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@ Akola,
U need to go and see the match again.
Dinho was too awesome and his passes and composure was top-notch.
Almunia tried his best cos he made important save before the break.
I think Henry was the major let down cos if he had taken at least one of em chances then the match wld have been forced to extra-time and maybe a penalty shoot-out.
All Rijkaard's substitutions were sublime. Iniesta added some drive and urgency in the midfield. Larsson was simply magical and Belleti had to scored his 1st goal in 2 years against an Arsenal that hasn't conceeded in 10 matches. What an irony?

@ Akola,
Arsenal's defence must have felt his impact.
Ronaldinho's presence is enough to make anyone go jittery. He show-boats just like Pele and Maradona has done in the past and i think he has become one of 'em legends now.
He kept the ball well and he made some good passes. He fed Etoo the through-pass that caused Lehmann's red-card and he created Etoo's 2nd chance that Almunia parried against his post.
The red-card really affected the general game-play because Arsenal was too defensive and it was difficult for Barca to penetraate the fortress until Larsson's ingenuity sank the Gunners.
Ronaldinho wasn't at his best by his own standards but he didn't disappoint me as a fan.

@ Akolawole,
One killer pass made Maradona a legend against Brazil in Italia 90.
Ronaldinho's presence was always a problem for the young gunners who became jittery as time wore on.
I have noticed ur biased comments against Ronaldinho ever since he eliminated Chelski outta the UCL.
Whether u like him or not he is better than all Chelski players wrapped up in one.
His overall contribution wasn't bad and he wld have played better if the match was played with 11 V 11.
The Ref took the hues and shine off the game by sending Lehmann out cos Arsenal had to be defensive for most parts of the game.
Ronaldinho is unarguably the best player on the planet so stop hating.

Henry has never clicked outside England. He is yet to justify his prowess at the big stage.
He was a disappointment at the last world cup. His Champions league form has been woeful except this season where he took his team to the final.
The last Euro 2004 was shambolic for him and he made no visible impact for France.
I won't be surprised if he fails to shine in Germany next month.

@ Akolawole,
Sometimes u can be too biased with ur comments.
Ronaldinho was too awesome today.
He supplied the killer pass that resulted in Lehmann's sending-off. Had the foolish Referee ruled it as a goal u wont be here saying Ronaldinho did nothing.
The Ref spoilt the match for both teams. Guily's goal should have stood and Eboue should have been carded with his theatrical dive that led to Campbell's goal.

My man of the match is Henrik Larsson. He played a major part in all the goals Barca scored tonight and props should be given to Rijkaard for the substitution. He deployed Larsson just the way he did against Chelski at the Bridge in February to win the match.

Barcelona is the best team in Europe and they deserved the win. No defence in the world can keep a clean sheet against the tremendous trio of Dinho,Etoo and Guily. Arsenal can always try next time and do more on their character and composure.

Arsenal played very well but it was always going to be difficult with the constant waves of attack that Barca was throwing at the defence.
Thierry Henry was the most disappointing player out there tonight. He has proven to be a local champion in England and a toothless dog in other competitions. His execution was shambolic and he was the major cause of the defeat tonight.

Who cares about being spectacular?
Barcelona has won the UEFA champions league and Arsenal should bury their heads in shame for their woeful display.
I told all y'all from the beginning that Arsenal lacks the character to push the game beyond the finish line.
We all saw how Man Utd dug in against Bayern Munich to score 2 goals in after the 90th minute in 1999 UCL finals.
Liverpool scored 3 goals against the mighty Milan team last year to force the game into penalty shoot-out.
Its the manner by which the gunners lost that gutted me the most. A team leading 1-0 should have held the fort at the back to curb the ever-rampaging Barca team.
Henry had a glorious chance to kill the game but he just scuffed it. Arsenal has just disgraced the English Premiership at the biggest stage and its so saaaaad.
The Norwegian Referee should be shot for making stupid calls throughout the match.
Guily's goal should have stood and Lehmann should have been yellow-carded.

Barca 4-1 Arsenal

Messi Belletti(o.g.)
Messi
Ronaldinho
Etoo

@ Jagenne,
I have got a video iPod already so send the ca$h instead if i win.
I could do with the £300/$400 in ma pocket to celebrate Wenger's woes.
Got it?

@Niterider,

Nairalander's most filthiest dude.
The greatest error ur mother made was to allow a cheap drunk to Bleep her to heavenly stupor.
Such was his corrosive semen that it was speed-swimming upstream ur momma's cunt and despite the grams of contraceptives she used, she could not help it but produce a human-MUTT like u.
U r a product of a cheap drunk Bleep.
Technically,if u marry a fool like ya u'll produce idiots.
What else is there in life for u? Why dontcha just kill urself 'stead of displaying ur imbecility on a thread like this.
U have been incarcerated in at least 15 years out of your 28 miserable years in life. U r nuthing but a complete loser and Menike won't save u this time. I'm gonna ride on ya till i cause u an extensive brain damage that will make u wanna slit ur momma's throat.
Its just tha beginning of ur misery on this thread.
Game On.

