Mixed zone. Golazo of Andres Iniesta has decided the going of the dieciseisavos of end of the Glass of the King before the Hospitalet (0-1). Once finalized the party, the midfield player of the Barça has been contented by to have marked. Next we reviewed the most outstanding reactions of the players of the Barça.Andrés Iniesta- “I am in favor contented of the goal. The firing has come out well” - the equipment knew that the party against the Hospitalet would not be a simple work. “All hill and is difficult much. Nobody has said that outside easy” - “we have tried to prepare the party as the rest and I believe that we have the eliminatory one of face. It is an artificial field and we are not customary, but it is the result well” - “the important thing is that the equipment continues transmitting those good sensations”. And in spite of the 0 to 1 we go away contentments because it is not easy to play this type of parties” - “the doorman has made great shutdowns, they have had its occasion, but we are contentments. In the return we will try to make the things good to be in the following round, that is the Pinto objective” Jose Manuel “I am contented because when you work reward to be able to play. ” - “I do not want to give more returning him. Whenever one is stopped or that is listened to pitido in the field they will watch to me. “Cristian Tello- “Already was in favor contented of the call. But to be to title in this equipment has been a great prize. ” - “I have the head in the B and will fight to raise and to wait for the opportunity. “Cesc Fàbregas- “to Us has put it very difficult. It has been a party very competed. ” - “we know what we want. And what we want is to arrive far in the competitions and for it we must play in all the fields, like this. ” - “the Hospitalet has been an equipment, very hard aggressive. They have been joined and cost very well to create spaces. But we have controlled the party well.”

FC Barcelona travel to Ukraine with one objective in mind: defeat Shakhtar and score as many goals as possible. Both objectives were accomplished. The 1-5 win of Guardiola’s team is more than enough to think that Barcelona and Real Madrid will battle for a place in the Champions League final. The first goal, scored by Andres Iniesta, came very early and change the plans of the local team. Their defensive line could not resist the counterattacks the the other four goals could have been a lot more. Dani Alves, Pique, Keita and Xavi scored the last four goals, and the leg was over for Shakhtar, that save their honor only with a goal netted by Rakitskiy.

In the world of soccer almost nothing is what it seems and the reality can change radically in a matter of seconds. Under these premises, the Barça considers the possibility of giving to a radical turn to its policy of signings it next season and to return to the past undertake the signing of the great objective bankrupt in… LEER+

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The Barça goes again to by Villa

Total joy for every cule fan. Barcelona played a game for the ages, a near-flawless Final that saw it defeat reigning English, European and world champion Manchester United, 2-0, to win the desired UEFA Champions League. Showing yet again why it is regarded as the most spectacular football team on the planet, Barcelona put on a display of ball-possession and passing skills that left Manchester mesmerized. Manchester Boss Alex Ferguson’s footballers, who were trying to become the first in 19 years to successfully defend their European title, were left chasing shadows. Twice, the shadows escaped and punished them. The goals came from two continents away. The first, in the 10th minute, was provided by Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o, who danced past defender Nemanja Vidic and fired a shot from close range that went in off the hand of Manchester United’s Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar. The second, in the 70th minute, was scored by Argentina’s Lionel Messi, who soared high into the air and headed Xavi’s pinpoint cross into the back of the net, with Van der Sar nowhere near the ball. It was the third triumph for Barcelona, which also won the trophy in London in 1992 when it still was known as the European Cup, and in Paris in 2006. This Barcelona team, however, is a class above even its illustrious predecessors. Combining self-belief with skill, talent with tenacity, it has swept all before it in the 2008-09 season, netting a record haul of goals in the process. With Wednesday’s victory, Barcelona achieved what no Spanish team before it had done, completing the triple by winning Spain’s Primera Liga, the Copa del Rey, or King’s Cup, and Champions League. It achieved all that under 37-year-old rookie boss, Josep “Pep” Guardiola, a former Barcelona ball boy and a starter on the 1992 European Cup-winning team. Messi and company held sway throughout. The Argentine star, the tournament’s top goal scorer, is now almost certain to take over from United’s Cristiano Ronaldo as the FIFA world player of the year. The celebratory scenes inside the Olympic Stadium were bittersweet for the Manchester United supporters, who had watched their team triumph in Moscow only 12 months earlier. It was a commanding performance by Barcelona. After the final whistle, “Titi” Henry paraded around the stadium with the trophy on his head. “I’ve been waiting so long to get this title,” Henry said to a Britain TV Channel. “The last five minutes were the longest of my life. You never know what can happen. We were playing against the best team in the world.” Manchester United had come back from the dead to snatch the European Cup from Bayern Munich’s grasp in 1999. This time, however, Ferguson’s team, despite the second-half addition of Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Bebatov to an attack that already featured Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, had nothing left in the tank. The loss ended the Red Devil’s record 25-game unbeaten run in the competition. “It was a killer first goal and they used it very well,” Ferguson stated. “We have to accept we’ve been beaten by a better squad.”