Hehehehehe............Cant wait to see Campbell(or what @Magigi calls isoma) marking the red-hot Messi.

@Taz, just to respond to your earlier comment prior to the draw, IMHO, the Barca of now is quite different (read better) from the Barc that beat you guys in the 2006 final. Agreed?

I have to agree with you that Bayern is not a walk in the park - actually no team at this stage is. Both Man Utd and Bayern know they have a great opportunity to reach the finalseeing as they'll be definitely pit against a French side in the semis. I'm hopeful of a second appearance in the final if we continue our current form in the CL. For now, I'll be cheering them against the Fools on Sun.

Barca are beatable, as Chelsea almost proved in last season's CL! Assnole, however, play Barca's style, and defense is what will matter. Without a doubt, Barca's defense is better than Assnole, objective fans will agree. But then again, this is CL. Ask Real.

So there's my 2 cents. By the way I'll be supporting Assnole in the tie, compe watoke!

This will be a game of pure flowing football, it will be a fantastic match. Barca's defense is poor (not that ours is any better) so scoring goals will not be a problem, all we need to do is figure out a way of controlling Messi!

another terrible game from the gunners..ama butterflies zimeja kwa tumbo after the Barca draw!!!!!!!

the trophy to them feels like mlefu and Wendz..sooo close yet too far!!!!

Terrible game? Controlling possession for 45 minutes and restricting opponents to one real chance while creating a few of your own all that while down to ten men and missing your top defensive unit ???

Terrible game -> leave that to the 1-1 game blackburn vs chelsea.

I'm sure if Man U Chelsea & Liverpool won that - it would be seen to be down to 'grit and determination of champions'.

It is good to sometimes remove our team colour tinted glasses and look at games objectively.

On another note - has anyone made it for one of those flood lit mid week games at Nyayo ?

terrible..again and again..typical end of season game..they have lost the same ways in the previous seasons..they dont improve and tottenham will thrash them..enough said.

aston wasted a home advantage for the fourth position..f*** them,their next victims should be the ones to pay..chelski is the team to beat.

fools..i will leave them to walk.

chelski won't take two beatings in a row --draw at Blackburn hehehehe...overconfidence and a loss to Aston--..by default nuggus will pay for it..

that leaves the "to be" champions leading..but they have to look past the Barca effect...something like..wenger dedicates Song to man Messi..mambo bad!!!!!

Chelshit next game,their game in hand, will be this wednesday against Pompey. That will re-align the table to a more familiar look.

@mcreggae,
Some posts back and i said here that the twists and turns starts this week-end....I am happy that Gunners (Masters of Joga Bonito...lol) are breathing on your necks even harder and the "overtaking" indicators are on......BTW,you ought not be proud of "beating" Liver by a dubious penalty!!

McReggae.....like its been said the gunners overtaking indicator is on. Our next two games involve B'ham and Wolves while Man U have a date with Chelsea. It doesn't matter what the scores will be because it will be a win-win situation for Arsenal.

On another note Messi is proving to be a football genius...the guy scored three goals last night (solo efforts).

I would have prefered we dish a clean 4 -1 in kind for the humiliation we suffered last season but like SAF said, life is never that simple! Of course the penalty should have been a free kick outside the box so we're not bragging about it but who said life is fair? The Fools had all of 85 minutes afterwards to beat us but they didn't so what does that say about the team?

Mr.Bean and co should be focusing on how they'll stop the unstoppable Messi after his 2nd hat trick in as many weeks at Zaragoza, his 2nd goal was better than the goal Maradona scored at the 86 World Cup semis!

Nowadays there's no easy game in the EPL, ask Chelshit at Blackburn. So that notion that Gooners have an easier run of games (on paper they are)than Man Utd is called illusions of grandeur. Wait till the last game then we can exchange notes.