chanzhesheng

Away from home, SAF aims for draw and away goals. Luckily Man Utd draw away from home.
Most team play away from home always prefer defending over attacking. Even with the midfield of
Scholes, Carrick, Park and  Rooney United can produce attacking football. It is just SAF wants to defend the score line. Upon the second leg, Man Utd have the advantage. Altough SAF will most likely plays 4-5-1 with Ronaldo or Rooney or Tevez as lone stiker. Barca have very good stiker, have excellent midfielder but they have bad defence (but not bad defender). The reason why Barca buy Milito is because at Zaragoza, Pique makes him a better defender. Hell yeah Puyol will return to the side but I don't think Puyol and Milito have the ability to stop United from scoring more than Barca. Barca play sexy football but they lack the pace of the game. First leg Barca staack pretty slowly.

chanzhesheng

Individual prediction:

             Edwin van der Sar                                    Victor Valdes

Wes       Rio         Nemanja   Patrice      Gianluca      Carlos    Gabriel     Eric
Brown  Ferdinand      Vidic        Evra       Zambrotta    Puyol      Milito     Abidal

      Owen      Michael     Paul                      Andres       Yaya     Hernandez
   Hagreaves   Carrick    Scholes                   Iniesta       Toure       Xavi

   Cristiano      Carlos     Wayne                    Lionel        Samuel       Thierry
   Ronaldo      Tevez     Rooney                   Messi          Eto'o         Henry

almourinho

Defense of MU played quite well that nite. Demonstration of good individual skills (Erva, Carrick etc). Scholes also played good, but he can't play together with Giggs, the midfield will become too slow.

C Long's penalty is tricky, I don't know why he didn't place the ball again (a bit out of the penalty spot)