Arsenal need to sub Song, would be near enough suicide for them to go down to 10 against Barca in this mood.
Its shocking, its utterly irresponsible and unforegiveable that SOng hasn't been subbed, not least because he's been utterly ineffective and stupid. He just has this thing, running to win ball, ball long gone, missed it, still sticks out a leg just has to, OCD or something.
THe ref has already done the "no more, thats it" and since then Song's done 3 fouls, 2 stupid one barely a foul. What on earth is Wenger thinking, that being down to 10 will help?
Arsenal, first 8-9 minutes, Theo gets the ball, none of this, should I stay or should I go rubbish, got the ball ran directly down the field at them, thats what I want to see from him, apart from that, nothing since then. Theo is a 5 minute player, 5 minutes from the start, or 5 mins when he's subbed on, thats all you'll get out of him. When closing down or doing anything, the whole team was working hard and Theo is just jogging inbetween players. Theo was great for 5 minutes, worthless waste of space since.
Nasri's done absolutely nothing today, even when he beat someone and got in facing goal right on the goal line he god damned turned back and passed to CLichy 25 yards back, he's 10 yards from goal, blast it into the box and see what happens. 99% of the time Nasri elects to turn and pass backwards this season unless he's given the ball in a shooting position inside the box.
RVP, should he have done more with his chance, maybe, since then, unable to hold the ball up in general.
The simple thing was, as I said, attack them HARD like in the first 10 minutes and Barca look VERY vunerable, as soon as we started the rubbish sideways passing, I mean the second we decided against the "got the ball run at them instantly" plan they got into the game.
Djourou is so flat footed its a joke, him and Kos are never, ever ready to follow a run in behind them, ever, its offside or its a chance for the other team, they do not cover runs at all.
We play like we did in the first 10 minutes, we could quite easily win this, but too many people aren't pulling their weight. Theo's dissappeared, Nasri was never in the game, Song is one wrong move from going off, Wilshire/Fabregas in general have been brilliant, RVP just is not capable of playing lone striker without support, he just isn't the guy who can hold off players, bring the ball down and wait for support.
Song off, Bendtner on in a 4-4-2 and attack like mad, Theo off for Arshavin aswell, though let him have his 5-6 minute spell in the second half where he can be bothered to run.
Real threats to the barca defence...so close on a few occasions.
