Comments on: Henry: A Less Than Stellar Performance http://footiefool.com/2006/05/18/henry-a-less-than-stellar-performance/ Yet another football/soccer blog by yet another uninformed source Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:24:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Poplawski http://footiefool.com/2006/05/18/henry-a-less-than-stellar-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Michael Poplawski Sun, 21 May 2006 05:53:38 +0000 http://footiefool.com/2006/05/18/henry-a-less-than-stellar-performance/#comment-27 I was a little surprised about how bitter Henry was after the game, as I don't think it makes too much sense for him to complain about the officials. They were all right. Lehmann was beat in the 18th minute and committed a red-card foul. Arsenal was fortunate that they didn't have to play 70 minutes down 0:1 as an advantage could have been allowed to Barcelona on that play. In the end, Henry had his two chances, both very early in the game, and made a beautiful play on the free kick to set up Campbell (free kick set up by, you guessed it, an Arsenal player who apparently could teach Henry all about diving). Ronaldinho didn't do anything with his early set plays. The last 2/3 of the game, neither did much. They both played below their ability but also, the two teams knew who they didn't want beating them. It turned out Henrik Larsson was the man to beat a tired Arsenal team with their #2 goalie in net. One of the more interesting games I've seen. I was a little surprised about how bitter Henry was after the game, as I don’t think it makes too much sense for him to complain about the officials. They were all right. Lehmann was beat in the 18th minute and committed a red-card foul. Arsenal was fortunate that they didn’t have to play 70 minutes down 0:1 as an advantage could have been allowed to Barcelona on that play.

In the end, Henry had his two chances, both very early in the game, and made a beautiful play on the free kick to set up Campbell (free kick set up by, you guessed it, an Arsenal player who apparently could teach Henry all about diving). Ronaldinho didn’t do anything with his early set plays. The last 2/3 of the game, neither did much. They both played below their ability but also, the two teams knew who they didn’t want beating them. It turned out Henrik Larsson was the man to beat a tired Arsenal team with their #2 goalie in net.

One of the more interesting games I’ve seen.

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