FCB - Gunners: Match of the year
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7 Mar 2011, 15:00
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http://www.goal.com/en/match/54836/barcelona-vs-arsenal/preview
Give your predictions!
Tbh this should've been the CL final already.
Give your predictions!
Tbh this should've been the CL final already.
If you saw the match against Bilbao (and Gijon to a lesser extent) it's pretty clear they are vulnerable on the counter. I do hope Arsenal lacks speed now, although the racemachine called Walcott was pretty useless as nobody from Arsenal could follow either ^^
Valdes
Alves - Busquets - Abidal - Maxwell
Xavi - Mascherano - Iniesta
Pedro - Messi - Villa
Correction, not zaragoza, he got rest, it was a week before
Yet just like Alves you see him giving lots of assists from the sides (Alves right, Adriano left). Especially in Valencia he was very attack-minded, resulting in giving the assist for the only goal.
Of course he needed quite a few attempts before he got it right, but if you ask me he's got the right mindset for such a position in the Barca game, and Valencia was a nice warmup for the big game of tomorrow.
Mascherano on the other hand played well against Zaragosa, but wasn't defining at any point. A bit like Maxwell, he does his thing but never excels in anything. And he's also a danger because the opponent often pressures those guys because they know they can get the ball opposed to futile attempts with Xavi & Iniesta ^^
So in short I'd go for Adriano, although imo Milito is the most likely.
You keep talking about Adriano & Milito ...
Milito will never be in the starting line up & Adriano might for Maxwell but I doubt it..
He played decent against Valencia but every other game he lacks skill and that's very obvious to notice..
Also I don't get your mark ' So is Alves '
You wanted to replace Mascherano with Adriano according to your previous statement which is the same like replacing Ashley Cole for Essien
On second thought your lineup seems pretty logical.
I just don't think Mascherano is gonna be starting. With the adriano for mascherano argument I meant it in the way that Busquets would move up to midfield where he normally plays.
But on Milito's case I agree, goal.com put that idea in my head :P
But I think the lower scores are the cause of
1. Messi not sharp enough in front of goal latest weeks
2. Ultra-defending teams
3. Rotating in positions (Bojan, Keita, Xavi , Iniesta, Afellay, Pedro)
4. Injured (Valdes, Xavi , Alves, Puyol)
Season is still long though, hope they pick it up again
That is a horrible back line! You're lucky Van Persie & Walcott aren't playing
says how much u ve seen these 4 playing together :D
Busquets lead Spain to glory , in the beginning I disliked him a lot as well , was too slow, too predictable, but just as Pedro he has grown incredibly and I consider him on of the best footballing DMC's in the world
(And Busquets did not lead spain to glory, that was the other Barca players :P)
We're not all playing Copenhagen !
Next week you get Man u , Chelsea, Real , Bayern so.. They're all harder
???
Until Arsenal win the league or win the Champions League they are just Arsenal, nothing to fear.
HSV vs Brähmen 4:0
result?
nürnberg > hsv
:PPPPPPPPPPP
seems that v.persie can play :P
"Robin van Persie (Knee)
Last Updated: 07 March
Arsène Wenger hopes Robin will be fit to face Blackburn when the international break ends in four weeks' time."
AHAHHA
no.
pinto
alves abidal milito maxwell
iniesta busquets adriano
pedro villa messi
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