How can a referee just spoil an entire round, and on a larger scale an entire competition just with a lawsy lawsy refereeing. Awful... The two yellows van persie got were uncalled for, little cirurgical fouls here and there keeping Arsenal in the back, Abidal should have been sent off for strangling van persie...
Barcelona was the better team this game, but that doesn't erase the Awful job that Massimo Busacca did...

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

March 08 2011 21:51 GMT

#2625

Yeah the ref definately tip the balance towards barcelona!

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Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

March 08 2011 21:52 GMT

#2626

On March 09 2011 06:51 ilj.psa wrote:
Yeah the ref definately tip the balance towards barcelona!

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You're an idiot if you think the sending off did not affect any of those stats.

fbs

United Kingdom2476 Posts

March 08 2011 21:53 GMT

#2627

lol van persie calls the ref a joke, says he doesn't know why he was here tonight, says he killed the game

Stimp

South Africa780 Posts

March 08 2011 21:54 GMT

#2628

I find it funny how arsenal have a goal with 0 shots on target, or off target for that matter

bObaZ

Portugal862 Posts

March 08 2011 21:54 GMT

#2629

lol. i'm both a barcelona and arsenal supporter, but last year the stats of Barcelona - Inter were even more one sided and still inter got trough...

AngryLlama

United States1227 Posts

March 08 2011 21:55 GMT

#2630

That was super lame , the second yellow card to Rvp

Great game by barca. Business as usual, i guess you could say.

Messi+Xavi+Iniesta+Alves+Abidal players of the game imo

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

March 08 2011 21:55 GMT

#2631

On March 09 2011 06:52 Telcontar wrote:

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You're an idiot if you think the sending off did not affect any of those stats.

Yeah
The only stat that matters is that it was 3-2 to Arsenal on aggregate when RVP was sent off.

Exactly the same thing happened in the last leg; Barce dominated possession and the game in the first half but Arsenal came back in the second half.

Copymizer

Denmark2094 Posts

March 08 2011 21:58 GMT

#2632

Barca's passes completed and ball posession is just insane lol. No wonder they're the best of the best in the world right now with their playstyle and ideology.

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

March 08 2011 21:58 GMT

#2633

On March 09 2011 06:52 Telcontar wrote:

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You're an idiot if you think the sending off did not affect any of those stats.

It affected in the second half, though Arsenal did little to nothing with the full squad on the 1st half.

snarl

Canada812 Posts

March 08 2011 21:59 GMT

#2634

I am not sure what the ref thinks RVP is supposed to do in that situation. If he doesn't shoot and wastes the chance what is he supposed to tell Wenger?

divinesage

Singapore649 Posts

March 08 2011 22:00 GMT

#2635

Someone needs to put trollface on Busacca. Horrible, just horrible.

MassHysteria

United States3678 Posts

March 08 2011 22:01 GMT

#2636

Ya their ball passing is incredible. So crisp and precise, it's really nice to watch.

Copymizer

Denmark2094 Posts

March 08 2011 22:03 GMT

#2637

and no one here saw the football match between ukranian shaktar donetsk and Rome lol. Well th ukranians won 3-0

fbs

United Kingdom2476 Posts

March 08 2011 22:07 GMT

#2638

urgh Arsenal should have done the business against Shaktar and they would have been stomping Roma with their second team tonight

Got themselves to blame for that

Ayush_SCtoss

India3050 Posts

March 08 2011 22:08 GMT

#2639

Overall, I am disappointed today...not by our loss...but the ref just totally dampened my night..
And I don't care about the stats...we could have won even with 0 attempts at goal. It isn't like Inter did any better..

samaNo4

Spain245 Posts

March 08 2011 22:14 GMT

#2640

If the referee had acted correctly, RVP would have been out in the first half for slapping Alves in the face and Barça would have had a death penalty to convert. I really can't see why everybody is whinning here.