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Drogba miss out on the revenge? No way. He'll be on the field even if he had to be in a wheelchair!

The most epic celebration ever is when Drogba scored ( I think it was his second) goal against Wigan in the final game of the 2009-2010 season, when he and Malouda ran to the flag and acted like they were playing the guitar and drums

I think a win over arsenal can be very important for us to progress to CL final! The momentum we carried from the Tottenham game was the catalyst for the resul again Barcelona and a win against Arsenal could prove to be just the boost the players need to drive off the cheating catalans at camp poo.

Great, great result. But it is vital that the lads don't get complacent in the return leg.

Captain's goal

True. Don't remeber him making any trouble here though.

Actually, according to the reports, it was ribery who started it. Not that Robben is an angle or anything.

I'd like to see him even more out of position. In the stands to be precise.

Anyone heard about the Robben-Ribery after the Madrid game? According to some german paper, they beat each other up in the dressing room. Kinda stupid when you just won over Real madrid.

They will all most likely win this weekend. All relatively easy games.

Yes I know what you mean Tomo. I think the reason that all those names of managers of average teams are being thrown around is that we're running out of world class managers; we've already hired then fired almost every world class manager that would we could get our hands on!

Alan Curbishley is a great manger. I think he will be better than Moyes or Bielsa. Happy?

I'm sure you'll find something here:

Just for the record, the pitch at camp nou is hardly ana larger than Stamfprd bridge: Stamford Bridge: 103 x 67 metres Camp Nou: 105 × 68 meters

I think he only missed two mikey mouse cup games against fulham and everton at the start of the season. But I could be mistaken.

Speaking of Puyol, did anyone notice how he couldn't pick Drogba up whe he fell to the ground after 10mins or so?

Tbh, the ref was unfair to Barca in one occasion. During the celebrations for DD's goal, I took off my shirt. Clearly deserved a yellow card!

In my head it went like: Puyol: "John, my hand hurts, can you kiss-OooW!"

They still have Song, Ramsey, and Rosicky in the middle. Not to be taken lightly at all.

Well yes of course, but honestly we have a better chance with the in the CL. For fourth place, imo we need to get at least 13 points from 15 available and hope both Newcastle and Tottenham drop points. The CL is still very much in our hands, all we need is two more performances like yesterday. (easier said than done, I know) I think that is up to lamps and the manager to decide whether he can play that often. I think he can because unlike most, he didn't play too often at the start of the season and therefore is not as tired as everyone else. We really need him for those two matches, which is why I think he will pull through.

He made the save of the season yesterday from Puyol's header. I think his saves are very underrated beacause he makes it all look so easy! Post match interview:

^^ That is a good point. Yes we've had one strier, but we always had in everyone in the team (except mikel, of course ) and our midfield usually scores more than our forwards. In that sense, we have relied more on Lamps than drogba in the last decade.

Lamps and Mikel in the holding midfield roles have been the main reason for our recent good run of results. They must start imo. Essien and Romeu are too rusty to start a game like Arsenal, we mustn't forget that this match is potentially as important as the one against Barca.

If we get to the CL final we'll have a 50% chance of getting into the CL without getting fourth place.