Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola expects to face a very different Manchester United side in this season's Champions League final to the one they beat in 2009. United have a 2-0 lead from their semi-final first leg clash in Schalke and Guardiola, whose Barcelona beat arch-rivals Real Madrid 3-1 on aggregate on Tuesday, expects to meet the Premier League side in European football's showpiece at Wembley later this month.
United play the second leg of their clash with Bundesliga side Schalke at Old Trafford on Wednesday night and the Barcelona coach will be watching. "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." Guardiola's side survived a nervous opening to outclass United in Rome two years ago, but the Barca coach believes that match - a 2-0 victory for the Catalans - was decided by a number of factors.
"A match is decided by many uncontrollable things," he said. "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." And Guardiola says he will not be underestimating the Premier League leaders or coach Sir Alex Ferguson..
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