Both were absolutely fantastic. Koscielny edged it though, time after time he stepped out of defence and cleared up and distributed well.
Not even close, Wilshire was absolutely brilliant throughout, multiple times rather than under pressure give away a pass that went no where or was a bad pass he rode a challenge and came out with the ball in space, and able to move forwards. Something that Cesc has done for so long now, riding a challenge and moving forwards is immensely useful to the team, on top of every other part of his game being fantastic last night.
Djourou and Kos, multiple times were caught flat footed by passes in behind, unfortunately they always look flat footed, they conceded a goal doing it and probably were very lucky to have another dissallowed, and several others go just wide or not end up in the net. THey made that same mistake all night, they don't stand side on, the stand flat and facing forwards, when a runs made they don't match it, they just pray its offside. Yes Kos was huge in other situations, he made interceptions and he was very strong. But he got caught out MULTIPLE times, very easily, and just because it didn't cost us the win, it did cost us.
Bit angry at Wengers interview talk post game, he took a gamble and it paid off? Firstly the gamble of having Cesc, RVP, Bendtner, Nasri, ARshavin, Wilshire on, thats two strikers, two people we play as wingers, a DM and Cesc, thats how we should play every single game, and we frequently get into panic mode with 3 or even 4 strikers on the pitch.
THe problem is, Wenger thinks thats a gamble, against Barca, the very key to dominating them is attacking them, that should have been the starting line up and we should have pressed them the entire game. Barca seem to have come back from the internationals very badly, look how easily we got to them and how little they offered in the first 10 minutes and the 10 minutes after Bendtner/Arshavin were on, then we stopped going forward and were under constant pressure in the final minutes.
When will Wenger learn playing defensively and a defensive formation, with nothing but attacking players is the gamble, playing to our strengths, with our best players on the pitch isn't a gamble and will never be a gamble.
When we attacked, we were fantastic last night, Nasri/Theo/RVP weren't even involved in the game in the long periods we weren't pressing forwards.
I've said for years, with the right players on the pitch we've had a team capable of winning everything, Wenger only ever plays those guys as a last resort though, has cost us so many times for 5 years, and I fear its going to cost us VERY badly in the second leg.
