After several weeks of preparation and of a first round that finish with advantage of the Catalans, FC Barcelona and Manchester United measured in the Camp Nou by a place in the semifinals of the Champions. After the 0-1 in Old Trafford, the ones of house looked for a favourable result that avoided the surprise, and precisely, the visitors longed for another traced back historical in the City Condal.
Given the precedents of both applicants and the history written along all these years, anybody wanted to lose an event of such magnitude, and in addition to an excellent assistance that filled the terracing of the coliseo Barcelona, the loge of personalities was full of legends that visited the stadium in a so distinguished day.
By part of the English square, could palpar the air of 'finalísima' that awarded the meeting the 'network devils', since until Barcelona displaced one of the members stood out of the directive and owner of the entity, the American Avram Glazer. The myth of the benches Sir Alex Ferguson also strolled by the lawn before the pitido initial, and conversed animadamente with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The edict barcelonista had a more numerous representation, and ex players like Rivaldo, Gheorghe Hagi, Gheorghe Popescu, Iuliano Belletti, Patrick Kluivert, Michael Laudrup or Laurent Blanc, that dressed the two T-shirts, attended to the appointment, in which also it left see the widower of the died Johan Cruyff, Danny Cruyff.
Other culés recognised saw it from house, as they ensured Pep Guardiola that faces his own challenge this same Wednesday against the Tottenham in an eliminatory that it has to trace back, or Gary Lineker, that does not lose detail of the path of his ex team and paginates his interests with his work like commentator.
The Barça, semifinalist of the Champions
After a first-half in which the Manchester United began presionando, went the Barça the one who struck and allanó the way to the semifinals of the Champions. The errors of the 'network devils', especially a failure clamoroso of David of Gea, allowed that Leo Messi sentenced the crossing with a doublet, before the goal postrero of Coutinho. The Ajax of Amsterdam, that deleted to the Juventus, will accompany to the Barcelona in the next round, although by the another side of the picture.