The European championship league finally came to the end. The finale was held in the Roma Olympic stadium, attracting the whole world’s attention. It is between Manchester United and Barcelona. In fact, I like neither of these two teams. The teams I support are Liverpool FC and Real Madrid. Coincidentally, their respective implacable foes are Man U and Barcelona. I do not like these two teams and even hate them to some degree. However, the two teams which entered the finale are indeed two of the best teams in the world. Furthermore, they truly played fantastic games this season. So the finale is a decisive battle between two strong teams.
As a fanatic of soccer, I decided to watch the remarkable game though it started at 2:45. I expected it deserved it. The Man U creating many good chances in the first ten minutes. Cristiano Ronaldo was very active to make a goal. But the situation changed suddenly. Samuel Eto'o scored at Edwin van der Sar's near post in the 10th minute after escaping Nemanja Vidic. It became the turning point of this game. After that goal, the Man U started to be a little scatterbrained. Barcelona's peerless midfield pair of Andres Iniesta and Xavi ruled midfield with a display of passing perfection, making the ball stay in the half pitch of Man U. Man U did not come up with some good ideas to solve these problems, to restrain Barca’s attack. They were very passive and could not threaten the Barca’s goal. The finale became Barca’s time. In the 70th minute, Xavi was the creator with a cross that looked too high for Messi, but he expertly soared to send a header over Van der Sar. 2:0! There seemed to be no suspense to the final result. But Man U kept on threatening Barca’s goal. Valdes stopped a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, and van de sar stopped one from puyol as well.
Finally, Barcelona won the championship league even though I am not so happy about that. Hope Liverpool and Real Madrid will play better in the next season. Either of them winning the cup is ok.
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