia ?

If I am not wrong, the only signing that was made by roman was sheva. I read somewhere that Ancelotti wanted Torres. Again, I am not sure about this.

It's true that our manager does not have the full control but he still has big say in term of player that he want. - Mourinho brought Carvalho,Ferreira,Drogba, etc to our squad. I believe Mourinho wanted them - Scolari brought deco - AVB brought mata, romeu and I think he wanted perreira but we could not get him This summer is a very important summer for us and like I said before do we trust RDM to choose the right players ?

The big question is do we trust RDM to rebuild our squad ? Because building a new squad in not about man-management, it's about choosing the right players that can help us to win not only now but also in the future. Liverpool is a prime example. I think Kenny Daglish is a very good manager but Liverpool transfer had been disaster and to recover from such mistake is very difficult

Good post, I think everbody jumped into RDM badwagon too fast. He has done very well for us but like I said in previous post, RDM job is to win now and to win now you need everybody to be happy. On the other hand, We hired AVB to rebuild our squad which mean he has to make decision not only for this season but also for next season and that's why he has problem with player like kalou,anelka,alex,malouda,etc.

For me it's not Mikel. It's Terry, Cahill is new in europe. He played terrible game back in Naples. The biggest change that Di matteo made was ramires on the wing which helped us defensively, and I have to give RDM all the credit for our recent success but don't forget AVB was hired to bring long-term success for us, that's why he had problems with players such as anelka,kalou,alex,etc because they are not part of his plan. On the other hand, RDM plan is for this season only.

Not trying to defend mancini but Dzeko is a target man and a very good one, in fact he will be perfect for our team, but as a coach you have to decide what kind of player that suit your team better in certain game, Balotelli suit the way city play better. btw Ferguson does not play berbatov(target man) eventhough he was EPL top scorer.