Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Barcelona vs. Arsenal

1-4, Champions League, Nou Camp, 6/4 -10
Bendtner 18

The scoreline doesn't reflect the game at all according to me, I thought we played really well, in fact, I thought we played better this time than at the Emirates..
But the squad was perhaps a bit too thin, we didn't really have the players on the bench that could make the difference, and Walcott who started the game was quite invisible.

It started quite good for us, we had some chances and not so much ball, but when Diaby tackled a Barca player and Nasri picked up the ball, Walcott was basically free out on his flank, he recieved the pass and played it back towards Bendtner who collided with Valdes but managed to catch up with the ball and smash it in! So we actually took the lead through some great play and really well done to Bendtner!
But three minutes later Messi equalized (actually he scored all their goals), and even though we kept up the good play with pressure on Barca the half-time scoreline was 3-1 to Barca.

In the second half we kept up the good work, had some great chances but just couldn't get the ball in, Bendtner hit the post amongst other things.
And in the 88th minute Messi killed the game with his 4-1 strike..

I'm quite disappointed but won't let it get me down too much, I hardly expected us to beat Barca at Nou Camp, but we played really well and the most disappointing thing is that we lost 4-1 in the end.

Injury Update;
-Rosicky was replaced in the second half, but I don't know if it is due to the injury he picked up against Wolves.

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