@ Nightider,
Do u sincerely believe in your heart of hearts that this young Arsenal team can conquer the Premiership next season?
Please have it mind that Pires and Henry might leave and this is going to set the team back for another 10 matches before they get their strides back.
It took Arsenal 3 months to get used to Vieira's exit. How many months do u think it will take to do without Henry?
Arsenal will be very lucky to make Top 6 should Thierry Henry leaves Arsenal after the world cup.
The major contenders of the league next season are Chelski, Man Utd and the Scousers.
Arsenal needs another full season to make the team gel before they can challenge for the title.

U even had the guts to say Chelsea plays boring football.
Tell me son, What are the Gunners playing using a 4-5-1 formation @ UCL?
Arsenal also plays boring tactics and Wenger is a bloody hypocrite.
He has accused Chelsea and Bolton of using boring tactics in the past and he's been using it now to hunt for European glory.

@ Vieira,
Don't mind Akola o.
He thinks studio flat is like a cage.

Go to Canary Wharf and see some posh studio flats.]
I don't think a studio flat is bad for a "18-yr-old" Mikel Obi.
How many of his contemporaries are still staying with their parents in Nigeria?

@ Akola,
Its not about what u think. Its all about Mikel's pocket-size.
A studio flat is £400 a week in Knightsbridge and 2 peopz can share a 2 bedroom flat which is £650 a week and thatz pea-nuts to any football player in England.
Non-Professionalz even live in this part of London so its no big deal at all.

West Hampstead is s'thing else. Don't even think about places like here cos this is where the bigger boys of England stay.
This is where u can only see houses with fences and stuffs but Nigerians are everywhere.
Senators,Ministers and Ex-Governors are the main occupants of this neighbourhood.
I bow for Naija Politicians.

@ Hucs,
You are one harsh dude.
Why rub it in?


Letz see if Arsene will break the mediocrity jinx on Wednesday.
Do u think he is capable?

@ niterider,
I have told u times without number ur level of comprehension is annoyingly low.
Diddy4dt was only asking a rhetorical question.
His question needs no answer as he had already answered the question himself.
U lack the basic priciples of comprehending facts and u r the dumbest Mo Fo on Nairaland.
Its obvious ur sanity has a direct relationship with the lunar calendar.
U r only stable when there's a full moon.

Ooooooooooops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at the kettle calling the pot black.
The Fam crew disvirgined your mother in a pool but i ensured evry'one used sheaths because your mum carries The Virus.
A drunk saw your mum still wreathin on the ground and he screwed your mum blue without condomz and that was how u came to the world.
Hey loser,U are a product of a cheap drunk Bleep.

Thatz the reason why you're mentally unstable and your psycho-evaluation is sub-zero.
Ma advice,Go to Nigeria and seek for a spiritual bath @ one of the beaches in Lagos.
If your symptoms still persist after 2 weeks, get your ass a .45 and aim it between your eyez and squeeeze the trigger.
I think you're better off dead than raping kids in the neighbourhood.

Who would associate himself with a mentally-deranged homo? No one mate!
U muthafcuking gay-maggot!
I ma make your mom regret her actions for letting a drunk sleep with her to have a bastard like u.


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@ Akola,
I feel u r just being sarcastic about the whole issue.
Did u say Wenger's technical ability?
Why r u doing this to the gunners?

No premiership team is good enough to be beat Barcelona at present time.
Don't be deceived.
Barca will win but i want the gunners to put up a fight and lose honourably like West Ham did @ the FA cup final.

Ya talk is cheap.
U happen to be the most shallow-minded gay on this thread.
Everyone does not live from hand to mouth like ur family does so cut the crap.
A poverty-stricken animal like u should be taught the lessons of luxury so listen hard and listen good.

Stay away from Tha Fam'.
If u wanna pick a prey,go far to some other threads and poke shots at 'em.
U need nordic track to get ur weight up. U r too weightless and feather-like to contest wiv me.
I can chop u down in seconds and i wont even break a sweat on ya greasy-gay ass.

@ Reyes,


Just the way it should be done.
The flowz r strong n tight,son.
U r just loyal to tha game.
Dont get complacent because of the fame.

Tha Fam, baby.
Reppin and locking #1 spot on Nairaland.

