CL | 1/8: FC Barcelona - Arsenal 5-1 agg.

[Messi+Eto]

Highlight of the match: Neymar vs Bellerin

 

[vlad]

its all about that pace, ´bout that pace, no stopping!

 

[Vlom]

[MENTION=19742]vlad[/MENTION] Good one

 

[PhilS]

Barca is a two games a week team. They are well trained for this workload. The players are expert in pacing themselves. They don't look for excuses for bad performances like being too tired, which you hear so often from lessor teams. The veteran Barca players get quite psyched for playing big clubs in CL.

I like Arsenal, they play a good style, have some very nice players such as Cech, Kocielny, both fullbacks, Ozil and Sanchez. Others shine at times, but disappear a lot. When Sanchez is hot (not recently), they score enough.

But Barca presents the Gunners with problems they cannot be ready for. Barca's man-marking is quite a bit better than any in the PL, which will hurt Arsenal a lot when they have possession. But the worst problems for Arsenal are Barca's quickness and firepower up front, combined with the passing by every Barca player. The Barca passing is way, way superior to PL quality. There is just no way that Arsenal can get the 2 or more goal win at home that they will need to have any chance of advancing.

 

[jairzinho]

After looking at some of their forums, i really want us to hammer them. I never knew this kind of hate and disgust against Barca existed. You would expect it from Real fans, but Arsenal ??, Really ?? LOL

 

[vlad]

After looking at some of their forums, i really want us to hammer them. I never knew this kind of hate and disgust against Barca existed. You would expect it from Real fans, but Arsenal ??, Really ?? LOL

they hate everyone who has champions league trophy

 

[Egert]

Really pumped up for this match. Almost could have missed it, we have a national holiday in Estonia tomorrow and few mates wanted to go out but that was cancelled last minute

Let's play a good match and take a good lead to the Camp Nou. Visca el Barca!!!

 

[mazp]

After looking at some of their forums, i really want us to hammer them. I never knew this kind of hate and disgust against Barca existed. You would expect it from Real fans, but Arsenal ??, Really ?? LOL

everyone hates us. You know how many rival fans are rooting for Arsenal? It's been like that for a while now. I take that as a compliment. Everyone wants to see the best lose.

 

[barcanuck]

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[serghei]

 

[BarçaBarça]

MSN usually steps up in the big games, so I'm pretty comfortable we will score, altough they have played a lot lately and could be a little tired.
I really hope we will win, but a scoring draw could also do

 

[NotInHere]

Only difference this is a CL match not a half assed liga match where we have a comfortable lead.

Tonight the team will put much more intensity.

Hope you are right, we can't afford to go easy on these guys

 

[StarLord]

Score draw will do for me.

But if our intensity and concentration are at a high level, then we can certainly win this game.

 

[StarLord]

Line-ups should be out in half an hour, right?

 

[dakt]

Score draw will do for me.

But if our intensity and concentration are at a high level, then we can certainly win this game.

agreed