Should It Be Nani Or Valencia Against Barcelona?

Well there’s one simple reason why playing both may be the football equivalent of inviting Adele round for Sunday dinner: Ji Sung Park. Park’s been a revelation this season and was sorely missed when he went away to the Aldi Cup. Thankfully he returned in fine form –eventually- to help spur United on in both the Premier and Champions league. Dropping Park in favour of Nani or Valencia would be risky to say the least.

There’s always the chance Fergie could use Park centrally but I very much doubt it, he seems to prefer him on the left with Giggs playing more central alongside Michael Carrick.

Park surely has to play, which means that either Nani or Valencia doesn’t. The smart money’s on Valencia starting as he’s more inclined to do his share of defensive duties while Nani sometimes seems about has happy to track back as your average man would be watching a double episode of The Only Way is Essex.

Nani’s nothing if not a match winner and could he have the same impact as a substitute or would he do what he sometimes does when brought on late in the game and simply shoot even more than usual and be even more greedy?

Valencia’s been amazing since his return and has not only given Rooney something of a boost but seems to have elevated the entire team somewhat. With Fabio, Rafael and John O’Shea all having their faults when it comes to defending you’d think Fergie would want to give them maximum help which should mean Tony V.

However when you’re facing the ‘greatest club side ever’* it may be taking a chance that wins you the game and starting with the livewire that is Nani could be the key to achieving what many believe** impossible

So who would you start for the game? Or would you risk both at the expense of Park or even Giggs? Comment below please:

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19 responses to “Should It Be Nani Or Valencia Against Barcelona?”

  1. 31 says:

    I would prefer park and tony V. Marauding players might be wht we need to get and early goal to possibly break barca’s spirits. I would put nani later in the game to hold the ball and maintain possesion.

    Carrick and giggsy in the middle has been amazing for us. I would like to see them playing. But with fletcher coming back to form and after missing the last final, it would be a pity if he couldnt take part.

    My god! This 10seconds i took to think about the line up gave me a headache. Thanks god for united im not a manager. Its up to SAF and his stuff now.

    I BEL4IEVE

  2. john says:

    valencia must start ahead of nani. valencia brings energy always there to help out his right back and is more direct and i dont think abidal or whoever has the bravery to mark valencia will have enough to stop him look how he destroyed baines and cole. hernandez has to play aswell just so rooney can play a deeper role so he can help out his midiled and defence and also should park. if park plays the way he did against chelsea when he kept dropping in the central midfield, and rooney dropping back aswell will have a really packed midfield which im sure barca will have problems getting through. but hernandez has to be carfull with his first touch because it has tobe spot on becuase he wont be getting to much chances. plus giggs is a must play his the only 1 that can feed rooney and hernandez consistently and dictate the game. the only problem which fergie should really have is who to play flethcer for his energy or carrick for his vision. plus thats 1 area in which fergie must look at in the summer and an attck mid.

  3. jose says:

    one more thing is that playing against Ashly Cole on different occasions Nani has went out of games after receiving a couple tough hits, Puyol is fond of similar tackling and i’d hate to see a player go out of such an important game, Valencia on the other hand gets up laughs at Cole and within 10 mins has Mr big Stuff COLE hiding behind JT asking him to stop the machine that keeps bullying him down the wing, for the CL final it has to be the Machine Tony V on the right and the Oriental Duracell bunny JSP down the Left, and we’ll take it from there.

  4. dino says:

    Nice read!..for me I start both nani nd TV wide nd maintain d CM partnership of giggs nd carrick. I drop chicha on bench as he cn cm in 2nd half to run out d barca defence. So dis means Rooney up front alone wit park just behind him to link up d mf nd attack (he did dis well last season in d UCL b4 rooney’s awkward injury). So its a 4-3-3 nd cn be 4-5-1 if reason be.

  5. Michael says:

    It is immaterial who Sir Alex plays. Barca are simply too good to be stung by Man Utd. Pity – but thats the way it is. To be honest – Utd should pack their defence leaving only Hernandez and Rooney any further forward than the edge of their own penalty box. Needs must.

  6. Antonio Nani says:

    – VDS –

    Fabio – Ferdinand – Vidic – Evra

    Valencia – Carrick – Park – Giggs – Nani

    – Rooney –

  7. lolol says:

    i despise the diving pricks Barcelona. with that said. Manu will not have the ball for long. only team capable of stopping them was madrid. Marcelo, ozil, dimaria,CR7, carvalho,pepe are way better then any Manu players. as much as I hate to say it. barca will win

  8. Rajesh says:

    To some Utd fans commenting on Barca diving and acting, please friends be rational. Barca have never done that, when the opposition played football against them. Did you see those antics in Rome? You are saying this because of that 1st leg of CL. I am sure it was a tactic caused by the indifference of the Referee in the copa final.
    I am sure MU will pay football and Barca will reply with football.