Barcelona vs. Manchester United: Barca’s road to UEFA Champions League final 2010/11----Part 2
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The Round-of-16
Arsenal 2-1 http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604
The two teams once again locked horns in the knockout round after meeting in the last season’s quarter-finals. Barcelona emerged victorious then, and the Gunners were definitely looking to make amends for the last year’s loss. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andrei-Arshavin-c5771’s strikes handed Arsenal an advantage going into the second-leg at Camp Nou.
Barcelona 3-1 Arsenal
The Gunners knew what it takes to play at the Camp Nou, as they were thrashed there in the last season’s fixture. Arsene Wenger’s troops looked sharper for majority of the first half until http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 the lead on aggregate. The Gunners eyed a glorious chance to seal the tie until Van Perise’s controversial sending off altered the proceedings. Barcelona took full advantage of the 10-men Gunners and scored a two-goal double salvo to seal the tie 3-1 on the evening and 4-3 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
Barcelona 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Next for Barca were the Ukrainian Champions, Shakhtar Donetsk, who were in the form of their life time. Shakhtar stunned everyone with their impressive attacking displays against AS http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Pique tormented the visitors to register a 5-1 advantage to go to the second-leg.
Shakhtar Donetsk 0-1 Barcelona
Overturning the huge deficit looked like a mountainous battle for the hosts and they just looked to delight the home fans with their attacking displays against a mighty Barcelona side. The hosts started confidently and should have scored at least two or three goals had they taken their chances. Lionel Messi scored just before the half time to make the Miners pay for their missed chances and extend the aggregate lead to 6-1. There were no more goals in the match, as the Catalans marched to their third semi-final of the competition in as many years.
Semi-finals
Real Madrid 0-2 Barcelona
The fans in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-c29670, and showed him a straight red card. Barcelona took full advantage of the 10-men Madrid and Messi, yet again, proved to be the difference. His brace put Barcelona a huge step closer to the final. An ill-tempered game provoked UEFA to fine the officials and players from both teams.
Barcelona 1-1 http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Real-c30728 Madrid
Jose Mourinho’s men were all out for revenge after a shameful defeat in the first-leg. However, things did not start perfectly for them and it was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcelo-c23554 could not spark his team to recover. Barcelona stormed into the final and set up a date with English powerhouse, Manchester United, at Wembley Stadium for May 28, 2011.
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