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UCL Final - Barcelona vs Arsenal (p+r)
- Thread starter PaPaGeorGeo
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weren't you as an Arsenal fan disappointed by seeing no reaction from your team after the second goal?PaPaGeorGeo said:
I understand they were tired and a man down against Barça, but man on a CL Cup final you just have to give even what you don't have.
I mean there wasn't one single attack or shot by Arsenal until the end, it was like their objective was to avoid suffering more goals.
I'm not exactly criticizing Arsenal, I was just hoping for the players to try a little harder in order to get back to the match. Extra-time would have been great for a neutral you know
MaSsiVe said:weren't you as an Arsenal fan disappointed by seeing no reaction from your team after the second goal?
I understand they were tired and a man down against Barça, but man on a CL Cup final you just have to give even what you don't have.
I mean there wasn't one single attack or shot by Arsenal until the end, it was like their objective was to avoid suffering more goals.
I'm not exactly criticizing Arsenal, I was just hoping for the players to try a little harder in order to get back to the match. Extra-time would have been great for a neutral you know
Barca were playing keep ball. When down to ten men we're never gonna get the ball. Didn't help with Marquez nearly kicking Reyes in the face and then going down injured for 5 minutes.
yim87 said:yo wtf!
i hate arsenal but what you said was just utter bull**** right out from your ass.
they were a ******* man down lmao. you expect them to leave gaping holes behind? FFS.
sure barca had like twice the amount of possesion arsenal has, but could you even run half as fast as you would now if you lost one of your legs?
arsenal didn't get their 50 (or was it 49) match unbeaten run in the epl by sitting back on their asses btw.
and for the record i prefer supporting barca much more to arsenal.
look at the last 15 minutes or so, from barcas first goal. what do arsenal do? nothing. they are incapable of playing offense.
no, the didn't get those 49 games sitting on their asses. however, they do still play a game based on their defense and counter-attacking imo.
PaPaGeorGeo said:
a team who, as you say, rip teams on the counter-attack is a defensive team, right? How can it not be?
And I just wanna say that if Henry were to leave Arsenal before next season, the counter-attack play would be severely damaged. Then you would see how well your team would do if they actually had to play their way to a goal (like they had to do, and couldn't, during the last 15 minutes or so of the final).
Offcourse, you can't see the team you love like others do. You would most likely defend any critic they get, so I'm gonna quit wasting my time on this. Goodbye and enjoy the 2nd place...
TheBlueBalla
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Arsenal got to the finals by grabbing a lead in the first leg and parking the bus in the secon leg and dont try and deny it. The only attacking gestures in the second leg games you all had were individual attacks made by lone players. Otherwise, you had 10 men behind the ball and just let them come at you. To claim otherwise is just a denial of the truth, and that is NOT a knock on how they played on wedensday
Although I do find it delicious that every Arseanal fan save Dreath were laughing their balls off when Chelsea got dicked by Hauge far worse at Stamford Bridge and lost despite a valiant showing and now they lose under pretty much the same circumstances and expect sympathy
speaking of which
Although I do find it delicious that every Arseanal fan save Dreath were laughing their balls off when Chelsea got dicked by Hauge far worse at Stamford Bridge and lost despite a valiant showing and now they lose under pretty much the same circumstances and expect sympathy
speaking of which
So very true, and on top of that, the media bias once again was smackingly obvious the next day. "Valiant Arsenal fall at the last" was what the Guardian read. They even called Eboue's dive a "luckily won freekick". Yeah. I dont need to tell anyone it was all rose petals for the brilliance of Barca and scoffs for the cheating Chelsea the day after we lost to themRob said:
No surprise to how his username came about.
You can't attack if you haven’t got the ball. After the equaliser, Barca were all over them like a rash. Arsenal simply couldn't win possession and therefore build up any form of attack.
However, before they were reduced to ten men they were the most potent team going forward and built attacks from the back very effectively.
To say Arsenal's game is based on playing defensively is lubricous. Where have you been over the past decade? Defensive qualities have never been a strong point in their game since the George Graham era.
You can't attack if you haven’t got the ball. After the equaliser, Barca were all over them like a rash. Arsenal simply couldn't win possession and therefore build up any form of attack.
However, before they were reduced to ten men they were the most potent team going forward and built attacks from the back very effectively.
To say Arsenal's game is based on playing defensively is lubricous. Where have you been over the past decade? Defensive qualities have never been a strong point in their game since the George Graham era.
Now hang on a minute there. Arsenal have been quite boastful about the number of goals NOT conceeded during this seasons Champions League competition. Rightly so I might add. You dont keep so many clean sheets WITHOUT baseing your game around your defence. Arsenal's tactics when playing ANY attacking team, has been and is defend and counter. It works well for them so those tactics for Arsenal are beyond critisism in my opinion.
PaPaGeorGeo
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MaSsiVe said:weren't you as an Arsenal fan disappointed by seeing no reaction from your team after the second goal?
I understand they were tired and a man down against Barça, but man on a CL Cup final you just have to give even what you don't have.
I mean there wasn't one single attack or shot by Arsenal until the end, it was like their objective was to avoid suffering more goals.
I'm not exactly criticizing Arsenal, I was just hoping for the players to try a little harder in order to get back to the match. Extra-time would have been great for a neutral you know
No, our players played there hearts out against the best team in Europe with 10 men none of our supporters could ask for anymore of them, they did Arsenal and The English Premier League proud
PaPaGeorGeo
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Grunger said:
Its an insult to Wenger and his work at Arsenal to say that we play defensive football. Its not what Wengers Arsenal is about, he aims to win and win with flair.
TheBlueBalla said:So very true, and on top of that, the media bias once again was smackingly obvious the next day. "Valiant Arsenal fall at the last" was what the Guardian read. They even called Eboue's dive a "luckily won freekick". Yeah. I dont need to tell anyone it was all rose petals for the brilliance of Barca and scoffs for the cheating Chelsea the day after we lost to them
Ahhh shutup, you whining, soft twat. You guys are the strongest team in England by far, you can't be serious and honestly expect the ill-natured English sports media to massage your ass while you walk over a great majority of the league and make mockery out of the competition, do you? This is what you get for being so successful so quickly. Now I'll admit that the English media is taking a slightly more than normal derisive tone with your club than they did with our reign or that of Manu, but with such an arrogant manager like yours combined with Roman's bottomless pocket, could you honestly say in your heart of hearts that you expected any less?
You and everyone else knows this, with great levels of success comes an even more greater amount of envy, hate and prejudice...........deal with it.
PaPaGeorGeo said:
If we say that's Arsenal style, yes, because that's quite untrue. But in the CL, against better teams or in determined game situations, Arsenal played defensive football. It doesnt mean that's their style, just a option they used.
And a legitimate one, that got you pretty far, and almost won you the whole damn thing.