The Arsenal v FC Barcelona

De Guzman wrote:who'll be your central defenders?

if pep has sense it will be


--alves---Yaya---Milito---abidal

Dr Adel Sabah wrote:Another scabby late penalty for Arsenal I see, along with the ref booking and sending off Barca's two centrehalves to give Arsenal a slim chance in the second leg.


If I hear one more Arsenal fan complain about referees this season I am going to hunt them down and stab them in the eye. You've been warned.

Dare you.

ohhhhhhhhhh shit

Anyway, decent result considering how shit we were. As Prof said in the Arsenal thread, the fact we allow everyone to play against us is going to be our achilles heel.

Not overly confident in the second leg though.

Was anyone watching the match in Spain (or with Spanish commentary anyway). What did they say about Cesc scoring the pen? with some venom too.

By the way, Eboue

Wenger:

"We lost the ball too quickly, and watched them play but in fairness to the players they kept believing and going. They had chances and we had unbelievable chances and in the end it was 2-2," Wenger added.

"My regret tonight, and I don't deny we played a great side, we gave two cheap goals away. For me we had 70 minutes where we had every chance to win, which is what I told the players.

Yeh I saw that, pretty accurate to be fair.

With the formation we now adopt, it makes sense to adopt a high pressing game as I mentioned in the Arsenal thread. Not expecting much from the return leg.

It's Barca's to throw away IMO.

Strange for Wenger to say that. Seems like it was Barca who had the unbelievable chances and they also gave away two very soft goals.

Romford Pele wrote:Yeh I saw that, pretty accurate to be fair.

With the formation we now adopt, it makes sense to adopt a high pressing game as I mentioned in the Arsenal thread. Not expecting much from the return leg.

It's Barca's to throw away IMO.

Not quite, because we were the ones with the chances, and u had 1-2 good ones for a goal and thats it, and for most of the game it was us who had all the possession in the world to kill the game, but we didnt.

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Messiah wrote:As i said, i feared walcott's pace against Maxwell, but it was busquets fault for losing the ball and that was never a PK, but such is life.

2 away goals is good enough, can't see arsenal scoring two goals against us at the camp nou, Still puyol and pique are out which means milito and marquez (kas )

Uh. They only need to score 1.

come the fuck on jaime, my man, you know we are going to score at the camp nou.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7356114.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8010833.stm

English teams have your number (defensively at least) at the Camp Nou

English teams this, english teams that, blah, blah, blah.

You are assuming that Barcelona are certain to score (an opinion).
I am stating that your record at home against English teams in recent years isn't impressive (you can even throw in a 0-0 draw v Celtic too if you like). (A fact)

Facts

How many times have we failed to score against an english team, when we have the 2nd leg at home?

They can't come and close up shop like Chelsea and man utd, because they have to score to progress.

I not sure of our record once we have the 2nd leg at the camp nou, but i'm sure its pretty good.

When was the last time you played an English team with the 2nd leg at the Camp Nou? Us in 2006?

Since then you've played Liverpool, Man United and Chelsea. And your record at home is won 1 drawn 2. Maybe you are better suited to play Arsenal and maybe you will score, but don't take it for granted.

AHHHHHHH, ANYBODY WATCHING YOU'RE ON SKY SPORTS? CESC MAY HAVE A REPORTED BROKEN LEG

Just got in from the game.

It's difficult to sum up Arsenal, they are so enigmatic. They deserve to be castigated for such a poor performance in the first 70 minutes, but then deserve credit for fighting back from such a deficit against a brilliant side. It's very worrying how poorly we have started games against top teams, out-played and in most cases less application.

Barca were so much better than us. There was a gulf in class for the majority of the match. It was infuriating how easily they went to ground, and how generous the referee was for most of the match. It sometimes felt like no one was allowed near a Barcelona player. Having said that, my impression at the time was that it was a soft penalty so we might have been fortunate. Puyol's a tosser, so fuck him, but I felt we got a little lucky there. Glad we restored some pride, but Barcelona were a joy to watch. Can't help but feel that gaining pride may cost us in the long run as well. We've suffered a few big injuries, and despite being an uphill task Wenger will feel he has to go for it in the second leg, whereas at 0-2 he might have shifted his focus to the league.

Romford Pele wrote:AHHHHHHH, ANYBODY WATCHING YOU'RE ON SKY SPORTS? CESC MAY HAVE A REPORTED BROKEN LEG

15% for Wolves

In Wenger's estimations 2%.

Wonder what is the percentage that the Arsenal team will actually show up in Camp Nou?

Season finished for us if that's true.

BRING BACK RVP ASAP

TITO wrote:Wonder what is the percentage that the Arsenal team will actually show up in Camp Nou?

You're better than us no doubt, but you're getting a bit cocky don't you think?

CESC HAS LEFT THE EMIRATES ON CRUTCHES. SUSPECTED HE HAS BROKEN HIS FIBULA

Romford Pele wrote:

TITO wrote:Wonder what is the percentage that the Arsenal team will actually show up in Camp Nou?

You're better than us no doubt, but you're getting a bit cocky don't you think?

Just having fun.

So what are we looking at for the next tie then?

--------------VV
Alves--Toure--Milito--Abidal
------------Busquets
----------Xavi---Iniesta
Messi--------Ibra--------Pedro

vs

---------Almunia
Sanga--Campbell--Vermarlen--Clichy
-----------Song--Denilson
Walcott---------Nasri------Eboue
-----------------Bender

??

Romford Pele wrote:CESC HAS LEFT THE EMIRATES ON CRUTCHES. SUSPECTED HE HAS BROKEN HIS FIBULA

Spain are fucked now they're down to Iniesta, Xavi and Alonso how will they cope

Erm, replace Walcott with Rosicky and that's about right. Diaby will also start, so it may be Song CB.

L r dd wrote:

Romford Pele wrote:CESC HAS LEFT THE EMIRATES ON CRUTCHES. SUSPECTED HE HAS BROKEN HIS FIBULA

Spain are fucked now they're down to Iniesta, Xavi and Alonso how will they cope

Not to mention David Silva and GUTI SELECCION!

He broke a bone by taking a penalty?

What the fuck do the Arsenal staff do to there squad? and how did he manage to play?

We have the best physios in the country, it really is perplexing.

Who says you have the best physios in the country?

Broken leg confirmed by SSN.

@Coops, exaggeration.

RVP still a bit away.

Ramsey, Gallas, Fabregas out for the season. You're gonna struggle to make st tottenham day or w.e you call it.