Chelsea were blessed by having that c*nt sent off. What the **** do Barca think they're doing playing without a proper striker?
ive given dogs of abuse to a mate who sadly supports chelsea over the years, but had to text him tonight to say "fair play, you deserved that". He's been a fan long before their 8 years of history. Good to see we still have true fans like 'col on here who follow football, and not all billynomates who cant see further than end of their keyboards
Well done Chelski..and to those slaggers tonight...KARMA...What goes around comes around. Good karma, our time will come. Although it appears to be a bad night...you can never be sure what other doors of opportunity opened tonight. ( Bloody Hell I am beginning to sound like Pat Morito in the Karate Kid)
I'm as patriotic as you like, followed England all over the world, and as I say, any other English team and I'd be delighted for them. I just can't be happy about Chelsea reaching the final.........in saying that, I'm more gutted about the Villa - Bolton result.
Even the longest serving Chelsea fan can't honestly think they "deserved" to win the tie?? They've spent 180 minutes with 11 (or 10) men camped on the edge of their box defending for their lives.
How is that any different to what QPR did against Chelsea (who had 9 men). I felt on the day QPR for the passion and endeavour they showed alone fully deserved the win. Defending is as much of an art as attacking. What Messi does comes naturally, he is just that good a footballer, defending and shape etc is something you have to work on in training week in week out. True Grit and determination for me beats pretty triangles in your own half every day of the week.
Funny that, cos watching Chelsea over the two legs felt much the same as watching Rangers winning against Arsenal and Tottenham. Did we deserve those wins? 'Course we did - as did Chelsea tonight. Personally I love to watch these David v Goliath type matches - especially when the underdog gets the result. Well done Chelsea, excellent lob Ramires - and as for Torres, well well! Just hope I can say the complete opposite at the Bridge on Sunday! (You'll have to forgive me. I try to avoid hate - it ****s our world up. Sorry and all that!)
The first leg was desperate stuff but you couldn't fault them tonight. They defended resolutely and Cech didn't have any brilliant saves to make. The penalty miss was the only bit of luck they got really.
What made it an impressive display was that Chelsea never looked that panicked in defense, even with one man less, and the 'best' team in the world trying to break them down. You looked harder to penetrate than a nun wearing trousers. Personally I think barcelona could have won it if they'd just run the ball into the area at speed. The ref had shown he would give penalties, and 50 minutes of direct tricky runs would have yielded at least a few wild challenges. Slow probing play let chelsea defend in an organised, considered way, and took Barcelona out of the game entirely.
