Barcelona defeated ten-player Arsenal 2-1 to grab the Champions League title, officially they are the best team in Europe this season.
It's the second time they do it. The first was in 1992 against Sampdoria of Italy (which surprisingly now plays in the second division like many ex-champions of Serie A). I remember watching that game on Israeli TV when we didn't have satellite channels and the goal came in the 115th minute a few minutes before going into penalty kicks. Ronald Koeman shot one of his untsoppable rockets (the first picture above) and the commnetator was screaming in joy as if his parents were born in Barcelona. That game ended in a 1-0 victory.
Barcelona did it again and came from behind and scored 2 goals in 5 minutes by Etoo and Belletti .... you can't play with ten players and defeat Barcelona.
Last quick boring observation, out of the 11 players who started with Barcelona, only three were Spanish. In Arsenal, only two out of the eleven were English. The Bosman ruling rules!
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ReplyDeleteI like a few teams from every country (though my loyalty remains to Italy and Inter Milan). But Barca is one of my favorites from Spain.
I personally wanted Barca to win. Though I was pissed that not one Italian team made it to the finals. I so wanted Inter to play Juve or AC Milan. God that would've been a hot match.
Did you notice that there is a great resemblence between the 1992 and 2006 games? In 1992 Vialli who was the world's greatest striker missed three golden opportunities to score before Koeman struck and yesterday Henry missed two golden chances to put the game beyond Barcelona. In the end the better team won.
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Dar... bi sara7a man i didn't care that much neither of these teams is my favorite, i cheer for Boca Juniors i'm sure if they played Barcelona they'd smash them
Hareega you surprised me syaing you support Boxa Juniors since this is the first person in the arab world admitting to supporting an aregentine national team.
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