UEFA Champions League Quarter Final 1st leg - Arsenal vs FCB

[Magus]

Is anyone else excited Ibra can't play this game?

ditto
He can score again, obviously! He made some real progress but, he has a slow pace! Seeing the midget attack against Bilbao, the La Masia boys, really made me confident about the blaugrana future.
I'd really like to see a Pedro-Bojan-Messi attack.

[Mgz]

Is anyone else excited Ibra can't play this game?

ditto
He can score again, obviously! He made some real progress but, he has a slow pace! Seeing the midget attack against Bilbao, the La Masia boys, really made me confident about the blaugrana future.
I'd really like to see a Pedro-Bojan-Messi attack.

but this is Bilbao FFS lol...

[xenmate]

Is anyone else excited Ibra can't play this game?

ditto
He can score again, obviously! He made some real progress but, he has a slow pace! Seeing the midget attack against Bilbao, the La Masia boys, really made me confident about the blaugrana future.
I'd really like to see a Pedro-Bojan-Messi attack.

but this is Bilbao FFS lol...

The same Bilbao that could easily be playing Champions League football next year.

I really want to see how we do in a big game without Ibra. So far, we've played well in our big games but haven't really kicked ass as we did last year (2-6 against madrid, 6-1 against Atleti, 4-0 against Sevilla and Valencia, etc...), and I have a sneaky suspicion it's because we have Ibra up front and he buggers up our play in the last third by slowing everything down and not opening spaces for our second row.

That's why I'm excited.

[bobo]

I remember we played those 3 against Valencia this year and we didn't play particularly well until Henry came on..

[Magus]

I remember we played those 3 against Valencia this year and we didn't play particularly well until Henry came on..

It was Pedro-Bojan-Messi against Valencia, not Jeffren-Bojan-Messi.

[LeeRomeno]

Alex Song injured aswell, this is gonna look like reserve fight soon.
So they will have probably
Almunia
Sagna - Campbell - Vermaelen - Clichy backline
Denilson - Nasri - Diaby in midfield
Walcott - Bendtner - Rosicky in front.

our best should be
Valdes
Alves - Milito - Toure - Maxwell
Busquets - Xavi - Keita
Messi - Bojan - Pedro

[bobo]

I remember we played those 3 against Valencia this year and we didn't play particularly well until Henry came on..

It was Pedro-Bojan-Messi against Valencia, not Jeffren-Bojan-Messi.

Fair enough, but the point still stands.