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You are blowing hot air. . . I could have done a lalaboi and had all my players on doubles and killed you easily. . . like i said, i'm looking past yall nuccas!

Keep wankin over a battle when at the minute, you are not even qualified to PARTICIPATE in the war

In other words, you are either a WOMAN or a CHILD. . . The smart money is on the former!

^^ My friend stop talking shiite!

"wildcard wildcard wildcard", we had the same number of players with double games, so STFU!

Unlike mugus like Lalaboi, i don't use a wildcard with the sole intent of beating my next opponent, i'm looking past you nuccas. . .

Look at my opponent in GW28 & the fixtures in GW29 and beyond and you'd see Eldee FC was the last thing on my mind when i played the wildcard

You won because VdV aggravated his injury, instead make you dey do thanksgiving, you dey there dey yarn megedefegede. . .

Hehehe, it's taking Lalaboi and Eldee the whole day to figure out Eldee won by one point. . . Not surprising considering the fact their combined IQ is equivalent to that of a comatose raccoon

But negro you should cover your face in shame, YOU USED A FREAKING WILDCARD!!! I got an 8point deduction and still trashed you.

Eldee has resorted to telling petty lies to boost his fame. . . crack on!

You were telling Lalaboiy, 'I'd have scored 1,000 points if I used my wildcard' GTFOH!!!

I believe that was Ibime, pay attention!

As for your other ramblings, keep beating your chest like a gorilla who won the lottery. . . Don Draper!

Hehehehe, Eldee must be over the moon. . . The boy even composed what seems to be a cross between a poem and the ramblings of a mad man

It's not everyday Crawley get to play at Old Trafford, let alone win!

Shut the eff up man . . . we both had Van der Vart.
You're going to lose to a better manager . . . it's not your fault, it's the comeback spirit.

Dunce. . . If VdV had played I'd have won cos ur auto sub copped more points than mine.

Because you manage win by one point you dey claim "better manager"?

Words of a prophet: "The table doesn't lie"

I hope Van der Vaart gets run over by an 18-wheeler. . .

The 13 points wey RVP cop against Wolves never do una? THIEFSSS!

^^ What happened when Bebe came on for Hargo against Wolves earlier this season?

Despite playing with the "A team", he produced the worst performance i've ever seen from a professional footballer

The formation are badt. . .

The players is badt. . .

The manager are badt. . .

The peetch sef are badt. . .

Is DD really a proven striker?

I reckon he's a one season wonder

Take that! heart

^^ Sharon wants us to believe Barca were weaker against Arsenal than United because of the absence of one single defender

If i remember correctly, Barca disgraced Man Utd in the 2009 final with a make-shift defence that were without Abidal + Alves, with Yaya Toure @ CB.

The man is a nutter

^^ Ibime's "suicide football" rant should be framed and shown to his grand children

eldee:
PRAISE THA LORT!!! PRAISE JIXOS!!! Dayokanu is alive!!!

Andre Uweh:
Usmanov is not Russian but Uzbekistani. He is worth £300 million. He is far from being a billionaire.

You must be talking about a different Usmanov. . .

hehehe, classic Dr Kit!

I hear Usmanov(Arsenal shareholder) has toppled Roman on the Russian rich-list. . .

^^ A 9/10 goal in a big game would always get more press than a 10/10 goal against Charlton. Not taking anything away from the ridiculous "coverage"

Many people would tell you Maradona's goal against England is the best goal ever scored. . . We all know it's not(at least i do), maybe the best goal in a game of that magnitude, maybe!

rijkaard's barca won a champs league without messi.

Meaning? I believe Messi was battling Giuly for the RWF position but got injured before the final.

I don't understand how it supports your(abi DK's) assertion that Barca were a better team then than now, which i find preposterous.

pressed who? it was barcelona that were pressing arsenal which shows the huge possession share. arsenal hardly had a kick in the first half except for the occasional bursts forward.

No point repeating myself over and over, anyone who watched the game should know both teams played a high pressing game. Barca had more possession because they keep the ball better than anyone else, not because Arsenal didn't press.

he made a counter-claim. the onus was on him to prove me wrong.

I said Song pressed high up the field(in Barca's half at times), you asked me to prove it with a heat-map. Don't you have access to the heat-map? Why should i bother proving the obvious? If i say Villa opened the scoring, you'd ask me to prove it as well?

alluded what? speak in clear n concise terms.

Alluded to Barca shoring up defensively to protect their lead. It's crystal clear.

that is not the question i asked you. if puyol was available last night, would abidal have played as a centre-back? it's a simple question. . . .this is not about milito or thuram. considering the fact that puyol/pique are barca's first choice and also spain's first choice centre-backs. the absence of puyol alone means barca were weaker as a team than people thought they would be. puyol is a better central defender than abidal - it does not matter if abidal had played in that position 50,000 times before.

Of course Puyol's absence made them weaker, obviously. Just as the absence of Sagna, Vermaelen etc also made Arsenal weaker.

I was calling you out on suggesting Barca had to replace Puyol with "a left-back" when not only did they have a fully fit CB(Milito) on the bench, the so-called left back is also very adept at playing center back as well.

^^^ You sound like the cockerel that crowed before dawn

Why not wait till the tie is over before running ya mouth?

If una play the same style for Nou Camp, una go chop 4.

Hehehe, face-saver-extraordinaire didn't mention anything about Camp Nou when he categorically stated Arsenal cannot beat Barca home or away.

