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villa is the best striker in the world his better than ibrahimovich and eto wat u on about check his goal tally for spain and valencia snm

They are equally good, but Villa suits Barca more, cuz he PASSES the ball, Ibra is super badass, but he wants to play all by himself. Barca is all about teamwork.

I don think so, he cant beat Ronaldo,look at what he had won my friend. please check his achievements...

harder??? hahaah PL teams sucks!! barca gonna winn PL easly dude!! you gonna see in CL they gonna CRUSH arsenal and than chelsea and than inter and the final man utd ! VISCA BARCA

we all lucky to live in this time that messi is playing outstanding and best football ever!! THANKS GOD FOR THIS MAN !!!!

whether or not Arsenal gonna lose the match we would only know it on Feb 16 and it is SIMPLE. Before the match u win NOTHING. Fact is not stupid, fact tells u that u have problem to complement two styles of play - Passing games initiated by Xavi & Iniesta to Villa or Pedro or getting Messi to to run everywhere to seek his luck or bulldozing to past defenders. Either way u don't have aerial attack as u have no Ibra. To add, yr team is playing Arsenal and there is no Joel Barton or else Messi's legs will break 10 times.

Just to wake u up with more facts. Valencia sold their two best players: Villa to Barcelona 40m sterling pd & David Silva 26m sterling pd and they can still stay at the 4th place an just a point behind 3rd place Villareal. Barca in full force at home could only beat them 2-1. u tell me how competitive can La Liga be compare to EPL.

More facts.... In EPL, the bottom table Wolves defeated no 1 MU 2-1 whereas Barcelona thrashed Almeria 8-0. What do u wish to talk about the competiveness of these two Leagues? La Liga is a waste of time and just hand the trophy to Barcelona. EPL? No one knows and MU thought it was theirs but they got a knock immediately by bottom table Wolves.

fck u kevin u r juz as noisy as ur mum..lyk a fckin women selling staffs in market

what else to prove. u can say epl better than la liga, whatever,,,!!!but dont say arsenal better than barca

Arsenal or Barcelona who is better will be told on the pitch! With fck, fckin and etc...u uttered only reflects that u re a dog or wrost than it!

la liga sux most player standing like tree on pitch but on epl u can c all the players running all the time

FUCK YOU DUDE!! go fuck some dicks of madristas !!

FU-CK YOU !!!

you saying that because you know that messi is the best and you want to pretect ronaldo!! okay they are all good players!! but messi is still level higher than ronaldo!! messi give everyone match a assist or score a goal!! if messi had a bad day, hi can give a assist, if ronaldo had a bad day, he can't give a assist or score a goal! messi can give passes who no one can doo that!! messi is play maker, ronaldo has no brain for this skill!! ronaldo doing trucs on the field! because he thinks with that he gonna be the best!! but he is afraid and he can't do anything else!! just messi is GOD!! accept it!! ronldo is second best!

no man... they both share same achievements in the footballing world.. its never always about winning....what counts is performance messi scores for the club and ronaldo scores himself to help his club

you draw 4-4 ! barca is much better than last year pedros cores more and villa does it better than ibra! arsenal sucks!!!

Yes, 4-4 and we had stupid Diaby kenna RED and two soft PK awarded to NUFC. We too had Djourou taken out after 4-0 lead. We had AW tried to adopt parking bus tactics which the Gunners are not comfortable. We took Walcott & AA out for parking a bus resulted in RVP & Fabregas become helpless. NUFC played well in the last 22 minutes. Ref & Linesman are too good to believe to all the MU & NUFC fans. Kos & Sq partnership suck. Kos over enthusiastic in the defence turned to stupidity. Many more......SO WHAT? Throw away two precious points or else MU starts to panick. Btw, many lessons learnt. Our CDN Alex Song shall be back and hopefully Nasri can recover to take part. Barca, no Charles Puyol this time, yr defence is even more vulnerable.

Villa is better than Ibra, sorry, it is subjective. Villa will give Barca only one option - ground attack whereas Gunners fear Ibra the most as Ibra got the aerial advantage and Gunners are weak in aerial defence.

Barca's line-up will not be a large variation from: Keeper - Victor Valdes Defenders - Eric Abidal, Dani Alves, Gerald Pique & Maxwell Midfield - Sergio Busquest, Xavi & Iniesta Foward: David Villa, Lionel Messi & Pedro Messi will visit London come Feb 16. Last season he didn't shine at Emirates stadium. Alex Song handled him well in the 1st half and Denilson took over in the 2nd when Song became a make-shift CB for injured Gallas and he too kept Messi in a quiet game. Song didn't play in Arsenal-Newcastle match and he should be back for Barca together with Denilson.

