UCL Quarters : Arsenal vs Juventus
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2 red cards for juventus in straight min.
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Match ended 2-0 by Gunners, i was hoping for another goals but alas.
but nonetheless, still happy for the result!
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FT
Arsenal 2 (Fabregas, Henry)
Juventus 0
Zebina and Camoranesi red-carded. -
2 fouls damned funny.. Vieira tries to kick Reyes' nuts.. and Camoronesi attempts to kick Reyes' sub, van Persie's nuts also
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good game for gunners... juve lucky to have buffon to save them from conceding more... fabregas is man of the match...
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Arsenal did well and Hleb look much better in the 2nd half and reyes did dive a few times.......and good win for Arsenal........2nd league would be a breeze to arsenal as Juventus Defensive players are suspended XD
Benfica did well to hold barcelona to a 0-0 draw -
camoranesi planned to get red liao... he is even happy to be off with salutes to fans...Originally posted by the Bear:2 fouls damned funny.. Vieira tries to kick Reyes' nuts.. and Camoronesi attempts to kick Reyes' sub, van Persie's nuts also -
Cannavaro is easily the man of the match for Juventus.
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hleb is still abit unstable with the ball... but he is efficient with his direct passes especially to fabregas to setup the second goal...Originally posted by ghimpheng:Arsenal did well and Hleb look much better in the 2nd half and reyes did dive a few times.......and good win for Arsenal........2nd league would be a breeze to arsenal as Juventus Defensive players are suspended XD
Benfica did well to hold barcelona to a 0-0 draw -
Cannavaro, totally valiant display to try and haul his team and keep them from conceding further.
Arsenal's man of the match is a tie bet. Fabregas and Henry. -
Wow!! u see how the youngs guns are playing.. young spain maverick fabs & always growing in pace eboue.. u kan imagine wat a team they will be to reckon wif in 1 or 2 season down.. fears are now floats in mi mind as im a devil fan.. when will Man U will ever play wif such fluency agn..
The fluency in the midfield are impossible to paced.. wif defend martial toure, they are rock solid.. henry in attack is smart & flexible, plays well in attack & play making..
Wat a team they made the seasoned veteran run for the money.. at this rate they are playin, u mite seeing me swinging an arsenal flag in a few seasons time.. -
Arsenal can easily claim to have the fastest team in Europe.
Every member of that team is simply electric, and can you imagine, they are still rusty and unstable here and there.. -
The line-up was..
--------Henry-----------
--------Hleb-----------
Reyes-Cesc-Gilberto-Pires
Flamini-Senderos-Toure-Eboue
----------Lehmann------------- -
i was telling my friends to watch Arsenal actually... i expected the young fellas like fabregas, hleb and the rest to mature somewhen starting middle of next season to 2 seasons down the line... and given the time they have played together by then, they'd be a scary team because of the fluency they have with each other...
they're kinda inconsistent this season in the EPL.. but in the UCL, they have shown the potential of what they can be...
one thing they have to learn how to deal with is the teams playing direct, smash-mouth football.. teams like Blackburn and Bolton come to mind.. otherwise, the team can outplay any other team as they have done with R Madrid and Juve..
watch this team.. they may be the team that will take apart the other big teams in the EPL in the years to come.. -
I'm thinking that their fluency and lightning pace should allow them to outrun and outpace even teams like Blackburn and Bolton.
Teams playing Arsenal might have some fear in them now, because this bunch of kids just dispatched Real Madrid, Juventus on their way out.. -
The only thing that was wrong about their starting 11.....no englishman.
Gone are the days of a solid backline run by nigel winterburn, tony adams, lee dixon and david seaman.
No wonder the PFA's chairman is complaining about a lack of opportunities for emerging talents simply because they lose out hands down to continental imports, even the youth players!
The England team is going to end up like scotland over the next 10 years. -
I guess we muist give credit to the arsenal defence as well man...Look at the back 4...Whats the combined age?? 85??
They managed to stifle the juve attacks...and nothing really went past the back 4..lehmann was very well protected and arsenal needed none of his heroics.
This back 4 really remind me of the dixon,winterburn,bould,adams combination still at its early stages..Give them time to grow and gain experience..Cant imagine what monsters they will turn out to be...eboue and toure are already playing like the nestas and the cannavaros...
It seem weird to me..Im support arsenal but tell me was it juve playing below standard or was it arsenal limitting juve to play poorly..When i was watching..i felt that this wasnt the normal juve that is leading the serie a...
1 more leg to go man...hopefully this young side can win it...
But quite a shame we will be looking at a depleted juve side during the 2nd leg...No nedved, no vieira, no zebina, no camoranesi...And did anyone caught capello's reaction to camo's sending off...He was fuming....lol -
juve never have any sort of luck against english teams..
english teams are jinx for them..
man utd done it to them before,so did liverpool last year and now even arsenal!..
gg vieira..i predict a similar outcome to the michael owen story..
somehow the omens are there for the gunners to win the ucl just like pool.. -
even though juventus is leading the serie A they are not that formidable in europe.
AC milan is still the the best overall. -
WOH ARSENAL WON SIA WTF
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it doesn't help when their englishmen are injured
someone once said that between 1 Rooney and about 3 Van Persies, he'd choose 3 Van Persies because it'll cost the club the same... i agree with him...
look at the cost of the english players! Rooney, Ferdinand, SWP, Owen.. apart from Rooney, they didn't live up to their price tags...Originally posted by BillyBong:The only thing that was wrong about their starting 11.....no englishman.
Gone are the days of a solid backline run by nigel winterburn, tony adams, lee dixon and david seaman.
No wonder the PFA's chairman is complaining about a lack of opportunities for emerging talents simply because they lose out hands down to continental imports, even the youth players!
The England team is going to end up like scotland over the next 10 years. -
Juve gonna have a hard time bk at their home soil. Viera got book (un)necessarily, Camoranesi and Zebina will be missing for their red card feista.
This team has a good mix of youths and old hands in each dept. As the competition draws closer to the final, experience counts more than ever. They have pace in all areas and it's likely Arsenal will go for the kill in counter attack. -
cannot say like tat, their english player continue to be injured ma so they wasnt featured... i believe they would want to field campbell and cole anytime... they do develop young english players also jz tat they were loan out or snapped up by other clubs or they(pennant.. etc) got themselves with problems with police which force wenger to ship then out... so not all to blame on the club...Originally posted by BillyBong:The only thing that was wrong about their starting 11.....no englishman.
Gone are the days of a solid backline run by nigel winterburn, tony adams, lee dixon and david seaman.
No wonder the PFA's chairman is complaining about a lack of opportunities for emerging talents simply because they lose out hands down to continental imports, even the youth players!
The England team is going to end up like scotland over the next 10 years. -
well wenger couldn't groom pennant properly...
and its well known that he doesn't really fancy english players,cuz they aren't technical enough for his team which requires alotta flair and not so much of the physical side of the game..
matthew upson is another one..
now i'm just waiting to see whether theo walcott will make it or join the long list of wasted english talents at highbury.. -
That was a clean tackle. No foul.Originally posted by Patrik:That should have been a foul.
Pires's legs were sticking out and up when he caught Patrick Vieria.
A definite foul.