Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Barcelona v Arsenal..... things that need to be said


Yes, i know i haven't been up to date with all the games recently. sorry, been snowed under by work.
Anyway, with the game last night, although i was watching it live i'd decided not to blog it because of how ridiculously nervous I was.

So, lots of things are being said at the moment about how we shouldn't have won and arsenal didn't deserve it and you know..... the rest....
First of all I have to agree with most people out there. the refereeing was atrocious.

okay i'd typed a whole chunck of things and the stupid system signed me out, so i'm just going to quickly summerise everything.

Look, Barcelona played their best. Luck was not on Arsenal's side, they're stronger at home, just as Barcelona is with 90000 fans with them. The refree wasn't baised, he was just terrible, he missed out a ton of challenges that were right under his nose, gave away corners that were goal kicks, and just downright failed. So this is what i've been hearing a lot "well van persie shouldn't have been sent off, bentner should have scored, blah blah blah.... should have.... blah...."

I'm going to start with the negatives. If we focus on all the things that "should" have happend, then busquets shouldn't have scored an own goal, villa should have scored, dani alves should have taken a shot insted of passing to messi, there's a ton of things there that potentially could have changed the outcome of this game. I think there's always that part of the game that always comes with a bit of luck, and it was on barcelona's side last night.

Secondly I'd like to point out that van persie getting sent off was a disgrace to the justice of the game. It's everywhere on the internet, but I'd just like to say, from a Barcelona fan's perspective, it was unfair, it was illegit. whether it changed the outcome of who advanced to the next round i don't know. But it was just terrible.

Now here's what it is. Barcelona played their best last night, excellant passing, tatically strong, holding posession.... you know, the tiki taka. And there's the referee screwing up and giving cards away like there's no tomorrow, who should you really be annoyed at, the referee, or Barcelona?