Manchester United Vs Barcelona Highlights: Champions League Highlights

By Football Daft at 29 April, 2008, 2:52 am

The 2nd leg of the Champions League semi finals get underway tonight and the Tuesday fixture this week is Manchester United Vs Barcelona at Old Trafford. Barcelona and Manchester United drew 0-0 in the first leg last week at the Nou Camp in a game which disappointed after all the hype and expectations of it going to be a Champions League classic but in truth it was far from it. Manchester United were a shadow of their usual brilliance in the Nou Camp last week and the performance against Chelsea at the weekend was less than impressive so they will have to get it together and better themselves greatly tonight if they are to have any chance of reaching this years Champions League final in Moscow.

Barcelona themselves have fallen off the pace in recent times with a string of poor results and are now struggling for 2nd place in La Liga, sitting in third place 4 points behind Villarreal. Barcelona’s performance last week in the 1st leg against Manchester United wasn’t all that great either and they too lost at the weekend going down 2-0 to Deportivo so the form and momentum is just not with them at the moment. Manchester United will be the favourites to win the match tonight and progress to the Champions League final in Moscow but once you reach the semi finals stage of the Champions League you should right no one off as any of the teams left are capable of going all way, form or no form and you can bet your life that Barcelona will be giving it their all tonight at Old Trafford.

Wayne Rooney and Nemanja Vidic are big doubts for Sir Alex Ferguson but he is hopeful they will both be fit. Rafael Marquez is suspended for Barcelona after picking up the maximum for yellow cards however Carlos Puyol is back so he will go straight in there at the back. Midfielder Yaya Toure is a doubt with an ankle problem.