Arsenal Thread

[Herr Matzat]

i do not care about the german national team, but seing Kahn not get the spot fills my heart with so much joy.

my team plays munich tommorow in a home game, i hope this has some negative efeckt on Mr. Nr. 2 - bwhahahaha.

[Guest muddatrucker]

To me, Lehmann has been the best goalkeeper in the premiership this term and he's the only player I felt for when we were losing since he never deserved to conceed.

I hate Oliver Kahn too, so its nice to see, lets just hope he conceeds when it matters.

[TheArsenal]

Fantastic character from the lads today. There would have been times this season where we sat back after conceeding and taken the draw, but even with the Villareal game on our minds, we kept going and scored twice to guarantee the win. Awesome to see Bergkamp getting a goal on "Bergkamp Day" and damn important that we're keeping up with Spurs. Next weekend's game could go a long way to deciding who takes fourth place. And I'll be there, on my birthday, at the last North London derby at Highbury, to see our boys pick up the win.

Good to see us pick things back up after the Portsmouth game.

[TheArsenal]

Any predictions for tonights game then??

[Guest Ringmaster The Living Legend]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Villareal will edge it 1-0. It all really depends on how well Arsenal marks Riquelme.

[TheArsenal]

I'll say 2-0, possibly 3-0 to the Gunners

[fineintent]

People thought Man Utd would beat Villareal, especially as they were missing Riquelme, and it ended up 0-0. Arsenal could be in for a bit of a shock, as Villareal are a tight team, difficult to penetrate and if, Riquelme has a good day, they can go forward as well as anyone else.

[Guest Ringmaster The Living Legend]

SQUIRREL ON THE FIELD, SQUIRREL ON THE FIELD. BAH GAWD.

[TheArsenal]

That squirrel is about a mile offside.

EDIT:- and Henry wasn't....

Edited April 19, 2006 by TheArsenal

[therockbox]

Not interfering with play.

[Guest Ringmaster The Living Legend]

Another squirrel? No wonder Arsenal's moving to another stadium.

[TheArsenal]

Another squirrel? No wonder Arsenal's moving to another stadium.

Edited April 19, 2006 by TheArsenal

[TheArsenal]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!

KOLO TOURE!!!!!!!!

COME ON THE ARSENAL!!!!!!!!

[Guest Ringmaster The Living Legend]

Well that ruined my prediction

COME ON ARGENTINA.

[TheArsenal]

Didn't ruin mine.

And I can see Riquelme getting sent off. He's talked his way into getting a yellow card. A harsh tackle or more back chat int he second half and he's gone. And that would ee him out of the second leg.

[Guest Ringmaster The Living Legend]

The referee's been bad so far, with the Henry offside stuff and the Mari no-penalty stuff. I guess it evened out in the end (one goal attempt dissallowed on each side), but someone should still kick Anders Frisk the second in the nuts, he's been doing shit in pretty much every game I've seen him ref so far.

[TheArsenal]

Awesome.

Villareal have won their last two ties on the away goals rule, often sitting back at home and just defending. They won't be able to do that now, and we may be able to capitalise.

Yet another European clean sheet too.

[Cortez]

Was a good win tonight, but obviously putting a second past them would make the second leg alot more comfortable for us. The second leg will be tough but I'm confident that we can beat them, possibley another 1-0. And once again a clean sheet in Europe as TheArsenal stated. Lets just hope the ref for the second leg is nothing like the one we had tonight, he was awful IMO.

Just need to beat Spurs on Saturday and we could be in for a good end of season. Fingers crossed.

[TheArsenal]

Second leg tonight.

I'm already feeling the nerves ahead of the match tonight. This could mean so much for the club, getting to our first Champions League final ever. Hopefully a good result tonight might convince Henry to sign a new contract too. I think this season we've shown our ambition for the future, and that we have a team that can perform and will only be better in years to come. We never really did show it to Vieira, but with Fabregas, Eboue, Flamini, van Persie, Senderos and more all showing themselves as having the quality to be estblished first team players, and a whole host of reserve/youth players all getting some first team action has shown that we're moving towards having a gret squad, not just a great team.

[Guest muddatrucker]

We need some experienced players and a better squad, theres along way to go.