Arsenal Vs Barcelona (CL 1st leg)

The bench looks good though, lets hope Wenger uses them.

bench cant turn around 3-0 lol

Both teams at full strength.

Come aaawn aaaaarsenneeeell

srigooner wrote:

Every tackle.... Ozil.... legit.

Arsenal players and tackling

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Every tackle.... Ozil.... legit.

Flamini has thought him the art of Tackling, which could go horribly wrong.

Messi is getting a broken leg confirmed.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Messi is getting a broken leg confirmed.

Ozil is a yellow card away from missing the second leg so might as well make it count.

yellow card, red card its all the same thing for Ozil.

Giroud showing how not to go down crying like a possy.

Welbeck > Giroud?

Also, our finishing

Mertesacker - huge respect.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. What a performance by him. Had his role to play in ensuring we weren't killed much earlier.

Someone explain that Flamini - Coquelin switch to me.

Looks like Wenga just wants to find a way to make sure Barcelona have it a lot easier in the second leg.

Flamini


Man of the match. What a impact off the bench. Comes on for Coquelin and ensures Barca can have an easier time.

Özil BFF.

@Flamini:

Sanchez is one of the thickest player i have ever seen

Absolute liability.

Let's not overreact.

Sanchez was at least trying hard to get things going. 10 for effort.

Shame the entire attack has forgotten how to be clinical.

Btw, RG it is spelled F L A M I N I - that thick player who is a liability.

10 for effort when we nearly conceded twice because of him?

rather have 0 effort than that.

It's not the first time. He has been like that since last season.

Well, he's always been a defensive liability.

Again, Flamini conceded that penalty. Not sure what you're hating about.

When Alexis was scoring for fun, nobody was complaining about him being a turnover machine - and we know that's the risk which comes with his style of play. Why do so now?

srigooner wrote:Btw, RG it is spelled F L A M I N I - that thick player who is a liability.

Easy target to shit on. Because he literally has no fanbase.

People defend their darlings in Sanchez, Giroud, Coquelin and Ramsey. Reading 0 negative comments on them.

Giroud is arguably one of the worst first choice strikers we have ever had. But he will score 5 goals in a row against sunderland, West Brom, Aston villa etc and it will all be ok

We were doing well before the naivety kicked in then we started getting too excited and overcommitting players. Is it so hard for them to understand that 0-0 in the first leg of a champions league tie is a decent result. Every year they always come out saying we have learnt our lesson yet the same errors are committed. We play these games like it's a league game, feels like a waste of a evening all that energy spent for nothing.

Special mention to the defence who were very good especially Kos and Bellerin, Mertesacker ruined it for me with that pathetic clearance. When Sanchez is off form, he tries to do too much and take matters into his own hand. He is too much of a soloist which leads him to making poor decisions and turning possession over. Can't fault the effort tho

Not watching any more games if Flamini is on the pitch.

Why blame flamini? No point, he came on rusty and struggle but i dont care about that the game was over once we conceded the first goal. I’m sorry but ramsey again...he doesn’t know what to do when he has the ball, nothing is articulate everything is just reactionary, as a CM you should know what you are going to do with the ball before you get it. Yes I keep coming back to him and blaming him because is our CM an extremely crucial position.

On the first goal we saw ozil was blasting ramsey after the goal was scored. Guess why? We were in a good position in the final third; then ramsey got the ball and he basically slowed the ball down and just passed it out wide, didnt offer ANY penetration, because of him just passing it out wide it led to the ball coming back again, barcelona regained their shape, cleared and where on the counter attack.

i dont care that barca scored i really dont, but the least i want to see is us creating and showing a threat ourselves. With somebody like Ramsey in midfield you just cant do that.