well as for me i'll go with arsenal dere passing is direct

Barcelona pass better. yesterday's starts says barca 66% arsenal 34%

^^^^ and Arsenal were d home team.

BinghiNya:

Barcelona pass better. yesterday's starts says barca 66% arsenal 34%

eeehn!!!

Barcelona altogether completed about 712 passes in which Xavi hernandez commandeered about 112 in it , Wilshere, fabregas and nasri's pass all joined together could not match his own . I'm worried about Messi at the moment , he seems to be fighting something that's not letting him play well , it showed vividly in the game against Blbao yesterday night , it was when they equalized that he picked form and our defense is so weak .We need Puyol so urgently now .

Barca are streets ahead of any Team in the world when it comes to passing. Their efficiency is open to question though. I think, going by the last game, that Arsenal's passing is more efficient.

Both team pass the ball well, but have very different approaches to the game.
Arsenal have the passing efficiency coupled with the English-style of direct long balls to the flank or down the middle, while Barca use the tiki-taka (short passes to the uninitiated) while moving the players and the ball around, changing positions rapidly, the Dutch-style total football.

Short passes will ultimately result in more possession, and it will help make the pitch smaller to the opposition. Barca has improved on the Holland approach with their intense pressing, ensuring that the opposition hardly has space to find a long pass. Of course long passes are far more difficult to get right, with 3 or 4 men crowding you out. Ultimately, without the ball, you are likely to lose the game.

Arsenal look like the 1998 France WC-winning team. Lots of long passes, highly technical build-up, and a lot of great pacey soccer. Add that approach to the pace at which the game is played these days, and you can grow into a very lethal team. I think in the next one or two years, Arsenal will grow into a fantastic side if they can keep their group together. Similar to the first Wenger generation.

Barca look like the Holland team of that tournament. If anybody remembers the Holland game against Mexico in the group stages of France '98 (first half), you'll know what I am saying. They literally blew Mexico away with two crack goals, but guess what, they went to sleep in the second half and Mexico was able to pull both goals back. To play like that, you need to play with a supernatural intensity, because you must surely lose concentration at some point. That's what killed Holland ultimately in that World Cup.