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Originally Posted by noodlehair
I think they will.
I've got a bad feeling about it
If we thought we could "do" them, we wouldn't be playing with a ten man defence against them, being too shit scared to push forward from the edge of our own box.
They know we don't have enough assurance to really go at them, and they can play
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Whilst it is never going to be a walk in the park on Tuesday night I have to disagree with this somewhat.
I think that we were desperate not to concede a goal tongiht (and to be honest I think if they had scored one, they probably would have gotten more) that we kind of forgot about attacking. Rooney and Ronaldo out of position, Hargreaves at the back not in midfield, no Vidic.
I don't think that we will play the same game at OT, we looked poor at times when it came down to passing and keeping the ball, there were a few occasions when Ronaldo got free and there was no one with him, we were terrifed of the counter attack it seemed at times and I suppose, in a way, rightly so. Maybe the attitude wasn't fantastic at times, but I'd rather that and 0:0 than attack, attack, attack and getting caught on the counter attack and losing 0:1 or something like that.
I watched the game with a few friends who weren't overly impressed with it but at the end of the game when stats said that Barcalona had nearly two-thirds of the pocession and almost three times as many shots as we had and yet they still couldn't score against us, at home, in front of 93,000 of their fans. That, for me, is a fantastic positive.
Next week, we will be at home, in front of our fans, know that we have no second chance, may have even sown the league up on the Saturday, know that we can contain them at the back and probably have our regular back four back. It won't be easy and it certainly isn't set in stone, but we can do it and I saw little in tonights performance to make me think that we can't win next week.
Now if we play the same way at home, then we probably don't deserve to go through. But away tactics and home tactics need to be difference, especially over two legs (I'm not suggesting that you don't know this, just didn't want anyone else pointing it out). And I don't believe the tactics for the home leg will be anything like the same as they were tonight, that would be madness.