Villa is not Ibra? Your damn right there, Villa is 5 times the forward Ibra is dumbass.

@kevin dude!! you telling here stupid facts!! plss don't wast your time!! barca gonna winn against arsenal!! do you realy think arsenal gonna beat barca?? LOL , maybe in your dreams!! and puyol will be back at that time dude!! messi villa pedro is THE TRIO of this year !! and who have score more than 20 goals this season by arsenal?? no one?? hahah pedro villa messi ,, they have more than 20 goals scored!! and messi?? he is on fire dude!! he gonna eat you up!!!

U obviously dont have a clue about football, anything can happen in 90 minutes. I hate it when people suddenly turn phsycic... And as for Ibrahimovic I dont think you lot have been watching him for milan this season... Arsenal have matured now and will know the expectaions from the fans for the barca match so I think arsenal will make both legs VERY difficult for barca, our team will have alot of beliefe aswell therefore im predicting Arsenal to scrape ther way through the 2 legs and get a result.

okay!! iy will be a good game and hard game and it will be close match!! but never forget what happens with madrid everyone say's it will be close game . people thought 2-1 for barcelona but it was 5-0 for barca!! so maybe it gonna be arsenal 0-4 or 0-5 barcelona!! like last year!! barca was topclass in arsenal!! fisrt time=== barca 15 chances arsenal 1 chance!! and arsenal played better in camp nou!! barca is going to the CL title dude! arsenal isn't favoriet!! barca is on fire now!! arsenal is gonna attack barca but than barca gonna have space to score if everyone from arsenal attacking!! and than will it be 0-5 for barca!! VISCA BARCA!!

Arsenal have improved this season but they are consistent Barca are better than ever every day passing and now they have villa and pedro also scoring too many.. I hope we see a competitive game this time around

I knw anythg is possible to happen in football, but u sound like Barca is dam sure will disqualified by Arsenal. Quite silly to cum out such early statement and later beat by Barca n summor score by Messi, then u will knw how shameful ur words r. Anyway, Im still happy for d comming match.

villa better than ibra but eto better than villa.

Puyol may be back but he may not be fit to take on RVP who was absent last season and we experienced it in Fabregas in our home game against Barca (though his assist resulted in a PK and he then converted it) last season and MU at OT last Dec. Even he is fit it is the same Pique-Puyol. With Walcott, AA & RVP available and in fine form I doubt Adidal & Alves would move freely to assist in attack. U may have to think that Barca will still have that fortune like last season dominating the midfield. Even so it was 2-2 last season as the fact speaks. Basically, Barca's attack are of two: Messi's Maradona style of individual flair & the fluid passing initiated by Xavi & Iniesta to Villa & Pedro. It is simple and predictable and may get into each other's way so it depends on how the Gunners would counter with the available defenders and tactics. Sagna & Clichy were poor last seasons but they have improved this time. I have to check if Sagna is available for the match I remember he was red carded and Eboue may take his place. The two CBs TV & Gallas were ok in the 1st half and in the 2nd Clichy, TV & makeshift CB Song could not communicate well resulting in Ibra's 2 goals. This time, Arsenal will have Djourou & Koscienly partnership with Song in CDM and they should be more compact than last season. If Nasri can recover in time I don't see the fragile Barca defence can cope. In addition, Xavi & Iniesta's partnership has come down after reaching the peak in last year's WC. I too think the Gunners can bring the slim advantage to Nou camp and scrape thru in the end. Talk about Barca 5 RM 0 it was some two months ago and RM under Mour have yet to play as a team.

Yes, Sagna got a red card in Arsenal's last UCL group match and I'm not sure who AW will field to mark Villa and probably Eboue will take his place. Arsenal may surprise everyone by fielding Chamakh & Bentner and as both of them have the aerial advantage over the Barca defence. In short, Arsenal have more options than Barca (one only) in attack.

arsenal gonna lose !!! dude !! barca has won 17 games !! it's a historic spanisch record!! that 44 from arsenal?? WTF,, why the can't score 5th goal if they can score 4 ?? badly!!and llok to fabregas, captian of arsenal!! youth player of barcelona!! i hope he comes back to barca!!

