Will
20-04-2006, 02:28 AM
Bit surprised no-one's mentioned it, someone usually has...
We could and should have scored more goals I think, but at least we didn't concede an away goal and having had 9 consecutive clean sheets thus far in the CL I think it's a decent result. Especially since they only progressed past Rangers and Inter on the away goals rule - and we're unbeaten thus far in the CL having only failed to win one away game (when we had a 2 goal advtage). And I'm pretty sure we haven't conceded any goals away from home in the CL this season, thus far at least.
And to think the Sky commentators said it'll be a nervy game ib Spain, there's no reason to think the players will be nervous based on the games up 'til now, nor should they be, the commentators etc talked some crap really. Making a bigger deal of their possible penalty appeal (when there's no gurantee's they'd have scored) than our cast iron goal that was wrongly disallowed. And they tried to talk up the possibility of us messing it up all match, the knob heads. But still.
I'm pretty happy with that, Villlareal created little if anything and Reyes should be back for the next game. I was a bit surprised Wenger took off Freddie and Hleb for Van Persie and Bergkamp though, the former gave us width and caused them a lot of problems, whereas the latter two lack real pace and gave us little width. It would have made more sense to bring on Bergkamp for Pires say, and play him in behind Henry, where he belongs, but still, can't complain!
We could and should have scored more goals I think, but at least we didn't concede an away goal and having had 9 consecutive clean sheets thus far in the CL I think it's a decent result. Especially since they only progressed past Rangers and Inter on the away goals rule - and we're unbeaten thus far in the CL having only failed to win one away game (when we had a 2 goal advtage). And I'm pretty sure we haven't conceded any goals away from home in the CL this season, thus far at least.
And to think the Sky commentators said it'll be a nervy game ib Spain, there's no reason to think the players will be nervous based on the games up 'til now, nor should they be, the commentators etc talked some crap really. Making a bigger deal of their possible penalty appeal (when there's no gurantee's they'd have scored) than our cast iron goal that was wrongly disallowed. And they tried to talk up the possibility of us messing it up all match, the knob heads. But still.
I'm pretty happy with that, Villlareal created little if anything and Reyes should be back for the next game. I was a bit surprised Wenger took off Freddie and Hleb for Van Persie and Bergkamp though, the former gave us width and caused them a lot of problems, whereas the latter two lack real pace and gave us little width. It would have made more sense to bring on Bergkamp for Pires say, and play him in behind Henry, where he belongs, but still, can't complain!