draw result against ARSENAL in their 1º leg CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Q/Final clash. The English team will be happy as they go home with a
valuable away goal & prepare to host the Spanish Club with the home
ground advantage & with their crowd cheering them on.
Villareal started great as they pushed the ball well finding spaces
while Arsenal was still getting their act together. You can say that it took
the whole 1ºst half for the English team to finally tune up & begin finding
their game.
During that process, Villareal Captain & Spanish International MARCOS
SENNA surprised everyone - Arsenal´s Spanish goalie Almunia included -
with an outside the square power drive that found the back of the net.
It was the games first goal & it put Villareal infront in the 9th min.
From here the Spaniards attacked but could´nt exploit their advantage
further even though Arsenal keeper Almunia was substituted due to
injury.
The 2ºhalf saw the "Arsenal machine" get its game together as they
were firing on all pistons. Spanish International Cesc Fabregas was directing
play & his team-mates finding the spaces. In one of those waves of
continual attacks in the 69th min , Cesc chipped over to ADEBAYOR who
connected with a spectacular overhead that steered the ball into the back of
the net. The stadium was silenced as it was quick & deadly & fair reward for
the excellent attacking play that Arsenal had offered from the start of the
2ºnd half.
The goal got Villareal out of the spell & they reacted to attempt to force
another goal & thus be able to go to London with some advantage. Their
attempts to exploit the Arsenal wings showed how much they missed Spanish
International Santiago Cazorla who fractured his leg last Sunday. Villareal
lacked a natural & specialist winger with Cani, Pires nor Mati being able to do
the job as they have a natural tendency to drift into the center, thus eliminating
the objective of exploiting Arsenal through the sides. Villareal tried hard & in
the end had chances, but Arsenal had done their job.
It´s not all over for Villareal who are still in there with a good chance,however
Arsenal have the advantage & at their home ground with their fans roaring
them on they will be hard to defeat. Tweet
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