The first attempt was saved by Victor Valdes but the Dane composed himself to clip in the rebound. I might now actually start watching the match for more than eight seconds at a time." He missed a glorious chance to put Barcelona into the 2008 Champions League final at Old Trafford. That's better from Arsenal, in as much as it's something, anything. After waiting for Barcelona to pass it around for what seems like three halves of football, the ball finally goes out of play so Eboue can replace him. From the free kick, Pedro takes the ball down, just to the left of goal, ten yards out. The big galoot balloons the ball miles over the bar, then has the brass neck not to look sheepish simply because the offside flag was up and it wouldn't have counted anyway. His sidefoot towards the bottom-left corner looks like creeping in, but is fingertipped away brilliantly by Almunia. "Some people have suggested that Wenger can't really lose from this tie: if Arsenal lose then, 'well, it was against Barcelona'; if they win then, 'what justification for Arsene! Formations, lineups and stats for Arsenal vs Barcelona Champions League 2009/2010 "Wait until we get them back to Paris," he threatened after the match. 36:13 GOAL - Lionel Messi: Barcelona 2 - 1 Arsenal Leo Messi gets on the score sheet with a goal from inside the penalty area high into the middle of the goal. AFP/ADRIAN DENNIS. 85 min: WHAT A COMEBACK! "He made the impossible possible," said the Arsenal manager. Shouldn't there be an umlaut or other diacritic over a vowel?" Browse more videos. Post-Match Report FC Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal-Match Report. wonders Etienne Michelet, reading aloud from a copy of 101 Classic Arsenal Putdowns. Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal UEFA Champions League 6 April 2010 Arsenal surprised with an early goal but Lionel Messi led Barcelona back with four goals. Messi broke from the centre towards the left and when Almunia blocked the first effort the next went through the goalkeeper's legs. 90 min: There will be three more minutes of this. Mercredi, à 21 heures, l'affiche la plus attendue des huitièmes de finale de la Ligue des champions oppose, à l'Emirates Stadium, Arsenal. L'autre recrue de l'été est le Brésilien Adriano Correia en provenance de Séville. "He is Swedish and plays for Barcelona. As in the first match the manager resisted any temptation to name the veteran Sol Campbell in the line-up. Rumeli Orhan Kemanl - Para Bizde. Report. 32 min: Barcelona are passing it around. Arsenal FC vs FC Barcelona 2-2 Highlights (UCL Quarter-Final) 2009-10. But if the top players really must get themselves idiotically suspended for the next leg, then let's see some proper old-school haymaker throwing, please, no half measures. Erken Müzik. The club ended the Premier League campaign in third position, 11 points behind champions Chelsea. Arsenal may leave this one until half time, the option after all being Campbell v Messi. How on earth aren't Barcelona ahead? Résultat et résumé Arsenal - FC Barcelone, Ligue des champions, Aller Quarts de finale, Mercredi 31 Mars 2010 Hmm, Fabregas and Puyol aren't setting much in the way of captain's examples, are they? Now, can we just get on with it, please? How on earth is this still goalless? Posted 1:12 pm by Arsenalist & filed under Champions League. Eight minutes from half-time the left-back Eric Abidal overlapped and, when his cross was half-cleared, Pedro was able to recover and lay the ball back to Messi. Forget anything I ever said, like you were ever going to remember it anyway. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images. Thomas Vermaelen and Mikaël Silvestre had a horrible time of it. It took a whole 23 seconds of the second half to score. You've also forgotten to ask how long it'll take before said ITV mouthpiece starts banging on about Brazil 70-style football despite only witnessing a few simple passes being strung together. It's not the first time he's popped back to Blighty, though, is it. Messi was clear in the middle; an early low cross would have caused Arsenal some severe discomfort there. Messi picks the ball up while racing down the inside-right channel, drops a shoulder to drift inside, and