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

[Chong Li]

https://archive.is/2LDlk

Read this article.

This article surely must be satire?

If it's not, Mr. Evans should quickly check into rehab...

 

[Ghostmaster]

Wow A club full of criminals and divers

 

[eduardmanas]

For those of you in London on Tuesday, there will be a supporter's meet-up in Covent Garden starting at 2.30pm.

For those of you interested, I leave you with two links, one from the FC Barcelona website talking about it:
http://penyes.fcbarcelona.com/detail/article/fc-barcelona-supporters-club-meeting-in-london

And the other, the official announcement from Penya Blaugrana London:
http://www.pblondon.org/gallery1/fans-and-penyes-meet-arsenal-match

Hope to see you all there!

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[Nucky]

Hope we get a positive result in London and that we score.. Even a draw would be good before 2nd leg.. I think we can even win in London.. Visca!!

 

[HomeSteak]

"They are not perfect, but not far off it."-Wenger

Arsenal fan here, scared shittles about the game tomorrow. I know a lot of the gunners are well up for it, and the player seem to be up for it to(or at least talk the talk). Think it will be 1-3 and a lot worse at the Nou Camp.

Anyway, just wondering what do you guys think is your biggest weakness?

 

[Flavia]

Arsenal fan here, scared shittles about the game tomorrow. I know a lot of the gunners are well up for it, and the player seem to be up for it to(or at least talk the talk). Think it will be 1-3 and a lot worse at the Nou Camp.

Anyway, just wondering what do you guys think is your biggest weakness?

Welcome

Well, Barça usually struggles in CL away games. Our last match there you guys won 2-1, and the game before it was 2-2. I think it'll be a hard game. The biggest weakness I'd say is the defense. Alves and Alba can doze off sometimes, and it's known we struggle against fast counters. And complacency, tiredness. After a treble season, it happens, as much as the players try to stay motivated.

 

[Trickykid]

Arsenal fan here, scared shittles about the game tomorrow. I know a lot of the gunners are well up for it, and the player seem to be up for it to(or at least talk the talk). Think it will be 1-3 and a lot worse at the Nou Camp.

Anyway, just wondering what do you guys think is your biggest weakness?

Complacency and fatigue. Our match program is absolutely brutal, and it's clearly taking it's toll on some of the players.
I don't think you need to be that intimidated by us. I think we're firm favorites, but at the Emirates, I'll be happy enough with a scoring draw.

 

[HomeSteak]

Yes, we create a lot but can't seem to score. At home we have a harder time to score then away.
Do you guys think you are weak at set pieces, I think that's what we will do, but croses in the box for Giroud(has not scored for like 8 games now, maybe more).

 

[MessiDinho10]

Arsenal fan here, scared shittles about the game tomorrow. I know a lot of the gunners are well up for it, and the player seem to be up for it to(or at least talk the talk). Think it will be 1-3 and a lot worse at the Nou Camp.

Anyway, just wondering what do you guys think is your biggest weakness?

I like Arsenal and they're one of the English teams I like the most, which is why I would normally want to see Barça with a small margin over two legs. However, that said, I hope Barça completely obliterate Arsenal tomorrow night. Those Arsenal ''fans'' who talk the talk, as you said, and constantly downplay achievements and qualities of players like Busquets and Iniesta have to be silenced.

I for one am not so sure about tomorrow. I think it will be a draw or an Arsenal win. We are usually terrible in CL away matches when it comes to scoring. The biggest weakness in the team I see right now is that the full backs seem to be out of form. Also, I'm afraid of set pieces. Even considering Lucho addressed that issue last year, as a Barça fan I still shit bricks when the other team has aerial threats combined with a corner or free kick near our box. Life-long trauma I suppose.

 

[serghei]

Personally, I do not think the team will look complacent. I will be shocked if that were to happen.

Our biggest weakness, for me at least, is that we can have games in which our finishing lets us down. I'm worried Arsenal might score a goal from 3-4 chances and that we will miss a lot of chances, because I can not believe Arsenal will create more opportunities than us on tuesday. Everytime we played against Arsenal we missed a lot of chances in England. Reall a lot. Like 4-5 huge ones, especially in that 2-2.

 

[Ghostmaster]

Arsenal fan here, scared shittles about the game tomorrow. I know a lot of the gunners are well up for it, and the player seem to be up for it to(or at least talk the talk). Think it will be 1-3 and a lot worse at the Nou Camp.

Anyway, just wondering what do you guys think is your biggest weakness?

Of course it's our defence, if you put a lot of pressure on them they tend to make childish mistakes, Alves and Alba had some horrible moments in recent games.

 

[Falcao]

If you can't comfortably dispose of this Arsenal team it will be a bit embarassing.

 

[Devils]

We have weaknesses, but I don't think they are weaknesses that Arsenal have the quality to expose.

 

[KingLeo10]

i know that our recent history at the emirates hasn't been too confidence inducing in terms of results, but at the same time, I think many of us will be pleasantly surprised tomorrow, lucho's record in big games has been virtually flawless since the turn of 2015.

 

[Interlop]

I'm sensing a pattern here, I remember managers & players used to talk trash on Barca before CL games: like Neuer saying he'll show Messi who is the boss or Kompany saying it's harder to play against Stoke City. And well, we all know how those games ended up, so Wenger saying that is harder to prepare for Hull is not doing himself any favors, to be honest with you.