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UCL Final - Barcelona vs Arsenal (p+r)

M

mnj2x

Senior Squad
Eng4WorldCup said:
firstly, that was in november when real madrid were not ready for much.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=188597&cc=5739 .
^even at home you could not beat them with 10 men. what more can you say? that was a month after arsenal beat them, much closer to the time.

bottom line is that if your players have the arrogance like you do ill be a happy man tomorrow night.
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look whos talkin about arrogance... your team has the most arrogant and corky player in the premiership ...The god of highbury...lord henry
 
Y

Yossarian

Fan Favourite
I'm most nervous about Arsene's selection/decision making here, man. A cowardly and offensively weak approach to this game will cost us big. We've gotta take the initiative in the attack from the kick off. We can't afford to sit back and only react to their actions.


I really despise the 4-5-1. Its really limiting to the attack unless if you've got a Ronaldinho like playmaker in the middle of pitch. We're on neutral grounds (some might even sarcastically quip that we're the home team here, so why stuff the middle like we're making a visit to the Nou Camp? Henry is not the type of striker who's going to win you a lot of balls in the air, so making him do the battling all by himself in the front only hampers his capabilities and cleverness when the ball is at his feet.


-----------------------Henry-------------------RvP----------


--Reyes-------------------------------------------------Freddie

-----------------------------Hleb
-------------------------------------------Cesc




Cole---------------------Toure-----------Senderos--------------Eboue


------------------------------Don't **** up--------------------------


**** Shayne Corson. He does not belong on the bench let alone the starting lineup.
 
J

johan

Senior Squad
I'd like Arsenal to win..Henry is one of my fav. players. It would be nice if Ronaldinho is sent back to his dentist.
 
P

PaPaGeorGeo

Fan Favourite
Yossarian said:
I'm most nervous about Arsene's selection/decision making here, man. A cowardly and offensively weak approach to this game will cost us big. We've gotta take the initiative in the attack from the kick off. We can't afford to sit back and only react to their actions.


I really despise the 4-5-1. Its really limiting to the attack unless if you've got a Ronaldinho like playmaker in the middle of pitch. We're on neutral grounds (some might even sarcastically quip that we're the home team here, so why stuff the middle like we're making a visit to the Nou Camp? Henry is not the type of striker who's going to win you a lot of balls in the air, so making him do the battling all by himself in the front only hampers his capabilities and cleverness when the ball is at his feet.


-----------------------Henry-------------------RvP----------


--Reyes-------------------------------------------------Freddie

-----------------------------Hleb
-------------------------------------------Cesc




Cole---------------------Toure-----------Senderos--------------Eboue


------------------------------Don't **** up--------------------------


**** Shayne Corson. He does not belong on the bench let alone the starting lineup.
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i agree with the approach but we need Gilberto ont he pitch.

The reason why our defense has been succesful is because we have been defending as a team. Take away Gilberto and our defense will either be to vulnerable or Cesc will be forced to play a defensive role.

If we are to play a 4-4-2 it would be Reyes and Henry up front, Freddie on the Left, Cesc and Gilberto in the centre and then Helb on the right.

No we dont have Playmaker as such but Reyes, Freddie, Cesc and Helb are very quick to join the attack as well as Eboue charging down the right.

While defending we have a 4-5-1 as soon as we have possesion it quickly turns into a 4-3-3
 
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Dream Team

Starting XI
Did you know?


The Champions League final between Barca and Arsenal produces a number of interesting facts and figures, some of which we've collected together just a few hours before the long awaited climax to the European club season.


- The coaching staff of FC Barcelona won five European Cups in their playing days: Rijkaard has three, Eusebio and director of football Txiki Begiristain one each. However, among the current squad of players, only Deco has won the trophy before (with Porto).

- Arsène Wenger has only used two English players so far in this season's Champions League Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole. In the Gunners' squad, there are players from Germany, Spain, the Ivory Coast, Belarus, Congo, Brazil and Estonia.

- No fewer than eight Barca players - Edmilson, Ronaldinho, Deco, Giuly, Belletti, Eto'o, Márquez and Gio - have already played in the Stade de France, either with their national sides or with their former clubs.

