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Undone by Brum and fustrated by Sunderland, can they now beat Barca?

Fabregas & Van Persie start.

Barca: Valdes Dani Alves, Busquets, Abidal, Adriano; Mascherano; Xavi, Iniesta; Pedro, David Villa, Messi.

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Djourou, Koscielny, Gibbs, Diaby, Wilshere, Rosicky, Fabregas, Nasri, Van Persie

Looking forward to this one.

FFS where are the stars, pfffft

Fixed for you, WW.

Predictions? Van Persie to come off after 15 mins for Bendtner? Koscielny to boot Szczesny in the face on a clearance even when Szczesny's called for it? Commentator to reference a "certain way of playing football" in the first 5 mins?

0-0. you heard it here first. not gonna be one of the boring 0-0's tho...

That lower case naming on the shirts is real ugly, hope they change it next year for when we're in the comp... Thats right, I said it!:-)

Fesan wrote:That lower case naming on the shirts is real ugly, hope they change it next year for when we're in the comp... Thats right, I said it!:-)

I'll let you into a secret we have it in the Europa.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wenger has an excuse already. I want arse to get knocked out so maybe they can concentrate on the league while the scum are playing 3 competitions.

Hawkes gone off for Alumnia, not sure if thats a good or a bad thing.

What channel is it on? And is it shaping up to be a belter? Need to know whether or not I should drive home to watch it. Not got Sky (sports)...

Why is Clichy playing so narrow? The ball to Alves is on every time Barca attack. I've seen Fabregas and Nasri both fill in for him in the first half hour.

uwes_skyblue_duvet wrote:What channel is it on? And is it shaping up to be a belter? Need to know whether or not I should drive home to watch it. Not got Sky (sports)...

Attack vs Defence.

Not been a thriller as yet.

ayrshireblue wrote:Why is Clichy playing so narrow? The ball to Alves is on every time Barca attack. I've seen Fabregas and Nasri both fill in for him in the first half hour.

Same is on the other flank.
But, Arsenal need to keep it tight in the middle or Xavi/Iniesta/Messi/Pedro/Villa WILL score through the middle. And Barcelona do not have any good headers which mean they have to try to put in low balls and none of them has been a major worry for Arse imo.

fight fight fight fight fight

Fabregas making sure he gets a few more quid signing on fee.

Goal!!!

Barca 1-0 Arsenal

Moonchesteri wrote:

ayrshireblue wrote:Why is Clichy playing so narrow? The ball to Alves is on every time Barca attack. I've seen Fabregas and Nasri both fill in for him in the first half hour.

Same is on the other flank.
But, Arsenal need to keep it tight in the middle or Xavi/Iniesta/Messi/Pedro/Villa WILL score through the middle. And Barcelona do not have any good headers which mean they have to try to put in low balls and none of them has been a major worry for Arse imo.

I realise they're trying to keep Barca narrow but Alves is too dangerous a player to give the amount of room that Clichy is giving him. Arsenal have offered nothing to this game so far. And they criticised us for our tactics at the Emirates. Hypocritical, frog eating pussies!

Moonchesteri wrote:0-0. you heard it here first. not gonna be one of the boring 0-0's tho...

WROOOOOOOOONG

This could be an interesting second half.

What a fucking stupid thing to do. Idiot.

i hate barcelona an there fans , there all too fuckin arrogant.

what a game. love it. messi's composure and touch for the goal were just sublime. come on arsenal though, just to make it interesting.