Archive for August 27th, 2009

Arsenal is on its way to the Champions League. The Gunners completely outplayed and outclassed Celtic. The first Arsenal goal was via the PK. This was not a foul in the box. Eduardo dived. He deserved an Oscar for his performance. Eduardo expertly placed PK made it 1-0 for the Gunners after twenty-seven minutes.

The Gunners played tick, tack, doe offensive futebol. Eboue scored an easy walk in goal in the 53^rd minute to put this baby out of reach at 2-0.

Arshavin juked right, then spun left, and beat the helpless Celtic keeper Artur Boruc lower right to make it 3-0 Gunners after seventy-four minutes.

This sequence of events was set up by a great steal by Denilson in the Celtic half.

Sloppy play by Arsenal set up Celtic’s lone goal. Donati broke free into the box. His sharp angled strike went bang off the right post and into the back of the net in the dying moments of the match to give Arsenal a 3-1 victory over Celtic.

Celtic does not belong on the same pitch with the likes of Arsenal or Barcelona. The Champions League needs to re think they way they let teams into the Champions League. Clearly, Celtic and Rangers are great in the Scottish League but when they step out and play other European clubs, they can’t compete.

Arsenal has one huge glaring weakness no strikers. If the Gunners don’t fix this problem, they could be in for a rude awakening when the take on the Red Devils this weekend.

Carioca clubs Flamengo and Fluminense battled each other last night at Maracana in the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana. Both teams battled to a lack luster zero-zero tie two weeks ago at the same venue. Fluminense was the home for the first leg and Flamengo was the home side last night.

Flamengo is in a world of hurt. They have played like crap so far.

Mengao Rubio Negro played without heart. Flamengo had numerous scoring chances so far and  all they had to show for it was a big fat goose egg. 

Fluminense got on the board first on a questionable penalty. It looked like a clean tackle. Besides Roni was clearly a step outside of the box. Roni nailed the PK to make 1-0 Po-de-Arroz at the break.

Flamengo got the equalizer in the 61^st minute. Denis Marques had two Fluminense defenders hanging all over him. He dribbled a few steps. He stopped and popped the shot from the top of the box over the dumb founded Po-de-Arroz keeper Felipe to tie this baby up at one all.    

The match ended up a one all tie but Fluminense advanced to the next round on away goal difference.

Flamengo applied a lot of second half pressure but Mengao could not tickle the twines.  This team needs help. I am not too sure, what the problem is however I think it lies with Adriano. Adriano is good scorer but everywhere he goes discord and problems follow.  Dunga named him to play for the national team and this is huge mistake.

Flamengo now has to get ready for a huge match with Santo Andrea this Saturday night. This is a must for the Mengao

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