Saturday, 25 July 2015

Champions Cup: Barcelona vs Manchester United

FC Barcelona disputed this Saturday their second preseason game against Manchester United in the Californian city of Santa Clara (USA), which will be the penultimate match of Barca on American soil (3:00 pm).

Despite being preseason, this game stands out as one of the most attractive that can be seen in Europe and in the United States has generated great expectations, and also the recent history that both moves on the fighting in late League Champions.

First, this will be the first game in which Barcelona and Manchester United will face clashed since the end of 2011, but even just have nothing to play for the English have wanted revenge against which results last season is the best team in Europe.Both the European Cup teams also played in the 2009 edition, always with Barça triumph.

The same English United striker Wayne Rooney has proved that not forgotten the losses in both finals to recognize that Barca "were better". The captain of the Red Devils scored the 1-1 at the end of 2011, which soon served his team, who ended up losing 3-1.

It will also be a new opportunity to see the more unusual as Sergi Roberto and Marc Bartra, and Sandro, Munir and company, who did such a good role in the first game against Los Angeles Galaxy (1-2) and this year should give a step forward so they would not escape the train role in the first team.

Another of the attractions is on the bench, where coach Luis Enrique Martinez was reunited with one of his coaches during his time as Barca player: Louis van Gaal.The Dutch agreed with him in two stages as Barca and twelve years later again face to face, this time both on the bench, but on different computers.


The English team will be orphaned in the band and Van Gaal knows that the canary would be a reinforcement of luxury for a team since losing the final two against Barca seems to raise its head, to the point that two seasons ago and was classified to play in Europe.

Barca are now the fifth of this competition, which features ten teams, which each only played four games.
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