Gunners v Juventes [R]

[fuegote]

no one mentioned this yet...

the gunners won 2-0 in the first leg today. Go Aresenal.

[RSLfrontrowfan]

Juve is in trouble as Vieri, Camoranesi and Zebina will all be ineligible for the return leg due to cards.

[AreliusIV]

May 1987. Madonna, whose thighs have yet to swell to Mr Universe proportions, tops the charts with La Isla Bonita. Coventry have just thrilled their way to the FA Cup, a competition that still means something. And hundreds of fat, obnoxious City boys will soon be braying "Loadsamoney!" while waving coke-stained £50 notes at London's homeless. Happy days. Meanwhile in Arenys de Mar, Spain, Cesc Fabregas has emerged, dribbling and drooling, from his mother's womb.

Today, 18 years and 328 days, the dribbling and drooling was left to those raving about Fabregas's masterful performance against Juventus last night. "He is amazing and did brilliantly," announced Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, before adding a well-earned I-told-you-so: "I've always had faith in Cesc." In Italy, meanwhile, the pink pages of La Gazzetta dello Sport reckoned that Patrick Vieira had been "outclassed" by his "pupil".

Ah, Vieira. After a performance more off the pace than a Samoan part-timer in the Commonwealth Games steeplechase, the Frenchman found himself dismissed as a mere also-ran today. "In the theatre where he once directed the orchestra he immediately dropped the baton," harrumphed the Corriere dello Sport, while Tuttosport was equally blunt. "It should have been his night," it scoffed. "In the end those at Highbury understood just what a good bit of business Wenger had done."

Still, not everyone was as downbeat as the Italian papers. Gilberto Silva was quick to warn his team-mates that "Juventus were very, very upset with the result," and that "they are a team that never give up." Not counting last night, of course. Meanwhile on Juve's official website, Fabio Capello insisted: "Am I optimistic about the return leg? Always. But my team need a big game in Turin." And then some...

[prk166]

Originally Posted by RSLfrontrowfan

Juve is in trouble as Vieri, Camoranesi and Zebina will all be ineligible for the return leg due to cards.

Ya, they barely got past Werder Bremen with those 3.

[Aero]

Go Gunners! They sure have been fun to watch lately. It's too bad they weren't playing like this earlier in the year. They'd be giving Chelsea a run if they had been.

[Hiddnfox]

yea, Juve was almost non-existent in this game. arsenal were runnin circles around em