Salomon Kalou has pinpointed Barcelona's defence as a weakness that Chelsea can target and expects them to defeat the European champions in their Champions League semi-final. (Source: The Daily Telegraph) You've got to actually get the ball off them first, you muppet! Anyone else expecting Chelsea to get utterly humiliated?
If Barcelona end up picking Mascherano as a centre-back again, then he might have a point. It's not the strongest area of their team, by any means, but as you point out HIAG, it's far easier to talk about it than it is to do anything to prove it. Having a slightly suspect defence is irrelevant if the other side never test it.
compared to their attacking prowess he is probably correct..however that is clutching at straws...and there defence doesnt need to be that strong since the oppo rarely have the ball..once again..clutching a. as for humiliated i think it is quite possible since they will be on a downer from their previous match.
From recent games, I would have to say that in many other teams Puyol would be struggling and as you say PNP, Mascherano at CB isn't ideal. But this is not any 'other team' and to make public comments about possible weaknesses in defence is hardly a sensible tactic to adopt. Personally hoping that Barca hit their richest ever vein of form in 10 days time!!
The first leg will be tight as per usual, and the Chavs will make much of that, just like the Goons did last year . They'll push for an away goal because thats all they need, then doss about for the rest of it, saving themselves for the training session in the Nou Camp.
It'll be like the Harlem Globe Trotters playing a local Brownies netball team! New ones will be ripped all over the park, I'm betting My mate isn't looking forward to it, one bit!
Barca don't have a strong defence in the normal sense but to them, their defence is the best in the world as whats that saying "attack is the best form of defence" and in barcas case they are proving it! If, Messi got injured and was out for 6 months, I would love to see how Barca would fair in the champions league.
Careful HIAG, last time you expected a rival to be humiliated it came back and smacked you in the face
You'll have to defend a lot better than you did on Wednesday or Barca will hand you your arses on a plate!
The ref can ruin a game of football, as can a plot loss from a player, so yes anything can happening, but you'll have to put up with the piss taking till then.
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I can. Barca have handed out footballing lessons to both Arsenal and United, in recent years. Your squad is worse than either of those two were, when Barca humiliated them. I fear that English football is, once again, going to be put to the sword. It is going to be a black day, indeed. For all of us. Already, I feel soiled.
I think Barca will win, but I'm nowhere near as certain of it as many Any team with the calibre of players that Chelsea have, once they reach a semi-final have a fair shout of winning it. I hope they don't, but I'm not ruling it out.
Sorry, but if you truly believe that you have any where near the strength of squad or confidence that you had back in 2009, then you are more deluded than the most deluded of Mousers. And, believe me, that is very deluded. You are going to get smashed, and you know it.
HIAG, I know my own team better than you do. We have more players who can play football than we did in 09, we have hungry players i.e. Lamps, JT, Drogba. If you seriously think we're going to get smashed, you are letting your hatred for Chelsea get in the way of common sense. We're in the Semi finals of the biggest club competition on earth, that's the final 4 teams - the best teams in Europe in effect. You seriously think they're just going to turn up and win? No.
