Arsenal

Now don't get me wrong I love watching Arsenal play...more than anyone else in the Prem (other than Newcastle of course), but I'm fed up of some of there fans!

Should RVP have been sent off? Yes, he should have received a straight red card for his slap on Dani Alves. I agree the second yellow was never a yellow, but it wouldn't have been a 'second' yellow if he wasn't stupid in the first half!

There fans say that nothing went for them. However there was no penalty awarded in the first half for Diaby's foul on Messi and Koscielny should have been red carded. Is it just me that thinks that Arsenal fans are being pathetic and that any team that goes ninety minutes without a shot on or off target doesn't deserve to progress? It was a masterclass from Barca and only one team deserved to win tonight!

As a side note, how good were Messi, Iniesta and Xavi!

 

3 best players in the world! Arsenal were poor. Barca were immense.

 

Arsenal were poor, but so was the referee, and people will focus on that.

 

Arsenal got battered. Even if the referee favoured Arsenal on the night, they still would have been completely outclassed in performance by Barca.

 

Arsenal have a good team and play good football but they seem to have lost their way a little.

 

For all the trigger happy officialdom Arsenal were comprehensively outplayed, I posted on another thread that I thought that even though Barca were always going to be tough that Arsenal almost looked as if the mindset was defensive from the start and they typically play very narrow, they didn't adjust at all to the way Barca pressed all the time and so high up the pitch.

 

Without a doubt in my mind. Absolutely brilliant players. There should be a footballing hall of fame with just those three players in.

 

Out of interest, do any of you guys think Fabregas would get a game with Barca week in week out?

 

No...Who would you drop for him?

 

Busquets personally. I think theyre that damn good they can drop a holding midfielder and outscore everyone. Besides with that passing talent they'd never lose it.

 

That's my point, I wouldn't no way for Xavi or Iniesta and he can't do the job Busquests does, so WHEN he moves to Barca I think it could be the start of a downward slide in his career.

 

Arsenal were hopeless in the 1st half, but the own goal seemed to spark them to life. Then with their first proper chance VP was offside and got sent off, it could have been a very different game from that point but we'll never know.

 

Dropping Busquets would make em more defensively vunerable... I believe Xavi said he's the best one touch passer he's ever seen aswell. Busquets doesn't do anything pretty in a sense but he does a job very few could replicate..

 

One player that would get into the Barca team every week - The Bull. Don't tell them though

 

They probably already know..

 

Nah, he'd have to be mates with David Villa or something for them to even have a clue

 

Definitely, much better than Ardriano and i'd rather have him that Abidal.