First na we don jabo after draw, then na dem go kill us for our haus, now na make we wait until Camp Fura de Nunu. . . .ya'll been hating for a minute.

i got ma G.A.T in the Pathfinder, cos these haters got PhDs(player hating degrees), they some MAJOR haters and some math MINORs, Tiger Woods dont make me grab iron

Pep's Barca is obviously better than Rijkaard's. . . Anyone who thinks otherwise should be taken round the back and shot.

nope. . . .parking the bus simply means putting men behind the ball without really bothering about pressing them. arsenal did that comfortably last night. you allowed barcelona to keep doing tippy-tappy and you were looking to break on a counter.

Hehehe, you are a clown! Arsenal were pressing Barca in their own half FFS. You must have watched the game in a pub from an acute angle!

You don't "allow" Barca to play tippy-tappy, that's what they do by default. It's inevitable.

a graphical evidence or his heat-map would clear this up. i hate conjectures.

What's stopping you from providing yours?

pay attention to details my friend. they still retained their shape. iniesta became an auxiliary forward and keita tucked in the middle between xavi and busquets. iniesta joined messi and pedrito cos guardiola had seen enough. the away goal was sufficient enough for him. he is a conservative manager who likes to play within himself away from home in europe. why kill myself to beat arsenal at the emirates when they will still come to camp nou(slaughterhouse)? he has not won a game away from home in the k.o. stages and you will be shocked at the quality of teams that have drawn/beaten barca away from home under guardiola. he relies so much on his home form.

You have just alluded to what i said!

arsenal surrendered position because they wanted to. of course, the onus was on arsenal to score cos arsenal were the home team but barca still bossed the game until the second half when they tired or guardiola simply gave up.

White elephant lie!

in other words, if puyol was available, abidal would still have played as a centre-back?
would abidal have played as a center-back with a fit puyol?

I never said so, use your head properly. . .

They had Milito on the bench and Pep still preferred Abidal. That should give you a clue, hopefully!

The same Kos who wilted under physical pressure at Newcastle?

Tell us something new.

Djorou? Dont make me laugh.

BTW, I never made prediction about Kos cos Id never seen him till he came to England. But now Ive seen him, Ima tell you he is not a top 4 Premiership defender.

Sharrrap! FACE SAVER!!!

You also told us Arsenal couldn't beat Barca with Arsene's style, "only teams that can defend like Chelsea can beat Barca" or some rubbish like that.

In fact when Villa scored you rushed here to tell us Arsenal are playing "suicide football".

Oya come and save your face again!

parking the bus is in 2 parts. defending deep or holding a high line.

Syntax error. . . Parking the bus is sitting deep and inviting the opposition to your final third(half-pressing). I don't know what game you watched but that is not what Arsenal did(full-pressing).

Did you see how high up the field Song(who's supposed to be a holding midfielder) was pressing?

If at all any team tried to park the bus yesterday it's Barca(when they took off Villa for Keita).

there was a sequence of about 160 touches from the barca side in the first half with arsenal not even bothering to press for the ball because you were very happy where barcelona had the ball. 34% possession for a team like arsenal at the emirates? if you didn't park the bus, what then did you park?

There is a difference between surrendering possession because you want to(i.e. Inter vs Bayern) and surrendering possession because the opposition are so good they won't let you have it.

barca without puyol is the same as man utd without vidic/rio. abidal(left back) had to play as a centre back - that should tell you how weak barca were last night.

Cougar is clutching at straws. . . Abidal has played CB extensively in his career and is very adept at it so i dont know what you're on about.

There is no difference between Abidal playing CB and, say Iniesta or Nasri playing wide left as opposed to through the middle.

You dont have a case!

berbatov got a first touch(his thigh) from nani's cross against liverpool before attempting his overhead kick. rooney was completely mid-air when he met nani's cross against man city. rooney didn't cushion the cross with a first touch. . . . .he just met it directly with his in-step and powered it home.

Rooney didn't need a first touch because the deflection on the cross set the ball up perfectly for him to strike it.

The fact that Berbatov had to control the ball(which he did brilliantly) makes his goal even better.

Let's also not forget Berba caught the ball sweetly(not with his shin!) with his back to goal and it went in off the underside of the bar.

Berba's goal shytes on Rooney's in all possible ways.

you parked the bus albeit holding a high line and looking to break on the counter. a match where barca had 66% possession indicated you gave up possession to put 9 men behind the ball. it wasn't as obvious as jose's inter but you still parked a van(if not a bus).

How can a team holding a high line be said to have parked the bus?

Another smash hit from Cougar!

I never really understood the hype about that goal. . . The boy didn't even catch the ball cleanly(it came off his shin!)

Sure it's still a great strike but not worth 1/4 the press it's got. Zaki scored a much better goal and we didn't hear this noise.

Even Berbatov's goal against 'Pool was better.

@kay

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^^ Ibime is just trying to save face as usual after his prophecies get blown to smithereens. . .

First he told us Djourou is a completely useless defender. . . After Djourou's magnificent performances this season Ibime had to resort to questioning his sexuality.

Now that Koscielny is proving to be an excellent signing Ibime is yarning nonsense again.

Anyone who thinks Koscielny gets dominated aerially obviously has no clue!

Maen of the match: Koscielny & Wilshere!

Koscielny didnt put a foot wrong all game, was excellent one-v-one (as we've come to expect).

Wilshere was in the zone. . . no be beans to outshine Cesc, Xavi and Iniesta!

Song was a bit reckless at times but he played well especially in the 2nd half.

RVP missed one or two good chances but his touch and link-up play was brilliant as usual.

Walcott always looked a threat.

Nasri did brilliantly to pick out Arshavin for the second goal, most players would have tried to pick out RVP or just hopefully fire it across the face of the goal.

Half time, Barca are still favorites, but. . .

Cesc has been poor.

Barcelona are yet to win a Champions League away match in the knock-out stages under Guardiola.

HMM!