After booking a place in the Champions League final, Pep Guardiola has looked to his opponents, with Manchester United the favourites to join them. If United do make the final, it will be their third in four years.
Barcelona beat United 2-0 in the Champions League after the reds failed to make the most of their early chances.
Guardiola believes this final will be different as our team has changed. Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez left that summer and the likes of Chicharito and Antonio Valencia have joined.
“We will wait and see who will be our opponent and we’ll prepare accordingly,” Guardiola said. “But if it’s Manchester United then it will be a different game to the final in 2009 – they are a different team with different strikers. A match is decided by many uncontrollable things. We were lucky in the beginning of that game and we were a bit better than them after that, but if we meet again it will be a different match. We will have to try and find their weaknesses, have the ball and attack.”
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