EPL, Premiership, English Premier League

Rooney and Vidic were both out with injuries from the previous encounter with Barcelona last week, as a result Nani was on for Rooney but playing as a right midfielder, Ronaldo and JS Park started this time for United. Puyol returned in this game after being suspended, Marquez however was out. The game started very quickly with the Barcelona players attacking quickly and being cut down multiple times. But soon after that the game swung to and fro with both teams struggling to string passes together. However, in the 14^th minute Ronaldo threatened Barcelona about 5 yards outside of the box, with 2 defenders around him one of the defenders stole the ball but passed it right into the path of Scholes who rocketed the ball with the outside of his foot and into the top right of the Barcelona goal.In the 18^th minute Messi threatened against Brown with Scholes chasing behind; he ran towards the box and darted between them and shot a nice curling shot which could have easily gone in had Van der Saar not been paying attention. Deco threatened a couple times with hard shots missing which missed each time by a foot. Nani had a great chance in the 40^th minute when JS Park crossed the ball a few yards away from Valdez, Nani jumped up high and headed the ball; with the entire goal open to him he headed it wide. The 2^nd half was not remarkable and showed a few yellow cards but the end of the game was flawed by Patrice Evra’s injury. United won with 1-0 aggregate and moves on.