fabregas and van persie can only improve but so much because they both had good games. van persie's first chance wasn't as much that he didn't put it away as it was that valdes made a good save. van persie couldn't have done anything else with that shot or put it anywhere else. valdes just made a good save that had a little luck involved with it. Nasri is likely to have a good game on the return because Pique is out. Sagna is always an improvement on eboue and song....is song. He is a good player but your biggest disciplinary liability. All dat other sit about me hatin' 'cause I is a Chelsea fan and the "better team" winnin' is just nonsense.
Good save? You really only see what you want to see. The ball hit Valdez in the chest. He didn't know much about that at all.
The second bolded sentence calls your kicking knowledge into question.
If Van Persie was at full stretch, then yuh could say that he couldn't put the ball anywhere else, but that was not the case.
He hit it flush with the top of his foot, but also had the angle and space to hit it with some slice on the outside of his foot, which would send the ball nearer the first post and higher up.
Three plays really annoyed me:
Walcott made a pass to Van Persie on the right when he had Nasri I believe in acres of space on the left. Bad decision.
Also Van Persie had a shot on the left when Toure was coming across to him that went wide. He had no reason to miss the target on that one.
Then Bendtner with his greedy play when he went to the near post.
Messi had about 3 misses that we would expect him to score. The 1-v-1 that he chipped wide, the time he chipped it straight at the keeper, and the one he hit into the side netting. If it was the usual Messi he would have buried those.
I think the Nou Camp will be a slaughterhouse.
Edit: What Toure I talkin about dey? Now ketch myself.
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