• 'With more effort we could have caused damage at the end' • Manuel Almunia replaced injured Szczesny in first half

The Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia has accused his team-mates of walking rather than running in their Champions League defeat by Barcelona.

"Even at 3-1 we only needed one goal and you can't understand how there can be players that were walking," said Almunia who came on in the first half of the last-16 tie when Wojciech Szczesny dislocated his finger at the Camp Nou. "With a bit more effort we could have caused them damage at the end.

"Barcelona bossed us and in the second half we had players that were not running. It seemed that everything was lost but you can score a goal at any moment.

"So the only explanation I have is that we were so tired and the players couldn't give any more. And being down to 10 men, well, it was double the effort." Almunia is Arsenal's only fit senior goalkeeper because Lukasz Fabianski is out for the season following shoulder surgery.