u may be right that Barca is the king of La Liga no teams can challenge them and they score freely. Mour is in his 1st season with RM and RM still in a mess and they are in the 2nd place largely due to the individual flairs and if they are not a team they cann't challenge Barca and they will lose 5-0 again if there is no improvement. Arsenal have improved in every departments this season and they have all the key players ready except Nasri(injured) & Sagna(red carded and will miss the 1st leg). Look at other teams in La Liga, Valencia know that they have no hope so they cashed out Villa for huge profit. Other top 6 teams such as Villareal, Athletic Bilbao & Espanyol are never in the class of Spurs & Liverpool. SO What is so great about the 70 goals they score so far? Btw, we shall see a real test on Feb 16 and don't surprise me to return to Nou camp with 5 ducks!

u asked why they cann't score the 5th goal if they can score 4? That is precisely the problem and that is what we said ARSENAL SUCK! AW had seen too many matches that the opponents come back to beat them eg. Spurs won 3-2 after down 2-0. Wigan drew 2-2 having trailed 2-1 and a man down. AW tried parking a bus and he took Walcott & AA out. We were left with the poor Wilshere & Fabregas in the midfield and a lone striker RVP seaching for 5th goal. They did try and RVP was caught controversially offside in his 5th goal effort. Didn't u see that. We don't blame Fab though he is the captain he is more a CAM and a schemer in attack. Rosicky & Eboue came in for the tactical play and they should work with the two CBs to exevute the parking a bus. They failed and it is not Fab's fault and if someone has to shoulder the responsibility of the failure it is AW himself. I am happy that all the Gunners' shortcomings are exposed in the match and it really arrive at a good time when Barca are coming though at an expense of two precious points.

barca gonna kick arsenal ASS!! whait and watch!! JUST ONE WEEK ^^

It is unfortunate that Arsenal again could not have all the best players for the match. Or we say that Barca is lucky that Nasri is injured and Djourou & Alex Song are doubtful together with the suspended Sagna. My worry is the replacement for Sagna and Eboue will be the one and I am not sure if he can handle Villa & Iniesta. AA has yet to recover his form and it would be ideal if Nasri can recover on time for the match.

dude !!! do you realy think if nasri plays , we gonna lose?? !! nasri is not GOD dude!! we have the god players xavi iniesta and messi!! we have more chance , more kwality ! ,more perfection!, more top class, more confidence!! we are the best!! arsenal - barcelona , i want just a good game!! but we know already the results! arsenal LOSE!!

ok, we get an Arsenal equivalent Spanish Club Valencia to compare. In full force including the 40m pd Villa could only beat a Valencia team without their best players Villa & David Silva 2-1 narrowly at home. Valencia actually took the lead only for Barca to come back with goals by Iniesta & Puyol. Where did Messi & Villa on fire? Barca defence suck is known to everyone and without Puyol they don't even have someone taking the lead at the back. As for Messi, Xavi & Iniesta I wonder who will dictate the play? Barca will follow the usual fluid passing or let Messi go on his own. It is the team which win the match and not for Messi alone take on a team. if Nasri play together with Walcott, RVP & Fabregas in attack and Song provide the cover at the back the Gunners can destroy Barca's vulnerable defence.

kevin the dog hahaha go bck n tell ur mum ur bedtime story is better

Basictly I say we all come back to this convo after the game just to see who realy is an idiot... Ur saying that fact about madrid but what about when we played chelsea at the emirates (we believed we could beat them) and what happened? Yh barca are probably the best team in the world atm but arsenal are not far of, its coz we our team has so much haters it makes people look at the bad things that happen in our games.. This arsenal team is totally diffrent from last years. our top players are back from injury the only concern is not having nasri bu on the other hand we have RVP back, and walcott wilshere and song are twice as good as they wer last year

Now Djourou is back and he will partner Kos to stop Messi & Co. I hope Nasri can surprise us by sitting on the bench and until today it seems that AA will take his palce. AA is a world class player and he may choose Feb 16 encounter with Barca to rediscover his form. Particularly impressed by Arsenal's performance against Chelsea at Emirates stadium. Chelsea were in full strength then (only Anelka's place was filled by Kalou) and were beaten convincingly. Like the 1st goal in particular and it was scored by Alex Song who ran to the box to take the shot while Fabregas was tripped by Ferreira in the box with a seemly pk to be awarded. In the meantime, RVP too sensed the opportunity and already waited in the box. Jack Wilshere initiated the move. If Arsenal can reproduce the form in their home win against Chelsea I don't see Barca's fragile defence can withstand. In addition, RVP has regained his sharpness since then. What is left will be for AW to find a way to cut off Xavi & Iniesta's supply of bullets and assign someone to man mark Messi. Away game at Camp Nou, they may consider Liverpool way of using three CBs. Sky is brighter now!

when this novel comes to the end ????