Arsenal Blog Arsenal Barcelona - Post Match Agony

Day after the Barcelona match and I am sure Arsenal fans are still not able to swallow the bitter pill. Yes the dream is over & we are out of the elite european competition. Most of us thought that this team could redeem themself by winning the tie not to mention the cup & there by reinstate Arsene's belief/vision that he has encompassed on young players.

Scoreline of 4-1 may not reflect the way we played but thats how football is, If you dont take your half chances against big teams more often then not you will end up loosing by a big margin. As an observer it is always easy to to come up with a post match analysis and things which we could have done well to win the game however I am not going to do that as we all know what has been our problem over the past few years.

We cant give an excuse for 6 years that we are a selling club, this team is building up, this team has lots of youngsters & it always takes some time to build a team with so many youngsters.......All fans including ardent Arsene fans knows this fact that somehow Arsene's vision is not working and 6 years without a trophy is a testimony to that. Arsene himself recognises this fact and was quoted saying he will spend this season - http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=767284&sec=uefachampionsleague&cc=5901

I personally feel Arsene needs to look at below things if we want to do well in coming seasons:

1. Spend on quality players. Not necessary spend loads of money like Real Madrid but spend sensible and get big match players in the team who can stay fit and help our cause

2. I hate saying this but we cant have too many liabilities in our team. Players like Persie, Rosicky, Diaby... either need to work on their fitness or need to be shown a way out as we need players who can stay fit throughout the season.

3. With strikers like Bendtner in the team we need to ensure we have quality wingers who can deliver quality crosses in the box. Lets not forget all our important goals this season have been through headers. We need to develop more on this aspect as playing eye catching football is one thing and winning matches is another.

4. Almunia can be a superb blocker on his day however we need someone who is more consistent. Some of his decisions under pressure have been abysmal to say the least. Even his goal kicks have not been up to the mark which eventually sets up our attack.

We have a lot of potential just that we need to instill a winning mentality in this team and with few new players we should be back in contention. Common Arsenal, In Arsene we trust!!!!

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