The Arsenal Society VIII

Still you won, however the Nou Camp won't be a good trip, I'm sure you all remember last year :/ Will be a good second leg.

Not an Arsenal or a Barca fan but - Well done Arsenal, kind of lucky to be honest however. If Messi was taking his chances it could've easily been 3-1 by about the 60th minute.

However that Fabregas literally did nothing all game minus that one pass, Wilshere played much better than him. You again got taught how to pass a ball by Barca too, you were stringing together about 4 passes then giving it straight back to them, and then Barca would keep the ball for a ridiculous amount of time.

Still you won, however the Nou Camp won't be a good trip, I'm sure you all remember last year :/ Will be a good second leg.

The reason for that is probably that most teams do just park the bus against them.

You were unlucky that Van Persie has banged in nigh on every chance he's got for the last few months yet today he missed a lot before he got his goal.

Edit: Just realised Messi did the same

We should make a dvd

Parking the bus or not, an away record like that is not good enough for a team of their calibre. They have enough creativity there to unlock defences.

I think it's complacency. Last season just like today we took the gas of the pedal and it was to late to come back. The difference between playing away and at the Camp Nou is that the crowd makes sure you're not complacent.

I think it's complacency. Last season just like today we took the gas of the pedal and it was to late to come back. The difference between playing away and at the Camp Nou is that the crowd makes sure you're not complacent.

Woh. I don't think we did much wrong all game, Barca are such a great side, it's amazing how they can do to us what we do to other teams. I wasn't even that annoyed at HT more just baffled, with our squad there's little we can do to stop Barca creating opportunities. All we could was to keep battling and take our chances, which we failed to do 1st half but made up for 2nd and hope for some luck. We had our good spells, Wilshere and Koscielny were unbelievable, RVP,Cesc,Nasri can all play better but made telling contributions, only Song had a poor game.
But Barca were still the better side. I know we can but it's a massive ask to go to the Nou Camp and win this tie.

The only area where I think we could improve is with our high line, we have Song and Wilshere in front of the CBs with Walcott and Nasri tucking in leaving Barca space out wide, so why can't our defence drop off. It's asking for trouble with the pace the Barca front 3 possess, I think we're better off with them running at us and shooting. Our back 4 aren't coordinated enough to play a proper offside trap against this lot

Whatever happens it was a great win, the fans were brilliant and i'm proud, just a shame I wasn't there to witness it

Nahhh....

That would be doing a "tottenham"

Are you sure it's that? To me it looks like Barca press so much first half and really go for it, so if the game isn't finished off by then then you can get at them in the 2nd half. Both home legs, Barca have crumbled 2nd half, and even in the away leg Barca weren't as intense in the 2nd half.