@ diddy4dt,

Why bother urself about niterider?
He is the one with the illegal status and a thick file of criminal records in the States. The gay is now trying to blame it on someone else.
Internet has made it easy for some scruffy sonofabitch to have the gall to spit sh.it on anyone.
U can imagine niterider,a Brooklyn shoe-shiner, having the audacity to post on Nairaland. Its a swirl,son.

Dont reply niterider and his dumass posts. He is mentally-ill. An animal caged with rage.
He's got no father figure so dont expect him to be coherent with speech and general co-ordination.
Niterider's psycho-evaluation is sub -zero according to his files at the Pennsylvania Penitertiary in the US.
His case is a lost cause.

Pls ignore him.

@Akola,
I told u most Gunners here r soccer-illiterates.
They dont even know the difference btw the Premiership and the OLD 1st Division.

I was reading anutha thread about the best strike partnership and one of em said Thierry Henry.
How can one player be a partnership?

The credibility of this forum is being smeared gradually and if care is not taken,it might get worse.

The Team,

Van Der Saar

Gary Neville

William Gallas

Kolo Toure

Rio Ferdinand

Claude Makelele

Steve Gerrard

Cristiano Ronaldo

Wayne Rooney

Thierry Henry

Van Nistelrooy


Bench:

Petr Cech

Emmanuel Eboue

Gabriel Heinze

Cesc Fabregas

Robin Van Persie

@ Hucarson,
Well analysed.
Managers should be rated based on improvements on their previous seasons.
I think Rafa,Redknapp,Jewell have all done so well.

Mourinho didn't really mprove although he didn't disappoint as well.

Martin Jol did a wonderful job at Spurs.
I cannot remember the last time Spurs went to Highbury without gettin beaten black n blue.
Jol has changed htings around a lot and made some reasonable buys.
Spurs is the team of the season. I admire players like Carrick,Mido and the new sensation,Lennon.

Wenger failed woefully if we are to rate him based on his previous seasons in the Premiership.
Losing 11 matches this season is very poor by Arsenal's own high standards.
2 seasons ago he went 49 matches unbeaten which was a very remarkable feat.
Arsenal fans will quickly say he was re-building but nearly all the managers in the Premiership had similar problems of rebuilding.

I dont understand what u meant by reformed.
McCarthy had been reformed,polished and finished as a player while at AJAX AFC.
Mourinho had no hand in his development. Stop over-hyping Jose cos u r a Chelsea fan.

@ Prisccy,
Why blame that goalie?
He was Boro's saviour as he made saves after saves.
Boro's defence was shambolic and the defenders were just mere spectators.
Any goalie will conceed goals if the defence leaks like Boro's defence did last night.

Argentina looks the favourite to me.
England will be close but the team lacks the guile to push things to the finish line.
Brazil are the best team on paper but sometimes the best team does not win. U can mention 12 good strikers but the team can only use 3 strikers(max) in a match.
It aint possible to have Ronaldo,Ronaldinho,Adriano,Robinho,Baptiste,Kaka,Ze Roberto and Juninho play at the same time in a match.
Brazil runs the risk of error in team selection.
This was the same problem the team had in Spain 82 and Mexico 86.

@ debosky,
U have said it all.
A top quality side like Chelsea should have a goal-poacher that will deliver 25-30 goals in a season.
The defence and the midfield is top-draw and should be a good foundation to build relentless attacks but Chelsea hasn't found the solution to their striking department.
Etoo scores 25-30 goals every season @ Barca. Why is it so difficult for a £24m Drogba to score at least 20 goals in the last 2 seasons even when Andy Johnson and Darren Bent have done so in clubs with less quality.

In ma mind's eye i think Didier Drogba is the most disappointing striker the Premiership has ever seen.
Obafemi Martins or even Rasheed Yekini would have done a better job.

Brazilian team in 1986 is the best team Brazil has taken to any world cup.
Careca is of a different class and Zico and Socrates were just too phenomenal but sometimes the best teams don't win.
Brazil got knocked out by France by a penalty shoot-out. Any team can lose to that as evident in Milan V Liverpool last season or Man Utd V Arsenal at the last FA cup final.

Did u say Jose developed McCarthy?
Get ur facts right. Bennie was already a finished product before Jose even knew him. Bennie was the highest goal scorer in CAN 1998. He played for AJAX in 1999 where he was impressive and helped the team win the dutch league,he scored important UEFA champions league goals in the same season and scored South Africa's 1st ever goal at the 1998 world cup.

Positive skills that lead to goals is very vital key and thats why i like Lampard  so much.
A player with no visible skills but his output is very lethal and a moment of his brilliance can win matches.
In the same vein,don't u think football will be boring without Dinho's dance against Chelsea last season. Okocha's mesmerizing flicks against Arsenal in 2002-03 or Denilson's multiple leg-overs at France 98?
Maybe u should see the Joga Bonito commercial of Ronaldinho. Its simply awesome.

