UEFA Champions League/Europa League 8/9/10 March *** Spoilers ***
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Soldato
Possession is about 65% to Barca.
Caporegime
Anyone got the passing stat? 
They’re going to have to come out and play some now. If they sit back for another ten minutes Barca will finish them.
Caporegime
It's been pure football porn from Barca so far.
5-0 against Leyton. Bender needs to come on. He will make Barca submit under the power of his awesomeness.
Soldato
Man of Honour
Knocked a lot of confidence from fans as well.
Caporegime
Indeed, if Bendtner has started then Messi wouldn't have scored. Bendtner would have outawesomed him.
Don
No real mention of Messi's skill to finish that, at first I thought he'd messed his first shot up but in fact he was just lifting it over the keeper to volley home 
Arsenal trying to do what inferior teams have tried to do to them in the past.
Its never worked for those teams, (who are better at defending than Arsenal), what on earth makes Arsene think he possibly had a hope of shutting out Barca over 90 minutes with the shambolic collection of donkeys he has in defence?
Nice to see the Referee dishing out the same kind of treatment to Arsenal as Barca got last match as well.
Its never worked for those teams, (who are better at defending than Arsenal), what on earth makes Arsene think he possibly had a hope of shutting out Barca over 90 minutes with the shambolic collection of donkeys he has in defence?
Nice to see the Referee dishing out the same kind of treatment to Arsenal as Barca got last match as well.
Caporegime
No real mention of Messi's skill to finish that, at first I thought he'd messed his first shot up but in fact he was just lifting it over the keeper to volley home
Football porn.
That was the money shot so to speak.
Wonderful, amazing and beautiful finish.
Man of Honour
41 - Arsenal have made just 41 touches in the opposition half in the first half, compared to 310 by Barcelona. Deep.
ATTACK YOU GOONERS!
ATTACK YOU GOONERS!
Soldato
It's basically the same as the first hour or so from the Emirates match last year. Players shaking in their boots, rushing their passes and not looking around them. Lets hope that stat of the team scoring first failing to win comes true eh?
They won't get 1-1 or whatever playing this badly. Diaby and Rosicky are as bad as they were last year in this fixture as well (which to be fair isn't much worse than anyone else on the pitch in yellow tonight).
They won't get 1-1 or whatever playing this badly. Diaby and Rosicky are as bad as they were last year in this fixture as well (which to be fair isn't much worse than anyone else on the pitch in yellow tonight).
Caporegime
No real mention of Messi's skill to finish that, at first I thought he'd messed his first shot up but in fact he was just lifting it over the keeper to volley home
thats what I thought until the replay
Caporegime
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OH well, who could have predicted it, Diaby sitting off their midfielders giving them a chance to just wait and wait then hit the lob behind the defence, did he learn nothing from being humiliated last year.
Fabregas clearly not match fit, looks tired, and yet we have him in the freerole close everyone down role, the least match fit player doing the most running and getting no where near, genius.
You've got RVP who can't win a long ball to save his life and now looks not far from a sending off, instead of Bendtner who won most long balls/goal kicks against a vastly better CB pair last year.
You've got Nasri who Arsenal fans cream themselves over, his passing has been appauling, he's done a couple silly fouls when he should pass he thinks he'll just go around 19 players, and every time we had to keep the ball in their half he gives it away, the most irritating being about him RVP, Sagna I think down in their left corner, instead of the 2 simple passes he tried to do them all and the ball went out for a goal kick.
Nasri is the most selfish player in the squad, turned into a demon IN THE BOX, and utterly useless outside it. If only some of this were predictable.
Diaby, its like we actively pay Denilson and Diaby 4-6mil a year(together) just to randomly kick the opposition in our box when the balls gone, should have been a yellow and a penalty, for entirely no reason.
Has diaby helped in midfield even once, no, he's fouled a couple times, shoulda conceded a penalty, passing/positioning horrendous, lazy, awful. Would Bendtner have single handedly won the game no, would he have given us an out ball and generally finds someone from a header/chests it down and passes to his own team, yes, would that have brought RVP, Rosicky, Cesc and even Nasri into the game more, yes.
How the hell is Diaby still at Arsenal, Diaby and Carrick still playing at the top two clubs in the league is just embarassing.
Can we still win, sure, can we win with Diaby, Rosicky, Nasri, Cesc, all playing rubbish, not likely, can we do anything if RVP has no support, no. Does 4-5-1 leave RVP horribly isolated whenever we play a decent team, yup.
But kudos to the tactical master Wenger, playing right into their strengths, rather than playing to ours, wooo.
Fabregas clearly not match fit, looks tired, and yet we have him in the freerole close everyone down role, the least match fit player doing the most running and getting no where near, genius.
You've got RVP who can't win a long ball to save his life and now looks not far from a sending off, instead of Bendtner who won most long balls/goal kicks against a vastly better CB pair last year.
You've got Nasri who Arsenal fans cream themselves over, his passing has been appauling, he's done a couple silly fouls when he should pass he thinks he'll just go around 19 players, and every time we had to keep the ball in their half he gives it away, the most irritating being about him RVP, Sagna I think down in their left corner, instead of the 2 simple passes he tried to do them all and the ball went out for a goal kick.
Nasri is the most selfish player in the squad, turned into a demon IN THE BOX, and utterly useless outside it. If only some of this were predictable.
Diaby, its like we actively pay Denilson and Diaby 4-6mil a year(together) just to randomly kick the opposition in our box when the balls gone, should have been a yellow and a penalty, for entirely no reason.
Has diaby helped in midfield even once, no, he's fouled a couple times, shoulda conceded a penalty, passing/positioning horrendous, lazy, awful. Would Bendtner have single handedly won the game no, would he have given us an out ball and generally finds someone from a header/chests it down and passes to his own team, yes, would that have brought RVP, Rosicky, Cesc and even Nasri into the game more, yes.
How the hell is Diaby still at Arsenal, Diaby and Carrick still playing at the top two clubs in the league is just embarassing.
Can we still win, sure, can we win with Diaby, Rosicky, Nasri, Cesc, all playing rubbish, not likely, can we do anything if RVP has no support, no. Does 4-5-1 leave RVP horribly isolated whenever we play a decent team, yup.
But kudos to the tactical master Wenger, playing right into their strengths, rather than playing to ours, wooo.
Arsenal have done a good job defending so far compared to the first half of the first leg, they've just not created anything whatsoever going forward.
Now they have to throw caution to the wind and attack they can afford to concede another goal, I fear they're going to have a man sent off though.
Now they have to throw caution to the wind and attack they can afford to concede another goal, I fear they're going to have a man sent off though.
Anyone got the passing stat?
337 passes completed. 70% possession.