Barcelona lose friendly match

Barcelona 1 - 2 Manchester United

This is the result after friendly match at USA yesterday. Nani put Man United the lead in after 21 minute to give Man United a sweet revenge of their lose 9 weeks ago. 

All I can say is, this is classic move to score against Barcelona team. Counter attack and lack of concentration by Barcelona defensive players was pay off. 

However in the second half, Thiago make a beautiful strike into the top right corner after past one player. This give Barcelona chance to breathe for a moment before Owen complete the deadlock in the 75 minute. 

If you all wondering how he can score so easily. This is because Busquet make a careless pass to the back that gave Manchester United player to steal the ball and launch counter attack. Cleverly pass the ball to Owen to gave the one on one situation with Valdes. There is no way Owen can miss that sort of chance.

Well... this is only friendly match and hopefully Barca learn from mistake. Thiago was really impressive tonight. I just hope he can replace with Xavi when the time come.

Manchester United: David de Gea, Rafael (Fabio, 17'), Jonny Evans, Nemanja Vidic (Phil Jones, 78'), Patrice Evra (Chris Smalling, 46'), Nani, Anderson (Ryan Giggs, 46'), Tom Cleverley, Ashley Young (Gabriel Obertan, 62'), Wayne Rooney (Michael Owen, 46'), Danny Welbeck (Mame Biram Diouf, 77').

Barcelona: Victor Valdes, Jonathan dos Santos, Sergio Busquets, Andreu Fontas (Armando Lozano, 73'), Eric Abidal (Ivan Balliu, 73'), Ibrahim Afellay (Issac Cuenca, 43'), Andres Iniesta (Marti Riverola, 79'), Thiago Alcantara, Seydou Keita, Pedro Rodriguez (Javier Espinosa, 85'), David Villa (Carlos Carmona, 62').




Source:  Espnstar.com