Arsenal Vs Barcelona (CL 1st leg)

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.

RealGunner wrote:

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

http://www.goallegacy.net/t38997p18-arsenal-vs-barcelona-cl-1st-leg#1570637

srigooner wrote:Welbeck > Giroud?

Also, our finishing

Think you should re-evaluate. Also, Coquelin? You sound more like you are defending Flamini. He has zero fan base BECAUSE HE IS SO SHIT THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PITCH.

Easy target? Yeah. When you come on and concede a penalty in less than a minute, you bloody well deserve it.

And you know who else I blame? Wenger. He had Elneny on the bench. Why remove Coquelin and bring on Flamini? What justification does anyone have for it? The only explanation is Wenger wanted the tie to be decided tonight. If he was chasing a goal, he would have brought on an attacking player, or Elneny who has been playing B2B. If he wanted to save it at 1-0, he would have removed Sanchez or Ramsey or whoever and put Flamini is a pivot WITH Coquelin. How does substituting one DM for another make any sense?

It makes sense if Coquelin picked up an injury. If that's the case, we might as well stop watching this team play for a few more weeks. Because businessmen trying to save the world do not necessarily make good defensive midfielders.

#EndRant

@MJ

Once again, STOP blaming him. What difference does 2-0 make? We were never going to score more than once at camp nou anyways. That's if we get lucky.

Game was lost when coquelin made that awful shitty backpass and when Giroud didn't even attempt to win the header and when Mertesacker thought its a good idea to follow neymar to neverland

REWB wrote: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 matriculate 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.

Let me just take a moment, as I do every week since November, to state how much we miss Cazorla.

RealGunner wrote:Once again, STOP blaming him. What difference does 2-0 make? We were never going to score more than once at camp nou anyways. That's if we get lucky.

Game was lost when coquelin made that awful shitty backpass and when Giroud didn't even attempt to win the header and when Mertesacker thought its a good idea to follow neymar to neverland

Fine. Have it your way.

srigooner wrote:

RealGunner wrote:

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

http://www.goallegacy.net/t38997p18-arsenal-vs-barcelona-cl-1st-leg#1570637

srigooner wrote:Welbeck > Giroud?

Also, our finishing

Think you should re-evaluate. Also, Coquelin? You sound more like you are defending Flamini. He has zero fan base BECAUSE HE IS SO SHIT THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PITCH.

Easy target? Yeah. When you come on and concede a penalty in less than a minute, you bloody well deserve it.

And you know who else I blame? Wenger. He had Elneny on the bench. Why remove Coquelin and bring on Flamini? What justification does anyone have for it? The only explanation is Wenger wanted the tie to be decided tonight. If he was chasing a goal, he would have brought on an attacking player, or Elneny who has been playing B2B. If he wanted to save it at 1-0, he would have removed Sanchez or Ramsey or whoever and put Flamini is a pivot WITH Coquelin. How does substituting one DM for another make any sense?

It makes sense if Coquelin picked up an injury. If that's the case, we might as well stop watching this team play for a few more weeks. Because businessmen trying to save the world do not necessarily make good defensive midfielders.

#EndRant

Has Flamini cost us before this season? Wenger has brought him on so many times before. He started matches when Coquelin was injured and didn't make any mistakes like this before. Wenger had every reason to bring him on. He has the experience. Elneny hasnt even adapted to PL yet. Why send him on against the best team in the world?

Taking coquelin off was a good decision. He was awful in the 2nd half. Wenger tried to save taht 1-0 defeat. Flamini was fresh legs.

srigooner wrote:

RealGunner wrote:Once again, STOP blaming him. What difference does 2-0 make? We were never going to score more than once at camp nou anyways. That's if we get lucky.

Game was lost when coquelin made that awful shitty backpass and when Giroud didn't even attempt to win the header and when Mertesacker thought its a good idea to follow neymar to neverland

Fine. Have it your way.

was to MJ

still positive about our title chase
losing at this stage of CL shouldn't impact our league run negatively as it didn't previously either

not a bad performance
could have done more offensively but overall game plan was alright ,lost concentration after while and their quality took over