forces Almunia into saving with his feet with a low, hard shot. Chances are that Arsenal will need to win in the Nou Camp - but Barcelona will have something to worry about now, especially as Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique will both miss the second leg. "If Arsenal are really thumped over the two-legs then they'll look like the European equivalent of West Brom in the Premier League last year. 87 min: Nope, Fabregas has limped back on. With no subs left, Arsenal will play the rest of the match with ten men. The manager has had cause to detect a rising competitiveness about his squad and that was reflected in the opener in the 19th minute. En Ligue des champions, le FC Barcelone termine à la première place de son groupe avec quatre victoires et deux nuls. The final word goes to Alex Richman: "Well, all Wolves have to do is follow Barcelona's long-ball blueprint at the weekend, eh? How this is still goalless I'll never know. The blaze of his play burnt away nearly everything else in this occasion. Bendtner, in the centre of the Barca half, passes down the inside-right channel towards Walcott, who strides past Maxwell, opens his body, and sidefoots powerfully goalwards. So Thierry Henry is back at Arsenal for the first time since leaving for Barcelona. All rights reserved. 73 min: Fabregas can't keep his shot down, though. ", Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers. Diaby gets the very top of his head to the ball, but can only divert it miles wide left. "He has six or seven years in front of him, touch wood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.". Playing next. 56 min: Bendtner chases after a Fabregas flick down the inside-right channel, but the ball skids off the turf and into the hands of Valdes. Browse more videos. Arsenal 1-2 Barcelona. 75 min: Eboue is booked for an artless scythe on Puyol. 62 min: Eboue skates down the middle of the park. The ball then pinballs around before being hacked clear by Pique. 13 min: This is preposterous. Song does brilliantly to clear. Apologies to Simon Frank, but that is possibly the worst shot ever taken in the history of professional football, and we all remember Jaap Stam's penalty at Euro 2000. The keeper doesn't, though, the ball going through his body and into the net. He missed a penalty on his Barcelona debut at Dundee United. The former Nou Camp youth player looks utterly distraught, not least because he got a big old piece of the ball. © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 10:54. Like! Now then. A lot. Arsenal-Barcelona live incidents, goals, cards, substitutions, lineups, statistics, formations Arsenal 2-1 Barcelona - Champions League 2010/2011 Live This can be explained politely by reference to a calf injury sustained against Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend but the centre-half was in good enough shape to be among the substitutes. 23 min: "This has nil-nil written all over it," writes Anthony O Connell. Sadly for Arsenal, there's nobody there, allowing Valdes to dip down and collect the ball. Barcelona-Arsenal UEFA Champions League 2009/10 . 54 min: Both teams nearly score with a header. Theo … The former bundles the latter over, for which the referee calls a foul. 6 min: This is extremely embarrassing for Arsenal at the moment. 18:54 3 min: Barcelona are on the front foot. Arsenal vs Barcelona Highlights 2-2 – Champions League. 82 min: Walcott and Maxwell challenge for a ball down the right. Publié le 06 avril 2010 à 22h44 - Mis à jour le 07 avril 2010 à 08h06. wonders Stephen Alexander. Luckily for Arsenal the pass forward towards Ibrahimovic is heavy and bounces out of play. "All of this talk about Fabregas would lead me to make the dangerous assumption that Arsenal are just a one-man team," writes Peter Anthony Corway. March 19, 2010. Is this tie turning dramatically? The introduction of Emmanuel Eboué for the latter could easily have been mistaken for a humanitarian gesture by Wenger. A generous award, and adding insult to injury, the big defender is sent packing - and will miss the next leg. Fair point, but I'm not sure I've got a fancy enough character set. Barcelona-Arsenal UEFA Champions League 2010/11 . ... Tue 6 Apr 2010 17.31 EDT. They could easily have been five up after a quarter of an hour. asks Matt the Hat, salvaging a little something from the wreckage of this MBM. En plus d'évoluer en Premier League , les Gunners participent à la Ligue des Champions . Three saves from Almunia, and blocks from Song and Vermaelen have just denied Messi (twice), Xavi, Ibrahimovic and Alves - in the space of one minute. "Luckily I was delayed by perusing Hadley Freeman's piece on Uma Thurman. 