Playing pretty football against Barcelona really did Arsenal a lot of good, didn't it?
As it did for Man Utd last May...
Inter Milan were spot on with their tactics against a team they knew was better than them. They'll play differently against Munich.
I wish people would stop saying that Arsenal played entirely crap, and not at all pretty football against Barca, great "pretty" football could have beaten them, bad football couldn't and we played bad football.
I'm not sure why people are saying Inter sat back in the first leg either, bar a single chance before Barca scored they'd created very little but had a lot of crap lateral passing nonsense going on, Inter had 2-3 great chances to score before Barca's first goal and got forward PLENTY of times throughout.
This game though, was shockingly poor, I find it hard to call the ref bad, in anyones particular favour that is. Busquets is one of their worst divers, there was no speed in the arm up, it was a simple "where is the guy" feeler that players do all game long every game, there was zero malice, no speed, it wasn't a foul let alone a red card and Busquets obvious looks checking if a decision had been made yet before he got up, were very similar to Barca the previous week and several players were doing that in the Arsenal tie aswell.
They've become cheats, and not very good at football compared to last year. Pedro, Bojan, Keita, Maxwell, Busquets don't have any creativity, its all Xavi and Messi this year. Last year Eto'o was the only out and out finisher in the team and they had creativity up the ying yang everywhere on the field.
Likewise Messi had a godo 10 or more fouls given against him, constantly catching people late, anyone else would have got a card, Alves dived ridiculously blantantly in the area, should have been a yellow. Barca got away with a heck of a lot and I think the ref was better for them.
As for time wasting and a goal at the end, which I can't decide how harsh it was for being dissallowed, they had 80+ minutes with what seemed like 80%+ of the posession they did entirely nothing with.
The only reason they scored, was a massive tactical mistake by Mourinho. Countless managers make the stupid mistake of changing a back 4 with a player not up to match pace in the dying minutes. Cordoba came on, sat in the back line and it fell apart. When somethings working, don't mess with it, put Cordoba on as a midfield terrier, not change a working back 4 that had been unbelievably good all game.
Glad Barca didn't go through, they've cheated their way through the competition this year, obviously good enough to win it but they didn't show anything across the two legs for me that made me want them to win the CL. Inter in the first leg were fantastic and at least showed some creativity and good football.
, they knew they couldnt beat barca on the attack so they did everything they could to get a draw/win. and it worked... 
