Something That We Have Been Dreams Of For So So Long!!!
Posted on February 20th, 2011 | by nebular in Andrey Arshavin,Arsenal,Arsenal News,Arsene Wenger,Athletic Bilbao,Barcelona,Champions League,David Villa,La Liga,Real Madrid,Robin Van PersieThe day Arsenal beat Barcelona, there is a sign of relief in the La Liga where the closest title contender Real Madrid feels that the defeats will affecting Barcelona’s fine run in the Spanish league.
Real Madrid who is the closest rival for the La Liga title feels that, Barcelona defeats in the champions league will affecting their future match in the La Liga.
Barcelona top of the table while Real Madrid following two points behind as at today after a win against Levante, Barca will play against Athletic Bilbao at home.
Arsenal success in their first leg champions league match at home against Barca gives a very big impact as a whole for Barcelona and La Liga respectively.
This is because, Barcelona had the finest run of winning throughout the season and slight hiccup from their latest defeat will slightly affecting their overall performance.
Let’s forget about La Liga, Arsenal who had been write off from the beginning after the last 16 champions league draw suddenly had change the whole current situation in the world of football.
Simply most of us cant believed for what has been happening for the last few days, gooners had top up their confidence with the young gunners and supporters reeling with a question whether Arsenal really that good? Off course we are and we have proved it
The whole world comes out with their perspective about our winning in the champions league against the world’s best team.
I have no idea where we are now after such historical wins but highly believed that we will end this February with a silverware and keep the unbeaten run with Leyton Orient in FA Cup today, Stoke City next in the premier league and Carling Cup final at Wembley against Birmingham City.
But such faith and believed that we had thrown out for Arsenal do comes out with a logic answer where Arsenal had gone far enough to establish their trade mark to the world of football.
Finally the priceless recognition comes from all over the world and our message about young footballers can rules the field as well can deliver good results for their team was a right decision.
Bunch of youngster will be never been underestimate again from now on and such calls of academy team will now banish from those who had said about it before.
Arsenal had shown the world how you can achieve success with a well guided grown youngsters in this modern football.
We can’t denied that in the first half of the game we are a bit shaky while Barcelona hold the balls more longer than us throughout the match.
Barcelona was supposed to beat us easily, but they were stunned by our young players determination and highly rated fighting spirit.
The main key of our success in that match was because we had a perfect synchronized teamworks which I believes Barcelona did not expects such situation will be happening to Arsenal young side.
Off course you need to stop and hold Lionel Messi movements in order to lighten up their attempt to attack against us.
However, Messi seems to be thinking differently in this match where he himself had a high respects for Arsenal players who he believes has change tremendously.
It’s not all about Messi alone, Barcelona had other players who could lift their team and win the game.
However, the rest of Barcelona players seems to appoint Messi alone to do the demolition job.
That is where they fails and the previous meeting of Messi inspirations with four goal was not working at all in this match.
Fine with that, Messi however create the chances for David Villa first goal in the first half and from there onwards Messi had accepted the task to run the show.
But Arsenal stood still till to the end of the first half, Barcelona really underestimates our golden boy Jack Wilshere in this match and more accurate word for that is they overlooked and skips the chapter about Jack Wilshere.
Barcelona took Wilshere lightly in this match where you can witnessed how he had a good game going all around the field with confidence.
And Wilshere who is in top forms did not waste his opportunity to show his true capability as what we have seen it was more than what we expected from Wilshere.
Arsene Wenger made a change in the 68 minutes – Arshavin for Song, surprisingly Wenger intention to mount up pressure agaisnt Barca and surely goes for more attacking football tactics. At the same time Wilshere will be pushed more forward with Nasri and Fabregas.
Walcott replace by Bendtner in the 77 minutes where Nasri and Fabregas will took charge from the middle. With such substitution, Arsenal are going for more attacking football to level the game and Wilshere need to back up Fabregas and Nasri up front.
Barca defenders are not aware with our strategies changes and the next minute we are level through superb chipped past defenders from Clichy found Van Persie who is on side. Van Persie run through to the left of the goal post and shoot past Valdes within a narrow space which is quite impossible to score.
11 goals in eight appearances for Van Persie and he scored from the tiniest space which is impossible to score but how on earth he did it.
Barcelona tries to come back after we equalised and they are going all up for a win but Arsenal run away with a breakthrough with Koscielny clearing run disposed the ball to Bendtner to Wilshere who quick found Fabregas which had a good look at Nasri run fast on the right.
Great pace and speed by Nasri pulling down most of Barca defenders with him but his cool nerve with genius quick thinking go for on coming Arshavin who had a good space to curls the ball in into the net past Valdes who took the wrong step.
This whole historic goals in which I believes put us leveled with Barcelona as the best team in the world. But with Nasri, Fabregas, Wilshere and Song excellence combination who had their best shot in this match outclassed Barca at the end of the match.
The actual facts is that we had the players who had a world class quality to equals what people had been talking about with Barcelona.
The second leg would not be matter enough for me as the wins at the Emirates really satisfies my believes that we are someone that others should notice from now on and forever.
Finally Emirates has leave something most valuable memories behind us all as an Arsenal fans and supporters.
Thanks to Wenger who had been so patient all this while and all his achievement was well paid the night we saw Arsenal stood tall with highly respects coming from all around the world for our latest supremacy.
Check out this memorable video by OSPalace which I believe to be the best to prescribes the whole story.