Quote Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico View Post
Barcelona at home disagrees with that though.

I don't blame Kos for the penalty too much. The challenge was very instinctive and not one of his previous moronic challenges where's he had time to weigh up the options (see Villa at home last year). The majority of blame lies with Flamini and Santi (I believe?) for letting Hazard easily skip pass them at that pace and manage a run on Kos in the box. Bundle him over and take the FK but you don't let a player with the skill of Hazard having a free run on our CB's in the area.

Also. Szechesny got done very easily for the penalty itself. When was the last time he saved a penalty or won us a game the same way De Gea did for United over the weekend?

The second goal on the other hand ....... that was one which should have been handled. No way should our CB's be allowing a long ball over the top to result in a goal. Though mind you the deliverer was Cesc and the receipant was Costa, two world class players and difficult for any defence to deal with. All in all though, I thought our defence played alright, better than most games this season and wasn't the reason why we lost that match.
The 2nd goal looked avoidable to me. Koscielny looked like he was about to control the ball but his misjudged it and in the process let Costa run free.

The first goal was simple unacceptable. Why play 3 in the middile if they are gonna let Hazard run stright at the CBs? Cazorla just basically escorted him to our pel area.

That Wilshere chance where he miscontroled it could have been a game turner but in the end, they were better and worked harder, esp in defence.