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The Champions League Final, Paris
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My thoughts from another forum, thought maybe someone would find them interesting:
The game was ruined when we went down to 10 men. We were really going to have a go at Barca, you could tell from the first 15 mins. The ref. made a legal decision.. but it would have been just as fair to give Barca the goal, and yellow Lehmann.. and it would have led to a far better final, which is meant to be something the referee should look to do, whenever possible - keep the game inside the rules, but as level as possible.
I am proud of Arsenal's performance.. we still tried to take the game to them whenever we could with 10 men.. unfortunately it was useless pretty much.
I can take positives from this run we have had however - Arsene has got it right in Europe, and he knows what he needs to do. I am confident for next season, and in all honesty, I fear drawing the other English teams (Chelsea, Man Yoo) more than European teams in the competition. That's partly because against other European teams (Spanish, Italian sort of), both teams try to outplay their opponents, and play a better game to win.. whereas in the English game, teams adapt their game to who they are playing against - and with us, that tends to mean they play a "physcial" game. Whatever is said, Man U and Chelsea do do this - the only top team in England that tries to outplay their opponents in all cases are Liverpool. The key example of this is when you watch Henry in a game.. a lot of teams now put 2 or 3 players on him, and he is just kicked. Especially in the first half, this happened with Barca. Henry got no protection from the ref.
Anyway - that may have made sense, it may not have - but I am feeling OK, albeit gutted, as we could've won it, with 11 men.
The game was ruined when we went down to 10 men. We were really going to have a go at Barca, you could tell from the first 15 mins. The ref. made a legal decision.. but it would have been just as fair to give Barca the goal, and yellow Lehmann.. and it would have led to a far better final, which is meant to be something the referee should look to do, whenever possible - keep the game inside the rules, but as level as possible.
I am proud of Arsenal's performance.. we still tried to take the game to them whenever we could with 10 men.. unfortunately it was useless pretty much.
I can take positives from this run we have had however - Arsene has got it right in Europe, and he knows what he needs to do. I am confident for next season, and in all honesty, I fear drawing the other English teams (Chelsea, Man Yoo) more than European teams in the competition. That's partly because against other European teams (Spanish, Italian sort of), both teams try to outplay their opponents, and play a better game to win.. whereas in the English game, teams adapt their game to who they are playing against - and with us, that tends to mean they play a "physcial" game. Whatever is said, Man U and Chelsea do do this - the only top team in England that tries to outplay their opponents in all cases are Liverpool. The key example of this is when you watch Henry in a game.. a lot of teams now put 2 or 3 players on him, and he is just kicked. Especially in the first half, this happened with Barca. Henry got no protection from the ref.
Anyway - that may have made sense, it may not have - but I am feeling OK, albeit gutted, as we could've won it, with 11 men.
I think I've seen that before. It was some big team like Middlesborough against a championship team. The championship team's goalie was injured, so an outfield player went in goal for the last 10 mins. He was amazing though, and made loads of savesJaffa Cake said:I'll tell you what I love to see, and after the sending off last night there was a chance we might get to witness it an outfield player in goal.
We whooped Tranmere 6-1 the season before last, after both their keepers got injured in the first half. Happy days...
We've been on the receiving end of it too, so I've experienced the zany wackiness from both perspectives. It was a couple of years ago against Macclesfield in the cup, our keeper limped off and we'd used up all our subs, so defender Marc Joseph stepped between the sticks. We were lucky on three fronts firstly we'd already built up a good lead, secondly there were only a few minutes left on the clock, and thirdly we were playing Macclesfield.G99 said:I think I've seen that before. It was some big team like Middlesborough against a championship team. The championship team's goalie was injured, so an outfield player went in goal for the last 10 mins. He was amazing though, and made loads of saves
XIII said:
well said. as a Liverpool fan it's good to hear that from someone else...now, can you imagine Liverpool getting rid of our ***** strikers (Crouch and Morientes) and bringing in Henry to play alongside Robbie "God" Fowler? we'd be a serious force to be reckoned with that's for sure... oh if only.
i know this is Liverpool that i'm talking about, but you Arsenal fans may want to listen...
LFCNY (the New York Supporters Club of LFC) have just released a brand new Podcast!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=156770672
there's a section talking about Thierry Henry, go check it out
LFCNY (the New York Supporters Club of LFC) have just released a brand new Podcast!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=156770672
there's a section talking about Thierry Henry, go check it out