Pressure? There is no pressure in football.

By: Javier | April 14th, 2009

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Obviously Jose was never in our position.

I can say this much. If we play like how we’ve been playing in La Liga we are absolutely fucked. Losing the last game at home was inexcusable.

Villarreal Málaga
Shots (on Goal) 20(6) 8(2)

I always thought stats don’t say everything about the game, and that shows as proof right here. You figure with 6 shots on goal with a caliber like Villarreal we’d score. Nope. We got robbed with awful set plays and too many close calls. That doesn’t win a match and the Villarreral squad has to recognize that. Hell not even the team, Pellegrini has to realize that. I think all of us were a bit cocky (or maybe it was just me and Pellegrini) going into the 2nd half of La Liga and the Champions League. Well, now its coming back to bite us.

Valencia won their game last weekend and are above us in the Champions League qualifiers. Perfect. If that isn’t motivation then I don’t know what is. We have to show EVERYONE that we belong at the Champions League. If we keep on playing the way we are then we’re going to be nothing but flukes. I for one will not stand for that shit. Seeing this club play on their prime is amazing and some beautiful football is made.
Granted our luck always ends up sucking. With injuries and inconsistency we end up looking like a mid table team like Espanyol. Er, last year Espanyol.

Injuries and all of that lovely stuff
Senna, Cazorla are both out for tomorrow. Cani and Fernandez are back though, and hopefully will bring a positive vibe to the team on the pitch.
As for Arsenal. Almunia, Djourou and Gallas are all out for injury. Not good for either of the sides.

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Main difference though. Wenger has been pressing the boys about winning and how important this is for them. Now I don’t know if this means that Wenger has been taking it easy on us, but we can’t afford to play mind games here. Nice and simple, press, defend, score, defend.

Today’s match would of been completely different for Pool and Chelsea if defense was up. 4-4? Yeah, it was an amazing game (I screamed acouple of times for the goals), but that just shows weakness in the line of defense for the squad. Liverpool’s keeper og was just sad as much as I love the Spainard.

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