Big responsibilities for everyone really but the attack needs to take advantage of the oppositions weakness, they're the ones in the position to do some damage. There's not much the defence can do against the best front three around other than just stay as compact and organised as possible and hope it's enough.
I'm really excited for this match, honestly can't wait. I feel that we can definitely hit them on the break at pace. Theo has to start, but Ramsey is the key man I think.
Am I the only one scared shittles about this game ? Thinking it can end very very bad for us ?
Just watching highlights from 2011, Theo was a completely different player then. He looks lean and agile, and he can run with the ball. What happened?
We need our players to have a good game, especially Cech, Sanchez, Bellerin, Ramsey, Koscielny, Coquelin, Mertesacker, Walcott, Monreal, Özil and Giroud.
GaelForce wrote: Just watching highlights from 2011, Theo was a completely different player then. He looks lean and agile, and he can run with the ball. What happened?
Your watching highlights. All the times he stood on the ball are being edited out.
He turned into a striker, probably stopped giving a shit about all the on-the-ball drills.
We really need to get into Barca's faces from the starting whistle. Press like crazy. That's the only way we can get a result IMO. Barca play plenty of teams who sit back, they'll easily carve out chances either way.
speedy wrote: GaelForce wrote: Just watching highlights from 2011, Theo was a completely different player then. He looks lean and agile, and he can run with the ball. What happened? Your watching highlights. All the times he stood on the ball are being edited out.
That and Walcott is a big game player. He nearly always looks a level above in the big games.
Quincy Abeyie wrote: We need our players to have a good game, especially Cech, Sanchez, Bellerin, Ramsey, Koscielny, Coquelin, Mertesacker, Walcott, Monreal, Özil and Giroud.
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Its a bit like these amazing youtube players.
I think Bendtner in the pink boots just about edges Giroud for pace.
Khanuppet wrote: General wrote: Have to win at home to have any chance of going through but our attack is meh. First time we're facing them without a top quality striker. It's going to be ugly. I seem to recall bendtner leading the line for us against them.. hardly the first time.
General wrote: Have to win at home to have any chance of going through but our attack is meh. First time we're facing them without a top quality striker. It's going to be ugly.
Have to win at home to have any chance of going through but our attack is meh. First time we're facing them without a top quality striker. It's going to be ugly.
I seem to recall bendtner leading the line for us against them.. hardly the first time.
We had two world class finishers in Robin and Arshavin as support acts. Big difference.
Feeling more upbeat about this today. You tend to forget how shit La Liga is, we do actually have a modest chance of getting a home result, say one in four.
I recently watched the 3-2 win against Sunderland in 07/08. Theo was so quick, so agile, and can actually dribble properly.
Theo's always good against Barca to be fair. They're scared to death of him. No one to match him for pace in a team that loves to expose itself down the flanks. Wenger needs to start him and tell him to play like he did a couple of years ago on the wing.
To elaborate further, I don't think the transformation is entirely Walcott's fault. The team has changed for the worse in the last 18 months too. We simply don't play with width anymore. It feels unbelievable to write but it's definitely a conscious thing. Wenger would rather put Ramsey on the flank as an auxiliary central midfielder than play someone who can stretch the playing field. He insists on having Sanchez drop deep to pick up the ball on the left. It's all one big mess when it comes to the wide positions.
Theo was great in that match. Little bad was edited out.
Klaus wrote: To elaborate further, I don't think the transformation is entirely Walcott's fault. The team has changed for the worse in the last 18 months too. We simply don't play with width anymore. It feels unbelievable to write but it's definitely a conscious thing. Wenger would rather put Ramsey on the flank as an auxiliary central midfielder than play someone who can stretch the playing field. He insists on having Sanchez drop deep to pick up the ball on the left. It's all one big mess when it comes to the wide positions.
We get a lot more useful and productive width from our two fullbacks though compared to what did back then. Bellerin and Monreal are two of our best technical players and so they warrant the greater involvement in our play in my opinion.
Good response, but not entirely fair. Theo's such a strange player, and though his technique is much better than it was in 2007, I don't think he's come close to making the most of his abilities as a footballer. I don't think I've seen him successfully dribble in about three years now, his all round game's gotten worse and worse since his peak form in 12/13. That spell on the left wing was probably the worst I've ever seen him play.
Going to miss this one again, probably a good thing since I'm completely shitting myself already
