Firstly, the red card was incredibly harsh, and I did laugh at Wenger in the post match comments where he was just trying to hold back a massive grin after saying that he told the ref exactly what he thought at the end of the game.
Anyway, the ref was poor for both sides tonight, early penalty should have gone Barcelona's way in addition to the one they had and the amount of chances that Dani Alves wasted to take a shot or play someone else in with a better ball and it could have been a cricket score. Yes maybe we would have done better with 11 men on the pitch and yes the second yellow was quite harsh BUT van Persie did lash out needlessly for his first yellow, although I was kind of pleased because of the amount of diving and complaining that Alves was doing. Also it was a bit of revenge for him kicking out at Nasri after a tackle.
I can't really complain that much about the result we were simply outplayed, they didn't embarrass us like last year, we did much better and in the end it was only a 1 goal deficit on aggregate, if Bendtner buries that late chance then it's a different game perhaps but meh, as Redknapp said in the studio if we had just won our group this could all have been avoided or at least postponed. 0 shots says everything you need to know, we didn't get any real opportunities, there was nobody up front to pass to, even less so after RVP was dismissed and we rarely made it out of our own half. I thought Wilshere was fantastic once again and I also thought the centre backs and the keeper were also. Almunia made some excellent saves, he could have maybe just guessed a direction at the penalty but you can't blame him for it.
Anyway, it's done and dusted now and I think in a way it's a relief, we're out, let's just move on and keep the ball rolling in the league, win the games we should be winning and give Utd a good arse kicking in the cup, and here's to next year in the CL.