Comments on: Round 16 Champions League football

By: Miguel Rosado

Miguel Rosado — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:36:00 +0000

Arsenal is a great club but sometimes they play the ball too much when they can actually score.

By: kimika

kimika — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:20:44 +0000

@Jan, if yesterday’s Arsenal is under-par, then… I don’t know how to describe the recent months…
Of course Arsenal could play a better game, if they had Fabregas with them… Hope he can play the away game…

@Caleb, yes, we have been saying “the future” thing for at least 3 years. But the problem is, the team has never been built up. If Flamini (or Gilberto or Diarra) and Hleb are with them, the team would have a “now”, not a “future”. They played really well last season, especially the first few months, though they got nothing at the end of season.

Anyway, watching rvp’s first touch is amazing…

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:36:29 +0000

@Caleb, I understand your point, but I did feel Arsenal played under-par…

By: ferenc

ferenc — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:54:20 +0000

exactly. but the very good news tonight is that liverpool won at santiago bernabeu. i’m really happy (as always when real are beaten). kuijt worked like hell,robben wasn’t too good. unfortunately babel had only 25 minutes.

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:35:58 +0000

@Ferenc: Alsace? Hmmmm, I’ll work with that. Although didn’t that area start a couple of wars?

By: ferenc

ferenc — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:23:54 +0000

@Finn: he’s from alsace

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:58:57 +0000

@Finnster – I can’t say I’ve ever had that mental image, haha!

@Jan – the problem with “the future is Arsenal’s” is that the future has been Arsenals for the last 3 seasons already… when will the future become the present?? That being said, I have to disagree with your match commentary that Arsenal couldn’t play their signature dominating game – I think they completely dominated that game! In the first half Roma barely touched the ball in the first 20 minutes! I think the problem is they lacked the drive/mentality to finish the tie off and once they scored their goal they didn’t push so hard. So we saw them sitting back in the second half and that let Roma actually get a chance to pass the ball more than twice in succession. Arsenal still created chances, but by the look of things they were quite happy with the 1-0 win at home (the players that is, not Wenger judging by his expressions on the bench)… I don’t know why though! With the number of chances they had, they should have put the whole tie beyond doubt already!

I completely agree that Arsenal could use a Huntelaar last night. They do have Eduardo however, and he is a born goal scorer. Hopefully he’ll be back for the second leg. Adebayour can be a good big centre forward player as well (he hasn’t shown it this season, but last season he did very well), which allows VP to play behind him and play his game.

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:14:36 +0000

If Wenger just wasn’t French I possibly could have liked him.

…Everytime I think of him I get this vision of him sitting at a Paris cafe with a beret and a scarf, eating a baguette and smoking a gauloise whilst touching the waitresses ass.

By: tiju

tiju — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:52:50 +0000

wenger is expert in analysis of the player,he never made wrong analysis on any player,always his analysis are correct and perfect.

By: tiju

tiju — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:50:49 +0000

benetiz-man of tactics(mostly less attracive tactics)almost same as mourihno,but very result oriented,
hiddink-fergie-wenger—-with longvison and attractive tactics and attractive play.
offcourse wenger coz he can forsee the talents
look at arsenal-
RVP,arshavin,edurado,walcot, are highly skilled ,i mean all of them penetrate any diffence.
with nasri,fabergas,rosicky,future is arsenal but i think some of them will leave the club within one year,coz arsenal crowded with talents,so therr will be no rooms for some great talents.
but they need another solcampbell in the back otherwise next season also they will face same problem