Champions League Semi
By victiego
@victiego (48)
Ireland
April 19, 2010 6:34am CST
Its champions league week again and its the penultimate games before the barnabeu showdown in the finals. So its Barca vs Inter Milan and Lyon vs Bayern Munich for the first leg before the return legs in a week.
with due respect to Lyon and Bayern, I think the game that will attract more interest will be Barca vs Inter for obvious reasons.
I think this will be a tight game and Barca will not enjoy as much space as they did with Arsenal. Inter's Defence is more tight and Maicon is a gem of a Left back.
Hope its a good game and Messi can show us more thrilling stuff.
Lyon vs Bayern might actually be a more open game
your thoughts?
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@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
20 Apr 10
Hi victiego,
Barcelona versus Inter Milan would be the must watched game for football fans around the globe this week and next week. This games would be the games between the wizardly kid from Catalan against the master of tactics from Milan. It is too rude to excluded the importance of other Barcelona players but Lionel Messi would be the talking points especially after he destroy Arsenal at Nou Camp.
With his pace and dribbling skills, Lionel Messi once again needed to produce his wizardly touch and help Barcelona win the first leg at San Siro. But he would definitely find it harder to tackle experience Inter Milan defenders then young Arsenal's. He also might be tightly marked. Inter Milan defenders confidence must be sky high after preventing Juventus from scoring in their week end match a few days ago.
There is no doubt about Jose Mourinho abilities as a coach and he can change his tactics depend on their opponent, just like what he did when they meet Chelsea before. There is a possibility that he would once again change his tactics in this match to safeguard their goalkeeper for the terrorizing Barcelona forwards. The most important thing he might do it tightly mark Lionel Messi and Xavi. If they could do this effectively, they would lessen the pressure on the defenders and goalkeeper. They would try to win the middle of the pitch battle.
This game also give an advantage for Inter Milan because Barcelona need to take bus ride for almost 1000 kilometer journey to be at San Siro because the closure of the airport due to volcanic ash. This would be a very tiring journey for Barcelona players and this might effected their performance.
@harabi (59)
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20 Apr 10
Today is the match between Inter(Milano) and Barcelona.... great match I think.It will be very interesting match between two of the bests teams in Europe.Inter playing good football,they have very good players... but I think it wil be hard to win the match.The player of Barcelona are in very good form... and with the incredible Messi in the team Barcelona will win the match :)
