The treble is OURS! Barcelona have done it, we’ve defeated Manchester United 2-0 to claim the Champions League and, subsequently, the first treble in the history of Barcelona and even Spain!Manchester United? Setting Cristiano aside, they weren’t even there! Our boys totally shut them down, and even our patchy defense was able to thwart what attack there was from them!
The reds attacked first, and second and third and fourth and fifth, but with Barca’s first surge forward came our first goal. Samuel Eto’o executed beautifully, it was a brilliant goal and Van Der Sar is probably still wondering where it came from. And we’re so glad because Samu was playing fantastically, it totally makes up for the mediocre performance he gave in the last two Liga matches. He went crazy celebrating, as did the team and the crowds and us and, we know, every Barca fan on the face of the earth. And that was just the beginning…
Barca continued to attack. When United did, our keeper and defense did well to stop them. They were incredible, even while lacking both our starting leftbacks as well as a starting center. The midfield was possibly our strongest point last night, Xavi and Iniesta couldn’t be more awesome! Prior to the match, Iniesta had been told by Pep that he was under no circumstances to shoot at the goal, lest there be too much exertion on his leg from the shot, since he’s just returned from injury; Iniesta followed his coach’s orders and though he did not shoot, he was just wonderful.
Then there was the fantabulous attack… Lionel Messi truly stands out as the best player in the world after this match, he couldn’t have been more amazing and of course, scored Barca’s second goal. It was unusual however, because Leo scored it with his head—and him the shortest player on the pitch! He can do anything… Leo is just something else. By the way, Messi debuted the new Adidas F50i boots in this match.
We’ve beat European and world champions Manchester United, and nothing can be said now against the fact that Barcelona are the best team in the world. And can anyone deny, either, that Josep Guardiola is the best coach, like, ever? He’s younger than a lot of players, had never coached a team before except for last season when he managed Barca’s second team—so zero experience at a first team level—and he came and took over Barcelona when they were in the middle of crisis, having completed two seasons without a single piece of silverware, and look where he got them.
But Pep is just a footballing genius. Setting aside his incredible record as a player, he’s the most phenomenal coach… he turned everything around for Barca, rebuilt the squad and inflicted his own rules and changes, turning Barca into a team that is just made of win. His first time coaching… and he leads Barca to their first ever treble (he’s also the third youngest coach ever to win the Champions League, the youngest coach to win it in almost fifty years, as well as the third one to have won it as player as well as coach). What manager has ever, or could ever, or will ever achieve that? It’s almost too astounding to believe.
League, Cup, and Champions… and it’s not like Barca scraped them up, either. The team’s victories have been fantastic, they’ve been unbelievably strong and they’ve scored buckets of goals, winning on goal differences of four and five and six, multiple times… they’ve broken so many records this season, they are undoubtedly the best team Barca has ever seen, or perhaps even the best that the world has seen… and it’s largely thanks to Pep.
Yet, he stands on the side when the boys are celebrating, he asks the home crowd at Camp Nou to give their biggest ever ovation for the players, he insists that the team could have done it all without him, he just pushes the spotlight away from himself and onto the players. His modesty… his effort… his devotion… his ingenuity… are all just staggering. Not to mention that he’s the hottest coach there could ever be! We are simply in awe of this man.
But no matter how he tries to avoid it, Pep will be recognized and applauded for all that he’s accomplished. The players celebrated their victory amongst themselves as Pep looked on, yes, but they soon rushed over to him, picked him up together and tossed him into the air, and though they’ve done it twice before this season, and it isn’t really something new, it has its own special meaning here because Pep is truly the one to thank for this amazing and historic treble.
The reds attacked first, and second and third and fourth and fifth, but with Barca’s first surge forward came our first goal. Samuel Eto’o executed beautifully, it was a brilliant goal and Van Der Sar is probably still wondering where it came from. And we’re so glad because Samu was playing fantastically, it totally makes up for the mediocre performance he gave in the last two Liga matches. He went crazy celebrating, as did the team and the crowds and us and, we know, every Barca fan on the face of the earth. And that was just the beginning…
Barca continued to attack. When United did, our keeper and defense did well to stop them. They were incredible, even while lacking both our starting leftbacks as well as a starting center. The midfield was possibly our strongest point last night, Xavi and Iniesta couldn’t be more awesome! Prior to the match, Iniesta had been told by Pep that he was under no circumstances to shoot at the goal, lest there be too much exertion on his leg from the shot, since he’s just returned from injury; Iniesta followed his coach’s orders and though he did not shoot, he was just wonderful.
Then there was the fantabulous attack… Lionel Messi truly stands out as the best player in the world after this match, he couldn’t have been more amazing and of course, scored Barca’s second goal. It was unusual however, because Leo scored it with his head—and him the shortest player on the pitch! He can do anything… Leo is just something else. By the way, Messi debuted the new Adidas F50i boots in this match.
We’ve beat European and world champions Manchester United, and nothing can be said now against the fact that Barcelona are the best team in the world. And can anyone deny, either, that Josep Guardiola is the best coach, like, ever? He’s younger than a lot of players, had never coached a team before except for last season when he managed Barca’s second team—so zero experience at a first team level—and he came and took over Barcelona when they were in the middle of crisis, having completed two seasons without a single piece of silverware, and look where he got them.
But Pep is just a footballing genius. Setting aside his incredible record as a player, he’s the most phenomenal coach… he turned everything around for Barca, rebuilt the squad and inflicted his own rules and changes, turning Barca into a team that is just made of win. His first time coaching… and he leads Barca to their first ever treble (he’s also the third youngest coach ever to win the Champions League, the youngest coach to win it in almost fifty years, as well as the third one to have won it as player as well as coach). What manager has ever, or could ever, or will ever achieve that? It’s almost too astounding to believe.
League, Cup, and Champions… and it’s not like Barca scraped them up, either. The team’s victories have been fantastic, they’ve been unbelievably strong and they’ve scored buckets of goals, winning on goal differences of four and five and six, multiple times… they’ve broken so many records this season, they are undoubtedly the best team Barca has ever seen, or perhaps even the best that the world has seen… and it’s largely thanks to Pep.
Yet, he stands on the side when the boys are celebrating, he asks the home crowd at Camp Nou to give their biggest ever ovation for the players, he insists that the team could have done it all without him, he just pushes the spotlight away from himself and onto the players. His modesty… his effort… his devotion… his ingenuity… are all just staggering. Not to mention that he’s the hottest coach there could ever be! We are simply in awe of this man.
But no matter how he tries to avoid it, Pep will be recognized and applauded for all that he’s accomplished. The players celebrated their victory amongst themselves as Pep looked on, yes, but they soon rushed over to him, picked him up together and tossed him into the air, and though they’ve done it twice before this season, and it isn’t really something new, it has its own special meaning here because Pep is truly the one to thank for this amazing and historic treble.
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