@ Akola,
As much as i am an ardent Man Utd fan, i think Eriksson's decision was spot-on.
Luiz Ronaldo of Brazil went to USA 94 @ 18 years without kicking a ball but the experience moulded him to become the greatest striker the game has ever produced.
Lets hope Walcott will develop in the same manner. WALCOTT's age is another big factor here. He's always going to have a surprise package in him than a Darren Bent we already know what he is capable of.
I support Walcott's call-up just like i backed up Eguavoen's inclusion of Mikel Obi at the last CAN 2006.
Lets give these lil' boys a chance to express 'emselves.
I'm out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ Nightwanker,
Its a shame u keep posting the stats on English Premiership.
Pls post Henry's stats outside the Premiership.
I wanna see his stats for France, Champions League, FA cup and even Carling Cup.
I have isolated his scoring prowess in the Premiership due to his squad size.

Its even more appaling when u posted the 2004-05 season.
A season where Van Nistelrooy only made 16 premiership appearances due to injury and Henry made 35.
I know a fool like u will still expect Ruud to score more than Henry in that season.
P.S. Ruud still went on to snatch the Golden Boot of UEFA champions league in 2004/05 despite the fact that United got knocked out at the 2nd round K.O.

SWP is a good player and wld have done better in clubs like Arsenal,Liverpool or Man United.
Mourinho is not a genius when it comes to player development. He is now more concerned about using finished products.
Little wonder he is dying to have Michael Ballack and Tevez in his squad.

SWP was immense in the 2004-05 season for Man City and he scored important goals for club and country but Jose has clogged up the lil boy's wheels to play at the world cup.

@Akola
I beg to disagree with u when u stated English Players are not very intelligent especially coming from a Chelsea fan.
The most consistent players in Chelsea's ranks are English players(Terry,Joe Cole and Lampard)
English players r top notch players and it is well known they have the best crop of central defenders in the world today.

It also fazed me when u mention u don't like players that do flicks n thrills.
U must realise some players r born to make things happen. Ronaldinho,Okocha and Cristiano Ronaldo belong to this class.
C. Ronaldo is not yet a finished product. He is just 21 and he has another 5-7 years to add to his career. U can always expect him to get better.
Okocha was worse than Ronaldo in the mid-90s and Ronaldinho was a waste of space at PSG. Even Batty Ogbeche was prefered to Ronaldinho but can u say the same now about Dinho?
I love to see the flicks and tricks in football,what about u?

@Nightwanker,
U dont have to take the kizzack so personal.
These r facts and not myths.
Nobody will remember the 2nd best in years to come so cut Henry's awards out of this.
I can remember George Weah won the world footballer of the year in 1995 but i cannot remember who came 2nd in the same year.
Henry is a second best and will continue to be second best if he does not step up his game outside the British Channels.
Awards dont even add up sometimes to justify players ability.
Maradona never won any award as a footballer and he is the greatest footballer ever. So Bleep FIFA awards.
I am more concerned about a player's individual efforts on the pitch for both his club and country.
Henry has been prolific for club and he is not just there for country.

Talking about my sexuality--------------
U can send ur sister down to confirm ur theory.
I am at least better than u who practise Bestiality
Word on the street: U have been caught once raping ur neighbour's cat.
U need a spiritual bath!

Only a fool does not know the Spanish La Liga is better than The English Premiership.

The English Premiership only comes atop when it comes to organisation and stuffs because a lot of money is spent on the league but the quality of football is better in La Liga.

2 seasons ago,Arsenal went unbeaten in a full season of 38 games. This simply shows a weakness in the English league. It will never happen in La Liga because the difference between the bottom team and the top teams aint large like we have in the English league.

The difference between the top 4 teams in the England and the others is annoyingly humungous. The Premiership can never change. Arsenal, Chelsea, Man utd and Liverpool will continue to dominate the league till Kingdom come.

Oooooooooooh
What else is there 2 say?
The Hucz,Diddy4dt,Jagenne and Mr Reyes have won the battle.

@Reyes,
I love the line about sarah connor(The Terminator)
Thatz was a good punch-line.

Menike,Niterider and Lady of Rage-Mukina2?
Sorry about em disses.
We don't really care if the thread is locked up!
It will take a million Akons to get us locked-up.

We r the grand champz of Nairaland.

Niterider, Please do better than feeding on sanitary pads and tampons
U even get your kicks screwing cattles and female Baboonz.
Urs is a twisted mind. U need some soul-searching.