Lionel Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo, Alex Ferguson facing Josep Guardiola, the strength at the inspiration: The sport betting odds Champions League final has to May 27, the best: Manchester United-Barcelona.English and Spanish will face in Rome by clarifying what is currently the best team in Europe: the granite block with an iron hand led by Ferguson and imaginative group of talented harmonized by Guardiola.
"The final everybody wanted," he wrote today in a prominent bloggers on the website of Manchester United. "It's the dream final," said Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
The Spanish team won its ticket to Rome on Wednesday so agonizing with a goal in the last breath of Andres Iniesta at Chelsea, while Manchester United was ranked with proficiency on Tuesday by defeating Arsenal at home by 3-1.
On both the Spanish midfielder, who put the 1-1 on the scoreboard on 93 minutes, kept repeating the Champions League final a year after the defeat to Chelsea at Manchester round of the Moscow criminal.
After the train crash which involved the bet football English duel in 2008, the Barcelona introduce a different element in the final in Rome: a less physical style and more focused on management of the ball.
"That's good, because if it did not appear that there is only one way of winning football," said Laporta, whose club was the only one not in English to get into the semifinals of the Champions.
Barcelona has received accolades around the world by the sight of his game but needs a victory in the European tournament up to realize the change of regime.
Manchester will have the opportunity to defend the championship title, something unprecedented since the competition is played under the current format and last reached Milan in the European Cup in 1990
The entire English is also the last achieved in 1999, the "triplet"-triumph in Champions League and Cup, a feat that's approach now Barcelona.
To avoid this, the United, World Club champion, is in Rome, with its star, Cristiano Ronaldo, the best moment of the season.
The Portuguese Golden Ball and FIFA World Player of 2008, will have the opportunity to put a blot on the season of his great rival for the award of best player in the world: Argentina's Lionel Messi.
At 21 years, Messi seems to lift the major individual trophies at the end of 2009, but that needs the collective title. And Ronaldo, who made two goals against Arsenal, is unwilling to surrender his scepter easily.
To win the individual battle, Argentina needs help from peers and the inspiration of its technical, Guardiola, who is completing its 38 years an unbelievable first season in the elite.
After defeat in the semi-veteran Guus Hiddink, the young technician will azulgrana another sacred cow in front of the bench, Ferguson, which leads to the front of the "red devils" from 1986.
Barcelona is seeking his third title, the fourth Manchester. Ancient Rome is the scene of a battle of styles, and generations of stars.
