‘When you give them a chance to play, then you’re dead’

ARSENAL midfielder Alex Song has conceded that Champions League opponents Barcelona can play football “from a different planet” — but insists the last 20 minutes of the game when the teams met at the Emirates last season has convinced Arsenal they can cause a shock tomorrow night.

Barcelona also fell behind at the Nou Camp before Lionel Messi’s master-class produced four goals to secure a 6-3 aggregate win. But Song, who played at the Emirates but missed the game in Spain, is adamant there will be no repeat this time around.

“It’s all about how we attack the match, and if we set about things in the right way, there are plenty of reasons for us to be confident,” he said. “We showed another side to Arsenal in the last 20 minutes of that game: we pressed them further up the field, we got tighter, showed more aggression, more desire and everyone saw what happened. We came right back into the match and we scored twice.