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Champions League 11/12

lorddulaarsenal

Di Matteo has them paying deeper defensively. Not a game for gervais next Saturday

Pepe LeFrits

Lagos wrote:
Pepe LeFrits wrote:
And if not, well it might only be a total disaster for us!

well we've had 34 games to sort our shit out and 4 more

I don't think that'll be much consolation.

speedy

Patters wrote:
Fabregas was awful. Missed 2 great chances.

Yep, so much for his pre game "ive improved so much at barca" comments.

Chelsea just let them out wide and they had nobody to cross to. If Torres starts Verms will get forward and score. If they start Drogba we'll need to keep Kos and Verms back.

Captain

Mata was so lost out there and that sums up what Chelsea came to do. I'm fairly confident Barca will put 3 or 4 past them next week.

Tactics

Captain wrote:
Mata was so lost out there and that sums up what Chelsea came to do. I'm fairly confident Barca will put 3 or 4 past them next week.

Barca's record against Chelsea(since the Russian took over) at the Camp Nou is poor, I think they've only won once(2-1) and drawn the rest.

I fancy Chelsea to get atleast 1 100% chance(Chelsea always take them in these sort of matches, we know all about that as Arsenal fans).

Barca are in trouble in my opinion.

Captain

This is Guardiola's Barcelona.

Tactics

Guardiola's Barca only managed a single goal against Chelsea in 180 minutes of football in 2009. And the goal was in injury time.

Captain

We'll see in a weeks time, no point discussing phantom scenarios now.

Tactics

By the way, I hope Barca batter them, I'll be disgusted to see Cashley or a Mourinho team lift the trophy.

Qwiss

I'd rather see Mourinho lift it than Cesc, Xavi, Alves, Busquests and co.

IBL

Best case scenario is that Bayern win it, then Real.

Really despise Barca and not much love for Chelsea either. Di Matteo has got their defensive game sorted and they were really putting in a shift out there today, however Barca on another day would have scored a couple of goals with the chances they made.

SimplyThePest

Yep, for all the plaudits the desperate English press will give Chelsea, they could easily have been hammered. They are set up well to give Barcelona problems though, that type of game suits their players to a tee. I'd still back Barcelona to roll them in Spain.

flobaba

IBL wrote:
Best case scenario is that Bayern win it, then Real.

Really despise Barca and not much love for Chelsea either. Di Matteo has got their defensive game sorted and they were really putting in a shift out there today, however Barca on another day would have scored a couple of goals with the chances they made.

We couldn't defend like that if Arsene's mum's life depended on it. Excellent rearguard performance from Chelsea. Kept Messi anonymous all game, and once the Argentine midget is contained, so is the rest of the supporting cast from Catalanland.

Burnwinter

Would rather Chelsea won than Barcelona at this point. It'd be quite gratifying if Barca didn't win either La Liga or the CL.

However I hope the tournament is won from the other half of the draw for sure.

Biggus

Lagos wrote:
Pepe LeFrits wrote:
And if not, well it might only be a total disaster for us!

well we've had 15 years to sort our shit out

Fixed. 😉

Rex

Biggus wrote:
qs! wrote:
Barca would be as frustrating and poor as us if they didn't have Messi

Agreed & Agreed.

There is not a single player in our entire squad that would certainly be a starter at Barcelona. Personally I´d have Sagna and Kos over Alves and Puyol, but I am sure I´d be in the minority even with that.

The truth is that even if you take Messi out of the equation they are still on a whole other level than us.

Captain

Aye, all sorts of madness being written in light of last night (in the football press as well). Barcelona are the single best team on the planet; without Messi they are just a bit closer in class to no.2.

Timbob

Some absolute tosh on the last couple of pages. Take messi out and they're still the best team in the world. It'd leave them with the same group of payers that won the bloody european championships and world cup.

Chelsea got lucky last night. 1-4 would have been a fair result. They'll have to ride their luck even more next week to qualify.

Rex

This Barcelona team has won 13 of the last 16 competitions they have participated in.

That must be all Messi though. 🙂

Rex

The result yesterday is still a worry for Barcelona. Chelsea could still score a goal at Camp Nou, and that would mean Barcelona would have to score 3. Not sure they can.

The result yesterday also means that Chelsea are still only a goal away from qualifying even at 2 - 0 down. Barcelona really needed that away goal for a bit of comfort.

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