arsenal vs barca

[Numeric]

i honestly didn't give arsenal any chance in either leg but they did really well last night

i felt barca under-estimated them a little bit

the second leg could still be the massacre that most people expected though

[ritaheed]

Well played Arsenal in the 2nd half - couple of good chances in the first half aswell, good to see them beat barca though!

[blistanbul]

arsenalllllllll!

[Esox Lucius]

fair play to them, I reckon it will be a different story at the nou camp though. wilshire was awesome last night.

[xes]

I missed the first half of this, which is a shame, cos it sounded like the half I'd have enjoyed the most. Fair play to the scum, you're going to get a good hard spanking at their joint though. (hopefully)

[Microdot]

First half it looked like Barca were gonna spank them, and probably would have done if their second goal hadn't been wrongly disallowed.
Arsenal improved a lot in the second half but, in truth, were pretty lucky to get the win.
Cracking game though, both teams played some great stuff.

[C.O.Prodigy]

was this a good goal disallowed?


edit: @ the end of the first half. I saw no replay of it.

[Numeric]

aye, the english media have kind of glossed over it

i don't think it will make any difference to the outcome of the tie

[Will]

aye, the english media have kind of glossed over it

i don't think it will make any difference to the outcome of the tie

Did they? I thought that cunt Adrian Chiles was disrespectful to us throughout, making out there was a huge gap between the teams when we had the better of the chances and had more shots on target.

Also, I think the way we played against them in the 2nd half is the way we'll play against them at the Nou Camp.

[Will]

Arsenal created more chances than Barca, they taught us a lesson in keeping the ball, but we taught them a lesson in terms of making your posession count. 95% of the time their posession didn't hurt us, it seems a bit defensive if anything, keeping the ball as far away from their goal as possible to try and make it harder for you to score.

It was pretty even until they scored with a sucker punch, then they were better 'til the end of the half. We came out strong in the 2nd half and were the better team until we took the lead, then we just seemed content to see out the win when we had them on the ropes and could have scored 2 or 3 more goals if we'd kept pushing.

I think we've got the beating of them now, both teams can play their game away from home, so I don't think it'll make much difference that we'll be at Nou camp, Arsenal's away form has been better than our home form in the Prem, but they've got to chase the game now and we've already shown we can decimate them on the counter attack.

Last year we were missing 5 or 6 of our best players and the players that did play lacked confidence and didn't play anywhere near as well as they can, but we're in much better shape this season and took confidence from beating Chelsea, and we can take even more confidence from beating Barca, especially in the 2nd leg.

We've been pressing the ball much harder, and further up the pitch this season, I thought Wilshere was the best player on the pitch, and Koscielny was great for the most part too, so it bodes well for the 2nd leg.

Now if it'd been United, they would have been destroyed by Barca!

[blistanbul]

stop spoiling the fun numberic, speaking of arsenal i love this tune:

YouTube - Arsenal - Estupendo (Compuphonic Main Mix)

brilliant!

[blistanbul]

numberic you are jealous with envy i see.

[Numeric]

jealous of what? no trophies?

[blistanbul]

jealous of what? no trophies?

jealous of real proper bloody team kiddo.

all built and developed unlike mc united and the scottish wanker you have on avatar.

[Numeric]

arsene has to build and develop his teams because the club can't afford to make many big signings

it's also the reason why arsenal haven't won a trophy for nearly six years, your squad hasn't been good enough

edit: what am i supposed to be reading on that link? lol

[blistanbul]

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why don't get is , wtf was a 'sir' doing at the train station?

surely mc united would've offered him a horse and carriage all the way to the red scum land?

[blistanbul]

bloody trophy slag

only undefeated season my son!

go read about it.

will make you more intelligent.

[Numeric]

i'll have to dust off the history books to read about that, we're talking seven years back, a lot's happened in football since then

and they say that liverpool fans live in the past

[blistanbul]

i'll have to dust off the history books to read about that, we're talking seven years back, a lot's happened in football since then

and they say that liverpool fans live in that past

arsenal have revolutionized the bloody game numberic, your team has supersized it.

know the difference.

[Numeric]

sorry dude but how have they revolutionised the game?

yes arsenal do have a good footballing ethic but they're not the first team to try to pass the ball into the back of the net, and they're not the best at it either

and all of uniteds success over the past twenty years stems from a team built on youth