Arsenal -v- Barca, Champions league Q/Final 1st leg

mike65

Where's Eto when you need him?

Pepe LeFrits

OPENROAD wrote: »

Cesc and Gallas both obviously not fit.

On the bright side it is still 0-0, Arsenal can't play as bad as that in the 2ndd half, also feel Nasri has looked good.

Sadly, they can.

First 45 vs United at Old Trafford in the CL semi final was like that last year. Totally overrun, Almunia the hero. Unfortunately the second 45 was exactly the same.

MementoMori

Good games just zip by.

Bad games crawl by.

This has been great stuff and has flown.

0:0 = :eek:

I think someone told the Arsenal side that the game kicked off at 20:00.
Almunia thought he was just warming up which was why he was able to make so many saves.

paul150

Song has been immense again, our best player by far. one good half from almunia doesnt make up for all the crap ones this season

APM

Frisbee wrote: »

He's not though is he

His price tag says differently (Or should I say the price that was paid for him said differently)

OPENROAD

Lump on Arsenal @7/2

redout

cant recall a single jizz moment in the opening 45

bernardo mac

You'd never know folks,Barca might go stale. But quite often in the last 15-20 mins Barcelona up the tempo.Gonna be tough!

Headshot

OPENROAD wrote: »

Lum on Arsenal @7/2

mad man

give it to me and ill invest it wisely for ya

Johner

Frisbee wrote: »

Busquets did his best to get him booked tbf.

He has been doing it every time he gets fouled!

Frisbee

APM wrote: »

His price tag says differently (Or should I say the price that was paid for him said differently)

Price != Being overrated

Evil_Clown

Get the ball to Nasri as much as possible 2nd half he has looked dangerous with the limited possession he has got

nicklauski

mike65 wrote: »

Where's Eto when you need him?

Italy mate. He left in the summer :P

flahavaj

Frisbee wrote: »

He's not though is he

He polarises opinion. People either totally overstate how good he is, or don't rate him at all. There is no middle ground with him. I tend towards the latter myself tbh.

Frisbee

I hope Wenger is beating them with a sack of doorknobs in the dressing room.

greendom

paul150 wrote: »

Song has been immense again, our best player by far. one good half from almunia doesnt make up for all the crap ones this season

Nasri and Almunia deserve credit too.

I agree Song has been superb but that booking was amazingly stupid :mad:

Spiritoftheseventies

nicklauski wrote: »

Italy mate. He left in the summer :P

think he scored the winner against Chelsea as well

leninbenjamin

2 injuries and Cesc out for the next leg. I know we're getting schooled, but Jesus Christ we never get any luck in the big games.

cson

I hope Wenger throws on the DVD of Stuttgart v Barca 1st leg for how to play against them. How anonymous has Fabregas been?

Barcelona are excellent, great gameplan.

mike65

nicklauski wrote: »

Italy mate. He left in the summer :P

I know, still he's missed a couple of chances for Inter apparently tonight.

tony1kenobi

Frisbee wrote: »

I hope Wenger is beating them with a sack of doorknobs in the dressing room.

I reckon he's beating his sack and knob off the dressing room door.

Pepe LeFrits

Frisbee wrote: »

I hope Wenger is beating them with a sack of doorknobs in the dressing room.

Diaby needs it. He's been absolutely gack - virtually every time he's tried to control the ball he's given it away.

There is space down sides of the Barca centre-backs, but the central midfielders need to start playing some decent passes.

Stevecw

cson wrote: »

I hope Wenger throws on the DVD of Stuttgart v Barca 1st leg for how to play against them. How anonymous has Fabregas been?

Barcelona are excellent, great gameplan.

But in fairness to Fabregas you can tell by him, he is nowhere near fit. But with 2 subs used already, they might need him to do the 90 mins.

redout

I would say Pep is offering up a bollocking himself with all the misses Barca have had.

Really should have a couple of goals up on the board.

Bukman13

Interesting to see Barca playing a 4-4-2. with Pedro on the right and Keita on the left. They have targeted Clichy the whole match, with Alves and Messi drifting over to that side. Nasri needs to provide more help to Clichy he has been caught ball watching on more than one instance.

Arsenal have came back into the game near the end of the half. If they can keep it up I think there is a goal in it for Arsenal.

Barca have been fantastic at pressing the ball high up the field, the second they lose possession. Only for poor finishing the game would be over imo.

I was gutted for Fabregas, It looked a harsh enough decision from the ref.

Sútalún

Ah shít all the Arsenal players have terminal diseases.. Johnny just announced it.

Bodhisopha

Just turned on RTE. Fabregas has a terminal disease? Very sad

redout

Goal.........

1 - 0

Ibra

IvySlayer

GOOOOOOOOOALL FOR IBRA!!

amacachi

There's Almunia for ya.

Frisbee

I see we've put the real Almunia on in the second half

Redzer7

OH Fúck off!!!

Paul Tergat

Almunia wtf?

gimmick

I see Arsenal made a 3rd sub, brought Almunia on for whoever that guy was in the first half

Doubthcha Ibra boy..

Liam O

lovely finish

kenon

Terrible stuff from Almunia. Went for a walk.

OPENROAD

ah well

Kev_ps3

Nice one!

Raskolnikov

Scores a goal like that, but misses a sitter from 6 yards

monkey9

eZe^ wrote: »

Rofl, it might be the worst one I've ever seen. :P He'll score though, mark my words.

I marked them!!!

leninbenjamin

Typical Almunia. Makes the hard stuff look easy and ****s up his abc's.

Stevecw

Oh disaster, Song let him go, and where was Almunia going????
Can't believe worst player on the pitch scored

amacachi

OPENROAD wrote: »

Lump on Arsenal @7/2

Nice.

Spiritoftheseventies

Terrible goalkeeping from Almunia. All that good work undone

James Forde

missed it :mad:

Kev_ps3

Stevecw wrote: »

Oh disaster, Song let him go, and where was Almunia going????
Can't believe worst player on the pitch scored

Worst player on the pitch I would take him any day of the week and twice on Sundays over Bentner.

amacachi

Reckon this still has the making of a slapping.

Soby

What this about terminal diseases?

artanevilla

What's up with Pat Rice's face? It's all cut or something.

Stevecw

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Worst player on the pitch I would take him any day of the week and twice on Sundays over Bentner.

True, forgot he was there actually. Done nothing as usual so i kinda forgot about him.
Ibra is 10 times the player Bentner could ever be, but is still pretty bad.