Gotta give it to the Arse army.
They played well tonight,and that is just being straight.
They forced Milan to play like a Sunday league side for the first 45 mins.
I'm thinking the tidal wave of emotion that carried them to a 3-nil lead was abruptly cut short at half time.Im thinking if they paced themselves better, they coulda gotten to extra time at least.
Of course Milan upped their game second half, but even they were generally poor.Robinho is as over-rated as they come.Milan don't look the biz heading down the stretch of the CL this season.
Great game.

Gallant gunners.
Out but not down, very impressive performance.

dayokanu:

The always falter to deceive

give credits where it's due.
arsenal were good tonight. . . .i thought they would score 7 with the way they harassed milan in the first half.

coogar:

give credits where it's due.
arsenal were good tonight. . . .i thought they would score 7 with the way they harassed milan in the first half.

Thats Milan for you brilliant one moment, W@nk the other.

I can reel out 3 games like that

Vs Deportivo 2004, Milan won first leg 4-1 lost return 4-0

VS PSV 2005 semi , Milan won first leg by 2-0, They were losing the return 2-0 till 87th min when Ambrosini pulled 1 back and PSV scored another . Milan qualified for finals on away goal rule

Vs Liverpool in Istanbul led 3-0 at half time, Lost the game at full time

^^^^^
LOL !!!!

dayokanu:

LWKMDDD

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: What. A. Player! Who needs Hazard?

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ritchboy:

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Calm down hellboy - he was good but that was never in doubt! I've always said pace the lad and don't put too much expectation on his shoulders.

Whisper it quietly - Arsenal had THREE English starters yesterday, and only TWO Frenchmen and TWO Africans.

Great game, heck the last 3 Arsenal games have been fantastic. I'm glad they gave their all but probably think this is a fair outcome. We just left too much to do after the shambles of Milan. People talk about RVP's chance, but Nocerino's miss was far worse.

I'm also glad we didn't take it into extra time and lose because we're struggling for bodies as it is - at least this season's CL has given us a game to remember as well. Truly one of the great nights at the Emirates.

If the players leave everything on the pitch in this way, the fans will be behind them 100% in each and every game - that's the determination and drive we need to see from now till the end of the season.

With the accolades pouring in, there's no doubt our boys did good. So proud of that team.

^^^
The players also need help from the bench. Truth be told, by the second half last night, the team was tired. Imagine if we had another Chamberlain waiting to come last night, I'm sure we would have scored at least one more. While the result was fair (considering what happened at SanSiro), football is not always fair and who says only deserving teams should win?  

Long and short of what I'm trying to say is, we need strength in terms of number and quality. Not Chamakh or Park coming on. For the first half performance, the players deserved more than they got from the bench last night (and yes, Ive considered we have injury worries at the moment)

proudly9ja:

^^^
The players also need help from the bench. Truth be told, by the second half last night, the team was tired. Imagine if we had another Chamberlain waiting to come last night, I'm sure we would have scored at least one more. While the result was fair (considering what happened at SanSiro), football is not always fair and who says only deserving teams should win?  

Long and short of what I'm trying to say is, we need strength in terms of number and quality. Not Chamakh or Park coming on. For the first half performance, the players deserved more than they got from the bench last night (and yes, Ive considered we have injury worries at the moment)

arsene wenger has no plan b.
i am sure fergie would have found one goal in 45 mins. . . . in the last 10 mins, the whole of milan would have been holding their collective breaths on the kind of incursion and attack the milan defence would have faced. arsenal got tired easily. . . .they expended a whole lot of energy in the first half and by the 60th minute, the tank was empty.

proudly9ja:

^^^
The players also need help from the bench. Truth be told, by the second half last night, the team was tired. Imagine if we had another Chamberlain waiting to come last night, I'm sure we would have scored at least one more. While the result was fair (considering what happened at SanSiro), football is not always fair and who says only deserving teams should win?  

Long and short of what I'm trying to say is, we need strength in terms of number and quality. Not Chamakh or Park coming on. For the first half performance, the players deserved more than they got from the bench last night (and yes, Ive considered we have injury worries at the moment)

On point!

But Park is a world beater, at least according to Ritchboy

TBH I don't blame Park or Chamakh - there was nothing for them to feed off from.

Even if you brought on Aguero and Chicharito with no midfielders to provide service, they'd be toothless as well.

What we needed was a midfielder who could put his foot on the ball and float in balls into the box that Chamakh could knock down for Park or RVP, or wingers who could fizz balls into the box, or through passes. Rozzi was shattered, Song's passing was off all night so no show.

Walcott and Ox were off by that time and Gervinho was meh all night except for one run before the Abbiati save.

These same lads played barely 3 days ago and were knackered - I don't blame them one bit.

debosky:

TBH I don't blame Park or Chamakh - there was nothing for them to feed off from.

Even if you brought on Aguero and Chicharito with no midfielders to provide service, they'd be toothless as well.

What we needed was a midfielder who could put his foot on the ball and float in balls into the box that Chamakh could knock down for Park or RVP, or wingers who could fizz balls into the box, or through passes. Rozzi was shattered, Song's passing was off all night so no show.

