to all arsenal fans. allow me to retort please. Do we play boring football? Yes we do. Do we have a negative manager? Yes we do. Are those relevant to the 2 matches we got coming up between both sides? Yes and no
I have read most of what you guys have been saying and you got some valid point about your team. But lets put things into perpective
Real madrid were tailor made for Arsenal as they play open attacking football without any form of cohesion as they displayed in that game
Yes, its Real madrid, but lets be honest, Real madrid are not in the best 10 teams in world football right now
They struggled to qualify from a group which included lyon,Olympiakos and Rosenborg with Lyon walking it.
When they played you guys, they made way too many mistakes , from team selection to underestimating you guys in the first leg. Ronaldo was quite disgraceful in both legs and the rest not much better
Yes Arsenal performed admirably but Real let you guys do that and if you are honest you'd admit that.
Hleb may have improved since the beginning where he seemed to want to do everything in the first half and be totally tired in the second, but he is far from world class and no way would i put him ahead of Mutu.
Eboue however seems to be a great find andFlamini has done admirably at left back cos i personally think as a midfielder , he is substandard
Reyes has been a disappointment as i knew him from Sevilla where i thought he was dynamite and really we ought to be talking about him in the same breath as Messi but he seems to have not recoverd fromwhat the Nevilles did to him at old trafford
Wenger is a great manager when it comes to finding unknown talents as fabregas is a gem but he has 1big failing and thats , he has no plan B if plan A is not working, well to be fair neither does capello.
Also if you do not come out to attack Arsenal, but close them down and no spaces for them to run into, they are nowhere as effective and wenger starts to bleat and moan
He is by far the worst sore loser that i know in football management and his reacord in European football is not great as he has reached 2 finals in his career and lost them both , first when he was at Monaco and they lost to Werder bremen in the finals of the cup wineers cup and when Arsenal lost to Galatasaray in final of Uefa on pens
I think his best in Cl is losing to Milan whilst at Monaco and that was to capello's Milan who went on to beat Barcelona in the final 4-0
We might bore the pants off you guys to a 2 legged victory but no way are we gonna make it as easy as real madrid did.
I have always thought for Arsenal to win Cl in the past, in the big games, Vieira, Henry, Pires, Ljunberg and Bergkamp had to play really big and not choke as they normally do in big matches , and all the time they have been found wanting but nowthey have youth maybe it might be different as they are too young to choke
But we are most like Chelsea underMourinho, and i dont have to tell you you guys have struggled against Chelsea since Mourinho went there.
Yes I too think Gabrielle marcotti talks a lot of crap when it comes to talking about Italian players and teams with his outrageous over praise