I'll take that, still expect Barca to win the second leg but who knows, stranger things have happened. Still, just like us to make things very difficult for ourselves. Never a red card for Puyol, not even sure it was a penalty and certainly had more blatant ones not given this season, hope his card his overturned
Outclassed for 23 minutes, found some discipline after that to restrict Barca while Nasri and Bendtner did well to create anything from the useless service they got. Furious with Vermalen and Almunia for handing them two goals in second half, two balls over the top, both horribly misread by our cb and Almunia showing poor judgment. Didn't see a way back for us to be honest, two subs used already, being outplayed, keeper reverting to his bad old form, Song have to fill in at the back...
Walcott's goal lifted us, bit of a poor shot but fine pass through by Bentdner, who was our best player by miles and set up both goals. How things turned, our passes were rushed but we finally had Barca under pressure, if only we had shown that tempo far earlier in the game. Still, a draw isn't to be sneezed it, we worked hard, kept battling and with Bendtner up front+ a bit of luck, proved to be enough
Individually, too many poor or patchy performances. Almunia kind of summed up his last few seasons, some moments of magic to make one hope he has turned the corner then making silly errors that cost us dearly. We need players to perform for 90 minutes in Barca, not for ten or 30, 90. Only our striker can claim to have done that