Walcott and Ox were off by that time and Gervinho was meh all night except for one run before the Abbiati save.

These same lads played barely 3 days ago and were knackered - I don't blame them one bit.

alex song?

coogar:

alex song?

Song couldn't make a 5 yard pass in the second half - his passing was atrocious.

debosky:


These same lads played barely 3 days ago and were knackered - I don't blame them one bit.

Lame ass excuse.

Arsenal played 12noon GMT on Saturday

Milan played played later and still had to travel

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dayokanu:

Lame Bottom excuse.

Arsenal played 12noon GMT on Saturday

Milan played played later and still had to travel

it can be argued arsenal played in a tension-soaked slugfest of a game on saturday compared to milan who played against palermo @ san siro.
the time of travel is the same if arsenal travelled by train to merseyside. . . .

debosky:



Calm down hellboy - he was good but that was never in doubt! I've always said pace the lad and don't put too much expectation on his shoulders.

Whisper it quietly - Arsenal had THREE English starters yesterday, and only TWO Frenchmen and TWO Africans.

Great game, heck the last 3 Arsenal games have been fantastic. I'm glad they gave their all but probably think this is a fair outcome. We just left too much to do after the shambles of Milan. People talk about RVP's chance, but Nocerino's miss was far worse.

I'm also glad we didn't take it into extra time and lose because we're struggling for bodies as it is - at least this season's CL has given us a game to remember as well. Truly one of the great nights at the Emirates.

If the players leave everything on the pitch in this way, the fans will be behind them 100% in each and every game - that's the determination and drive we need to see from now till the end of the season.

But we all know thats not going to happen

coogar:

it can be argued arsenal played in a tension-soaked slugfest of a game on saturday compared to milan who played against [b]palermo @ san siro.[/b]the time of travel is the same if arsenal travelled by train to merseyside. . . .

Actually Milan played away in Silicy.

Travelled to Milan and to London

So Arsenal cant be the ones complaining of fatique

@coogar,
Even the Arse army can't complain about fatigue.
dayokanu is right.Milan to Sicily is nearly a thousand km by road.Which is just under 4x Arsenal had to travel to Anfield.
The Anfield fixture might have been tougher but Milan were worse off for wear by the end of the weekend.
Not making a case for Milan though.
Arsenal simply petered out in the second half.

They were tired because they had to chase the game and put effort in to try and get it back 4 goals.
Milan did not have to work hard, just protect what they had

Vieira:

They were tired because they had to chase the game and put effort in to try and get it back 4 goals.
Milan did not have to work hard, just protect what they had

Spot on!

coogar:

alex song?

debosky:

Song couldn't make a 5 yard pass in the second half - his passing was atrocious.

You guys should free Song abeg. He came back from Africa on Friday morning, played all 90 mins on Saturday morning  and had to screen the back 4 all by himself in that game.

Body no be firewood. Kudos to the team.

Apparently, Podo had told Cologne they can't stop him from joining the best club in the world. The tabloids say an agreement has been reached by both clubs, but I find it unbelievable that Podo weekly is gonna be above £100k.

As an aside, who thinks we'll continue our fine scoring form when Ramshit returns?

dipo+:

Apparently, Podo had told Cologne they can't stop him from joining the best club in the world. The tabloids say an agreement has been reached by both clubs, but I find it unbelievable that Podo weekly is gonna be above £100k.

As an aside, who thinks we'll continue our fine scoring form when Ramshit returns?

According to Bild, it looks like a done deal. Won't get my hopes up just yet.

Can't really fault the performance of the boys in the return leg, all eleven of them stood up to be counted and man, did they give it their all. Whats the update on Ox and TW14?

Eeerr Mr Donkey, wats the lame excuse in being fatigued? Just incase you were listening to your own commentary on Oluyole F.M., we actually won 3-0. M-0-r-0-n!

dayokanu:

Actually Milan played away in Silicy.

Travelled to Milan and to London

So Arsenal cant be the ones complaining of fatique

Donkey can't you distinguish between TRAVEL fatigue and game fatigue? Playing Liverpool takes a lot more out of you than playing a team in Sicily.

Besides, no one is giving fatigue as an excuse - the effort put in by Arsenal was phenomenal in the game - they were bound to tire out. Even when they did tire out, Milan couldn't score even when granted a gift from Sczezny.

In spite of the fact that we didn't qualify, people should not take it for granted that it was AC Milan we played on Tuesday, not Bolton or Blackburn and we actually won 3 - 0. They had Ibra, Robinho et al in that team. I was one of those who doubted and the boys proved me wrong. Though we didn't qualify, Im proud of the team's performance.

When we beat Blackburn 7 -1, they said we played against the worst team in the EPL (Blackburn beat ManU btw)

Then we beat Spurs 5 - 2 and they said Harry Rednapp got his tactics wrong

Liverpool lost 1 - 2 to us at Anfield and they blamed it on Liverpool's poor finishing

Now we've beaten AC Milan 3 - 0, Italian Champions and current league leaders and they are blaming it on fatigue

Abeg make una give the players some credit.

Twitter is buzzing with news that we've signed Podolski. I'll wait till i see him in an Arsenal shirt