- Giuly and Deco have already played a Champions League final (on opposite sides!) with Monaco and Porto respectively. No current Arsenal player has ever played in the Champions League final.

- Next September, Arsène Wenger will celebrate his tenth year as Arsenal manager. This is Rijkaard's third season in charge, during which time he has won two consecutive league titles.

- Arsenal has six French players, two of them born in Paris -Diaby and Henry. Barca's sole French player is Giuly, who was born in Lyon.

- This will be FC Barcelona's 16th European final and the 5th in the European Cup/Champions League. In addition, the club played in the 1992 Intercontinental Cup. For Arsenal, this will be their 5th European final and the 1st in the Champions League.

- Of the three European finals lost by Arsenal, two have been against teams from the Spanish league. In the 1979-80 season, Valencia beat Arsenal in the final of the Cup Winners Cup and Zaragoza beat the English side in the same competition in the Parc des Princes in Paris in the 1994-95 season, with a goal from former Barca player Nayim.

- FC Barcelona director of football, Txiki Begiristain, and Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger have both spent part of their careers in the Japanese league. Txiki played for Urawa Red Diamonds between 1997 and 1999 while Wenger managed the Nagoya Grampus Eight between 1994 and 1996.

- Larsson and Bergkamp, two illustrious names in European football in the last decade, will play their last games for Barca and Arsenal respectively. Neither of them has ever won the Champions League.

- Barça and Arsenal have only met twice before in competitive matches - in the 1999-2000 Champions League. They drew 1-1 in the Nou Camp but Barca won 2-4 in London. Four players who took part in those matches could figure in Wednesday's game - Gabri for Barca and Bergkamp, Ljungberg and Henry for Arsenal.

- Whatever happens in the final, both Barca and Arsenal have already qualified for next season's Champions League Barca as champions of La Liga and Arsenal because of their fourth-place finish in the Premier League.

- Seven players from the two teams have taken part in a World Cup final. Edmilson, Ronaldinho and Gilberto Silva played in the 2002 final, while Belletti and Lehman (for Germany) had to be content with a place on the subs bench.

- In the 1998 final, Henry and Pires were on the bench for France.

- In recent years, four players have moved from Arsenal to Barca - Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit, Gio and Sylvinho while Cesc moved in the opposite direction.

- In two of the four finals played by Barca, the players have not worn the traditional 'blaugrana' colours: in Seville (1986) the players wore sky blue and in London (1992), orange. However, in Paris, Barca will be counted as the home team and will wear the familiar strip.

- Ronaldinho (7 goals) and Eto'o (5) have scored almost as many goals in the competition this season as the entire Arsenal squad (14). - Cesc Fàbregas and Lionel Messi, born in 1987, played together in the Barca youth teams that also produced players such as Gerard Piqué (Manchester United) and Marc Pedraza (Espanyol).


->>http://www.fcbarcelona.com/
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-04:40

I'm so nervous..
 
G

gabs485

Reserve Team
4-0 Arsenal
Henry scores all of them...after this roonie will be depress and he will request a transfer to arsenal!
 
R

R.9

Senior Squad
Arsenal to win this one.I fell Henry will have his best game.

Arsenal 3-2 Barcelona

Henry 2x
Cesc

Eto'o
Ronaldinho
 
M

modena_10

Senior Squad
1-1 after full time.

2-2 after extra time.

3-2 on penalties.

i don't really care who wins, i just want an entertaining match, that lives up to the hype of the two best players in the world, in a CL final. :jap:
 
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Dream Team

Starting XI
PHP: 
-----------V.Valdés------------
Oleguer--Puyol--Márquez--Gio vB
-----------Edmilson------------
------vBommel----Deco----------
---Giuly----------Ronaldinho---
-------------Eto'o-------------

Van Bommel....

WTF, Frank !! :kader:
 
R

RUSI

El Merengue Argentino
Probably better for Argentina that he doesn't play so he doesn't risk re-aggrevating it but I really wanted to see Messi, oh well.
 
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