CL: Arsenal vs Juventus/Juv. vs AFC | 28/03/06 & 05/04/06

[James]

Vieira no suspention. Welcome back Patrick, you know what you should do,

Vieira 4 yellow cards , suspended. Now stfu. ta.

Vieira played this week. Did he pick up a card this week? I cannot remember.

No.

 

[BannedKwame]

Ok, ok, let's not get too foolish the other way either!! We aren't frikkin' muppets you know?

 

[chucks20]

The good news is that everybody will be fit apart form Ashley, Clichy and Lauren. That's if we don't pick up more injuries.

 

[BannedKwame]

Quite frankly, I have no f****g idea where the extreme confidence is coming from!! We scored 1 goal against the worst defensive team left in the CL. We are playing against the most efficient team in the CL, and we are putting Senderos against Ibrahimovich and Del Piero.

Let's not get too foolish over the win over Madrid; this will be a tough tie.

What are you going on about?

I don't think anyone has said this is going to be easy.

Read the first page

 

[patrick42uk]

i think we'v done great to get this far considering how poor our squad is. anything from this stage on is a bonus. the annoying thing is the semi final draw looks good.

the only advantage we have over juve is younger legs, although its a matter of opinion if that is actually an advantage. i also think we have more pace in the side but juve are great at nullfying that. they love to play on the counter too. i think scoring early on in the first game is important like liverpool did

 

[sabret00the]

Quite frankly, I have no f****g idea where the extreme confidence is coming from!! We scored 1 goal against the worst defensive team left in the CL. We are playing against the most efficient team in the CL, and we are putting Senderos against Ibrahimovich and Del Piero.

Let's not get too foolish over the win over Madrid; this will be a tough tie.

Senderos is coming back to his best and is still my preference over Campbell.

 

[Tris_1]

Juve? bring it on!

C'mon Gunners :!:

 

[kanooo]

Why can't we dream that we can beat them.

If history repeats itself, we should beat them. We've beaten them 3:1 at Highbury a few seasons back although we lost 0:1 away.

True. Juve are doing well in Serie A and they are not the same team since then but ... why not? Why can't we dream that we can beat them again?

Besides, I hate Italian Football.

We've done relatively well against the Italians also. Inter, Roma, Lazio & Juve.... we've beaten them all before.

So why should we lie down and die just because they're at the top of Serie A?

IMO, Milan are far more dangerous than Juve...

 

[vinny_60]

patrick vieira is NOT suspended and is going to play against arsenal at highbury. i think arsenal will win this tie as long as we do what liverpool did against them. juventus has not looked great this season in the champions league. their defence is beatable if we go at them. we cannot sit back and let them dictate the tempo. we can certainly beat them for pace in terms of midfield and attack down the flanks because there full backs attack a lot. i can really see us beating them as long as we dont panick or give vieira too much respect. fans at the game should not cheer for vieira nor boo him..i hope..dream tie in my opinion..

 

[bojed]

juve's a good side, nobody can deny that.

the only thing why i wanted us so badly to play juve apart from winning in both legs is because i want to see the battle between cesc and vieira.

an arsenal legend in the making vs an arsenal legend.

classic.

 

[sabret00the]

did we knock juve out in 2002?

 

[goonerwarsh]

I think there's good reason for optimism. Why not, better to have that than a defeatist attitude and be beaten before we even go on the pitch. If the team are gonna come through this one, they'll need complete belief and so will the fans.

No one gave us a chance against Real and no one will give us a chance against Juventus which is all the better for us

 

[Original_AAA]

Juventus is one of the favourites too win the entire tournament. That would again make us the underdogs, which suited us nicely against Real Madrid. However Juve has a slow defence which would suit Henry and also Walcott well.

If we beat Juve, then the three teams we will face in a semifinal would suit us well.

Oh and welcome back Viera! May this be your worst result at Highbury ever

 

[clockwork orange]

The good news: Plenty of tickets available for the away match & RVP never lost against Italian oppostion.

 

[kanooo]

did we knock juve out in 2002?

No ....

But we've met them in Group Stage.

 

[RocktheCasbah]

did we knock juve out in 2002?

They knocked us out IIRC, but it was complicated, we could have beaten them and not gone through. As it was they beat us 1-0 and that was us for that competition

 

[champions04]

Don't think Vieira is suspended. Sky sports would have definately mentioned if he was. The only player they said would miss the first leg was Nedved, so it looks like Vieira will be returning to Highbury.

David Pleat said that it isn't the best draw but it isn't the worst and I agree with him.

 

[Reyes(9)]

Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein is relishing the return of Juventus midfielder Vieira at Highbury.

He said: "It couldn't be more glamorous than that. Real Madrid was special and this will be enormously interesting.

"Patrick was at the club for nine years and won lots of trophies. I am sure he will get a very warm reception.

"I know Juventus are running away with their domestic league, but our boys will be up for it, don't worry. There is a lot of confidence in our team."

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot ... 790144.stm

 

[Liberace]

we avoided the in-form teams Barcelona, Lyon, Milan.

I saw the Juve - Werder match, and believe me Juve can be beaten and they are certainly weaker than lyon and Barcelona.

good draw!

 

[joetsang]

either we are or we are not good enough to win the cl.

if we are not good enough, what's the point of advancing one more round by beating a "weaker" team, just to be eliminated in the semi-final?

i have no problem whatsoever with playing juve now! let's face the tough test!