Recent Matches and Preview to Champions League

Well, Its been a long time since anything was posted. Let me tell the jist of whats been happening with United.

Clash with Liverpool at OT:

I dint watch the match, but saw highlights. Not the usual nerve cracking game between these two but  the winner was fabulous. Great decieving run by neville, superb cross by fletcher and an amazing header by Park. Liverpool were the bogey team for couple of years now and the jinx is gone, at a crucial time! Nice to put one over your most hated rivals and one step closer to the record breaking title.

Clash with Bolton at reebok:

Saw the match. Never a doubt that united would win it and so they did. Convincing performance w/o rooney and rio, and to score 4, actually 3, one was OG, shows that united have goal scorers throughout the squad and we are not a one man team. Good to see berba score a brace, good for his confidence. He played really well in this game and we need that in the absence of rooney. Another game down and the countdown to the title reduces. Next up in PL, Chelsea at OT.

Preview to game with Bayern at Munich:

When the draw was made and we get bayern in quarters and a french team in semis, and with the way we are playing right now, every united fan has the feeling that its an easy path to the final at Madrid. I hope its an easy path. No qualms against bayern or lyon/bordeaux, I just feel United have too much quality in them to get through to the finals.

Bayern have a great team. Klose, schwiensteiger, robben, ribery, van bommel, all quality players. They are quite an attacking side and can score goals as they showed against florentina. But what they also showed is their weakness, defense. They let florentina score 4 and got through on away goals rule.

If we are solid at the back and not allow robben and ribery to create chances, then no doubt that united will score in munich and come with an away win probably. An away goal is very crucial in champions league and as we did against Milan, if we win away then we are 90% through to semis and the game at OT is a formality :)

Thinking of clashes  with bayern, the first one which comes to every United fan is the memorable and dramatic  champions league final at Nou Camp in 1999. I cherish watching this video time and time again and wonder, will there be a dramatic final than this ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWelmqZkrGE