What a week for Premiership Clubs in the Champions League. None more so than Tottenham who went to the San Siro and stuck one up the moaning, sore losing Italians. Arsenal last night also got a little piece of revenge on Barcelona.
Lets go back to Tuesday night, AC Milan thought this was going to be an easy game and ended up having pasta on their faces. Peter Crouch scored the games only goal, Milan looked to be out of ideas.
To make themselves look even more stupid, after the game that horrible excuse for a man Guttuso decided to attack the Spurs coaching staff, why oh who Harry didn't plant one on his lame Italian lip is beyond me!
It will be a fascinating 2nd leg at The Lane and let's all hope that Spurs can not only hold on but make an exhibition out of it.
On to last night's action now. Arsenal came from one down to beat Barcelona 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium. Now what gets to me about Barcelona is the way the Pundits talk about them as being invincible. Do they realize that Inter Milan are holders of the Champions League? All they seem to go on about is how amazing this Barca side are, how they have reached heights beyond what any team have ever achieved. What are they on about? There are plenty of teams in the past who have matched what this side has done. Granted, they have some great players, but they are beatable. Maurinho proved that last season and Arsenal showed it again last night.
Barcelona took the lead through Villa on the half hour mark, a lead they deserved. Well saying that, for all the pretty one touch stuff that you expect to see, there was very little end product. Arsenal stuck to their game plan and late in the 2nd half grabbed an equalizer. Shocking goalkeeping is all I can say. Then 5 minutes later it was 2 for the Gunners and again I must state that Valdes in the Barca goal is a terrible keeper. They have a week spot, they have an Achilles heel and it is the keeper. You shoot either side of this guy and you stand a massive chance of scoring.
I fancy Arsenal to go through as too Spurs, after the disappointment in Europe last season, these two sides this week have shown us hope.
I must also ask the pundits, the commentators and all other parties involved in the broadcasting of The Champions League, stop singing the praises of these foreign clubs, stop saying that they are better than ours as this week, not only did they lose to the better teams but showed that you lot looked like you know nothing about the game.
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