Now that the league title is just about wrapped up, the United boss can spend more time doing his homework on the side that beat United in the same competition in 2009.
The bookies all fancy Barca to lift the trophy, but Fergie has more than just a little faith in his side and he is pretty sure that there is a way of stopping them.
"Obviously, Barcelona is the big one now," Ferguson told Sirius XM. "What we have to do is find a solution to the Xavi-Messi-Iniesta problem."
He added: "Everyone is searching for that because they are outstanding footballers. We have our share too.
"In the final last time we started off really well, then gave away a bad goal. After that Barcelona kept the ball very well, as they always do.
"We have players who can cause any team a lot of bother and hopefully those attacking players will give Barcelona problems that everyone thinks they are going to give us."