ARSENAL- BARCELONA as it happened

                                          

                                         Arsenal- Barcelona as it happened…

Arsenal seems pretty confident even though 90,000 fans were booing them at the start.  After a lot of suspense and discussions about Van persie I was glad to see him in the starting lineup.  They know that it will be hard nutshell to break Barca’s defense and irritating high possession and defending dreadful attacking forwards Villa and Messi.     

             Wenger thought of defensive play for the first half and they managed it properly   even though they were pondering attacks throughout the game. Djourou played his part to his best.

But in the early minutes there was an injury which might have been a worse thing that their goalie was injured. Alumina entered to take the blows from Barca. But they have resisted Barca successfully for the first 45 minutes. An extra time for 4 min this was the bad time for arsenal fans.

                                                                                                                                                                       There comes the culprit, Fabre if he wanted to go to Barca go and have his g*@y partners but don’t destroy Arsenal's dream. His foolish back heel in front of D line which gave a moment of magic for Messi three minutes in to stoppage time.

Arsenal thought of comeback in the second half like their home game and started attacking moves better than first half.  And they got a bit lucky and found back of net by Sergio’s header. 

After that goal arsenal was trying to intensify the attack and the wonder youngster Wilshere making space for a goal there was a strong tackle by Inesta a bit of quarrel. And Abidal went for van persie’s neck and there is no card for him just a discussion.

But their advantage of away goal was shattered in few moments later by a joke red card by the referee.  Which was complete childish. Being a Manchester united fan I expected a good and exciting football game. Even though everyone predicted Barca will win but not like this…

         From there Barca used their advantage of 10 men and knifed Arsenal’s defense so many times but only found  goals by xavi and Messi’s penalty...   

At the END....

                                Arsenal is waiting to take another trophy draught blow from

              Manchester united……….