Lost to Barcelona, thats not bad now is it?

Lots of injuries, lack of experience, shaky defense, eccentric goal keeper... the list goes on. We still cant hide from the fact that they were far superior over both the legs. We didnt take our chances and they did. It was not as one sided as the first half of the first leg but Barcelona showed us why they are Barcelona!

It was a great start. We scored on the counter. Theo could have scored but decided to pass to bendtner and the dane scored at the second attempt. After that we have another chance at 20 minute mark when Diaby (who showed us he aint good enough as yet) made a poor choice of pass. He passed it to Bendtner instead of releasing Theo who was on side and could have scored. Only if...

They scored when Silvestre decided to feed a ball to Messi. Silvestre could not have done much, honestly he was wrong footed and too old to change his stance. Another reason why Wenger should have played Eastmond. It would have been Vermaelen at the left and things might have been different. They scored at regular intervals in the first half. Almunia could hardly do anything. It was just a class act by Messi.

Second half was not that eventful. Alves should have got a yellow card for his fouls. He does not make a strong tackle but keep pulling you off by hands or pushing or doing something cu*t style. Denilson got a yellow which he clearly did not deserve. No way! It was down to Messi's acting skills. It was not a foul at all.

Nasri, Rosicky and Walcott were so busy defending that they could hardly go forward and create something. We still had decent chances, especially for Rosicky and then Bendtner. Things would have been exciting if we had scored of those chances.

There are plenty of lessons to be learnt (learned) here, not only by the young players but Wenger. We are still 5 years away from 4-3-3. Its not just how we play on the ball but also off the ball. Pressing for the ball is not a once in while thing but a continuous off the ball responsibility. Vermaelen made a few mistakes in the game. Silvestre was too far away from TV5 most of the times which opened the central gap too easily.

Overall, everyone knew Barcelona would go through. But the young team played as well as they could without a proper leader. May be its time to get an experienced lad to talk to there guys and help them on the pitch.

Clichy, Sagna, Eboue, Denilson did well. Nasri, Eduardo, Bendtner and Rosicky were poor overall. Lets hope now that the team concentrates hard on the EPL and at least gets into top two.

Come on you Gooners, dont be goners, there is still something to fight for. Not for anything but at least the fans, the fanatics like me who want to fight not roll over and die.

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