829 MINUTES and counting

So this was it.........The final champions league game at highbury, and quite fitting it was.The final European game at Highbury was always going to be a special occasion and last night featured a pitch-invading squirrel, Spanish play-acting, a rare Kolo Toure strike, Gilberto Silva's inspirational display , The captains definitive cutbacks and the thrilling reality that Arsenal have taken a significant step towards the climax of the Champions League in Paris on May 17.Arsenal would have taken a 1-0 victory gladly before the match, but after the performance last night they would be ruing their chances and cursing their bad luck.Arsenal deservedly went ahead through KOLO toure[his first goal this season] after bombarding the visitors goal post for the first 40 minutes.We stamped our authority right from the beginning of this emotionally charged night, and ended the night with our noses in front but still left ruing our missed chances[and the referees incompetence].After seeing the first half you definitely expected more action, and much of it was on display albeit of a different kind.The fallacy with which villareal played the second half raises questions as to how they could make it so far.the visitors were more than happy to keep the margin of defeat small instea of taking the game to arsenal, and this is what might let their fans down. Whichever team u support, you would like to see the players take the game to the opposition, than being involved in play-acting.Much superior throught the game than the boorish villareal, we would have prefferd to take a much larger advantage to El Madrigal. But as TH14 said at the end of the game, its better to take a 1-0 lead away from home than 2-1.You can be sure of one thing though, they won't be playing as cynical at home.Hoping that the back 4 can go all the way to paris, that would be an awesome 10000 minutes of not conceding a goal.Until the next time then[to talk abt the last greatest primiership home game at highbury].
PS: It would just have been perfect if DB had prodded in TH crosspost header in the final minutes of the game.