Football Focus

[Annasfield]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Van Persie sending off. Awful decision.

Disgraceful

[citizenED]

4-3 Barca. It could be interesting if van Persie was still on.

[kpc]

As opposed to a second foolish act of petulance by an experienced player (no reason for him to get involved for the first booking). VP would have known he was offside - look at the half-assed 'shot'. These things tend to get punished more in the C: than the PL.

[Ladygooner]

I think RVP might have been a bit agrieved when Abidal had his hand round his throat!

[Annasfield]

Gutted for the Arsenal fans.

Liverpool are still the only English team to beat Barca in the Camp Nou. Seems like a lifetime ago! Oh well, Porto/Braga tomorrow.

[Mick Mac]

Arsenal - No attempts on target and no attempts off target tells the real story though.

[Ladygooner]

Oh well, we can concentrate on the Premiership now!

[matthew123]

Pretty sure VP knew it was offside by way he swiped ball. Not sure it made much difference as he'd been starved of possession. If Barcelona had not been so profligate in front of goal could have been another 4 goals. The 700+ passes versus 199 for Arsenal says it was one sided and it was.

[Sandperson]

It was a footballing lesson. Great stuff from Barca, it's hard to see past them.

[Mick Mac]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Gutted for the Arsenal fans.

>

> Liverpool are still the only English team to beat

> Barca in the Camp Nou. Seems like a lifetime ago!

> Oh well, Porto/Braga tomorrow.

And here is how to put them out of Europe. :)

 

[matthew123]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Gutted for the Arsenal fans.

>

> Liverpool are still the only English team to beat

> Barca in the Camp Nou. Seems like a lifetime ago!

> Oh well, Porto/Braga tomorrow.

..and also probably only English side to remain unbeaten (in 4 visits)

[Emerson Crane]

Better side won. RVP sending off farcical. One second between whistle being blown and RVP shooting. Not sure the tatic of sitting off and inviting the opposition on to you was the right way to go. Abidal had his hands round RVPs throat and didn't get so much as a yellow card, so the post the nonsense about the CMPL being more severly punished by refs than in the prem has proven not to be the case. Alves also managed a nasty little scissor tackle on Cesc proving that they can mix the beautiful with the beast. They will be the team to beat in this competition.

[mockney piers]

Agree reffing was inconsistent and favoured the home side, sending off was ridiculous and effectively decided the tie as did a dubious penalty. But Arsenal got it wrong on the night and didn't do enough to merit going through.

I understand if Arsenal fans feel aggrieved with the way things went, but as EC says, better team went through.

[Annette Curtain]

Apparently...

http://www.onlinetrophies.co.uk/photos/products_lg/L5064_52-146Elg.jpg we're still in with a chance on this one.

N(6)(td)

[Emerson Crane]

Could anyone, ANYONE, please take Bendtner off our hands. There must be a club out there thats believes he is as good as he thinks he is. He has the all the finesse of a panel beater!!

[Sandperson]

He seems to pop up and score important goals recently though. I've actually grown to have a lot more respect for him recently. After the pink boots/I'm the greatest guff last season I thought he'd settled down a bit. Still not an Arsenal favourite then?

[Emerson Crane]

Sandperson Wrote:

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> He seems to pop up and score important goals

> recently though. I've actually grown to have a lot

> more respect for him recently. After the pink

> boots/I'm the greatest guff last season I thought

> he'd settled down a bit. Still not an Arsenal

> favourite then?

Lets just say he's not flavour of the month.

[murphy]

RVP sending off was ridiculous, even if he knew he was offside he wasn't wasting time, the Fabregas back heel was criminal though. Only seen 5 min highlights but reports suggest Aresnal tried to play them at their own game. For Arsenal or any side surely you need to try something different to beat them like Mourinho did last year? Stat of the day is that since OPTTA started doing the Champions Leagues stats over 10 years ago Arsenal are the first side ever to have no shots in a match.

Great win for Palace last night with an incredible back heel into the bottom corner - would Messi be proud of it, no - the player misckicked, spun round to look for the ball and inadvertently it hit his heel and trickled into the corner.:)) - it's great when luck is with you for once. Bellamy was awful by the way.

Good luck to Spurs tonight, always seems to be a great atmosphere at WHL for evening matches.

[Jah Lush]

murphy Wrote:

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> Good luck to Spurs tonight, always seems to be a

> great atmosphere at WHL for evening matches.

Thanks Murphy. There IS an amazing atmosphere at WHL evening matches especially in European games. Unfortunately I couldn't get a ticket for tonight so probably watching in the pub with a few mates.

Very happy for you Palace fans. A great result. All my family on my parents side were/are Palace supporters. I bucked the trend but have a little soft spot for them for obvious reasons.

[camberwell70]

RIP RVP

 

[matthew123]

The problem with RVP is he'd almost certainly have shifted ball onto his left foot with the space he was in and drilled a more convincing shot at goal if he had any suspicion that he'd not been pulled up for offside. As it was he smashed the ball away in frustration. Not worthy of a yellow card but RVP should have not tested the Ref again after his earlier skirmish following the Wilshire injury.

[Mick Mac]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> All my family on my parents side were/are Palace

> supporters.

What other side is there?

[Mick Mac]

Well done Spurs.

Are you watching Mr Wenger ?

There is a 1 in the year.

[kpc]

Great result for Spurs.

[Patrick Smith]

Hey ! Guys is not about the Castle you must check on this

open the door and close it again before he runs away for

a second time.

No winners on this game thought !