Paul Merson said it best. It was a top team playing vs a Conference side last night.
Sendings offs etc donât mean a thing, it wasnât the same Taliban team who make a lot of EPL teams look poor. They couldnât string 3 passess together. This had nothing to do with the officials.
Nobody would have lived with Barca last night imo. Except for Royal madrid of course.
yes.
It was nothing to do with United. Watching as a neutral. I pointed out Koscielny should have went as well. You would want to get over it to be honest. :rolleyes:
Youâre so blinkered itâs hilarious
Arsenal were shit on their own puck out last night.
Sure theyâd no full forward for most of the second half
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What about Rooney the week before? That was blatant assaultâŚ
Let me rephrase, realistically could he or would he?
With regards to Arsenal, I got the impression Wenger hoped to get to the last 10 15 mins last night within touching distance, by hook or by crook. As it turns out, they made it there, through sheer luck and endeavour, and had Bendtner any sort of first touch they could have struck for the goal that could have won them the tie. It would have been robbery, it would have entailed great luck and good fortune, but they would have been in a position to get there (whether they could have held out for the last few mins would have been another thing). I see some on here say Arsenal should have gone into all out attack, but didnt they try do that last time out and fail miserably? They were on a hiding to nothing I felt when they lost Song, Walcott and had to carry RVP and Cesc into the game. Barcelona can handle their injuries, Arsenal couldnt handle theirs.
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Caul Pollins -esque.
I didnât think there was much difference between this tie and the one last year. I thought any myths were dispelled back then too. I donât believe Arsenal made a conscious decision to attack any more or less; they just couldnât get near the ball often enough and they were hounded back off it on the rare occasions they were in possession. I thought the pattern was the same over the two years.
Hopefully Zlatan can send the second English club crashing out of Europeâs elite competition tonight.
Even when they had they wouldnât let it into him.
Itâs not that they should have gone on the attack necessarily - itâs that certain commentators mentioned their improvement over last season (which didnât happen) and the praise for the âtwo best footballing teams in Europeâ is as laughable as ever.
I take your point about being ripped apart last season and Bandageâs ineloquent observation that they didnât set out to defend more but I think they were naive at best. Their commtiment to the âpassing gameâ merely involved them giving it away in their own half - they never adopted to a pressing game that Barcelona have been deploying since Rijkaardâs time. You donât have to defend for 90 minutes to beat Barcelona, you can try and outplay them, but you need to be clever about how you go about that. Playing so deep meant that they allowed Barca to press them deep in their own half the whole time. When they did get the ball forward to Nasri they had some (limited) joy because you need to play the ball beyond Barcaâs converging midfield to get space. That they continued to flick the ball from full back to deep-lying central midfielder all night was astonishingly naive really.
Spurs exposing themselves as one dimensional long ball merchants tonight. It would be an injustice to football if they make it into the last 8.
Strange sortof a game so far. I think at the end of the day mickee321 will be shown to have known the score.
Thiago Silva has been imperious so far, the best defender in the world. 
Real good football by Milan there. I think they may regret not scoring when well on top though. I sense that if Milan scored Spurs would have collectively shat themselves completely but Milan will need to take more risks as the game progresses and I feel Spurs may get them on the break with the pace they possess on the pitch (Lennon) and coming on (Defoe and Bale). But Spurs are very nervous here and itâs an extremely important half time team talk for the great Harry Redknapp.
Spurs would want to score a whole lot more than zero to be considered giving a side a hammering.
Spurs will be delighted to get to half time at 0-0. Milan had the best chances and may regret not getting the away goal in that period of dominance. If Spurs donât change something theyâre in big trouble.