45:25 GOAL - Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Arsenal 0 - 1 Barcelona Zlatan Ibrahimovic grabs a goal from inside the penalty box to the top left corner of the goal. Le 10 janvier 2011, Lionel Messi remporte le FIFA Ballon d'Or 2010 devant Xavi et Andrés Iniesta; il remporte ainsi son deuxième trophée consécutivement. Barcelona's response three minutes later had its roots in a haphazard event that flowered into majesty. "A fiver on 57% for Barça and 14 minutes respectively." En plus d'évoluer en Premier League , les Gunners participent à la Ligue des Champions . Ersatz sub-Ronaldo teamsheet drama: Fabregas may yet not start! Arsenal vs Barcelona - March 31, 2010 - Live Streaming and TV Listings, Live Scores, News and Videos :: Live Soccer TV After that there was not so much a match to be recorded as a record to be maintained of virtuosity. CHRIST ALMIGHTY. Maybe they should have taken it in pill form rather than taking a dip in it, because it's more like watching Holland 1974; a lot of fancy passing and forgetting to put the ball in the net. 69 min: GOAL!!! He's here all week, ladies and gentlemen. Arsenal went out to Barcelona in 2010 and 2011 and that was after a draw and a win at Emirates Stadium - so their chances can be all but written off after this defeat. 2. A 2-1, évidemment, ce seront les tirs au but. Final del partido, Barcelona 4, Arsenal 1. The Gunners started off much better than the first leg and would […] Pre-Match. 45 min: For the second time in two minutes - the Fabregas booking got in the way earlier - Nasri scoots free(ish) down the left and nearly finds Bendtner in the centre, only for Puyol to slide the ball clear. 76 min: Messi skitters down the left and cuts into the box, but can't get his shot away. Chasing a long ball down the inside-right channel, Ibrahimovic outpaces Song and from the right-hand corner of the area, lifts the most delicious sidefooted effort over the advancing Almunia and into the empty net. 59 min: GOAL!!! That was the safest place for an Arsenal defender. Goaloot - aka The John Fashanu of Barca, according to Ian Copestake - is replaced by Thierry Henry. Arsenal vs Barcelona 2010 Second Half. 12 min: Just nothing whatsover from Arsenal at the moment. Barcelona 3 (5)-(3) 1 Arsenal. Poor man's pre 1998 World Cup final carry-on: After all that, Fabregas starts. 29 min: Ibrahimovic wins a towering header at the left-hand post from a deep Alves cross. Nasri cuts inside from the left and, on the edge of the area, unleashes a purler of a curler towards the bottom-right corner. A missed header, from six yards with 13 minutes to go, described as "feeble" by our very own Barry Glendenning. 2010/11, Huitièmes de finale, retour. This tie felt all over - but not now. En huitièmes de finale, il affronte Arsenal. Incidentally, the ball went out for a goal kick, Messi running it out of play on the right - but only after Clichy had clattered into him. 4. Arsenal 2-1 Barcelona 16 Feb 2015 February 16, 2011 produced arguably the greatest night in Emirates Stadium history - when Arsenal beat Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash. Barcelona flew out of the traps with an onslaught of early efforts at Manuel Almunia's goal. Some positive omens for the Gunners, then... 1. He's here all year. The truth was revealed yet again in the 88th minute. 2009/10, Quarts de ... 31/03/2010 En direct Barcelone souhaite maîtriser le retour d'Arsenal. Even here there was for a while a demonstration of the conviction that runs through an emerging side. 3. 8:13. Though on the other hand... (1) He put away the rebound at Tannadice, (2) took France to Euro 2008, (3) reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, and (4) won it the year after.
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