you mean like nani the other week against Liverpool? What a jessie. Anyway, not a draw either of us would want i guess but at least the semi for who makes it (with the 2nd game at home) looks a lot more inviting. Certainly we are both better off than spurs!! A real 50/50 draw though I fancy us to edge it just because it is all we really have left. Every weekend is like a cup final for you guys at the moment and it is telling with injuries etc.
Had the second leg been at SB, then I would go for Chelsea, but its at OT, so I fancy Man Utd. Its similar to Chelsea Liverpool, had Chelsea been at home second then they would have qualified(like they did once) but when away second its harder.
We actually knocked out liverpool twice (both times second leg at home) but i see your point. However, our record at old trafford is pretty good so im not particularly worried about that. Could toss a coin on it. It can be harder but it comes down to the away goals. When we knocked out arsenal in 04 we were level just after half time in the second leg with an away goal a piece. Arsenal shat themselves cos they knew another away goal would kill them off and they went to pieces. If we got say a 1-0 at the bridge, that would be very hard for you to turn around cos at OT, we get 1, you need 3 etc.
That's what he means - whenever Chelsea and Liverpool has met in the CL, the team playing the second leg at home has won (IIRC). It can be a pretty big advantage in Europe - one of the reasons Garcia's "ghost goal" in 2005 was given was the reaction from the Anfield crowd - had he done the same at SB it might not have been given. Either way, it's not a bad draw for either of us. We can both avoid the Spanish sides until the final, and I think whoever gets through will be reasonably confident of beating Inter / Schalke, neither of which have been hugely impressive this season.
We have won our last 3 Prem matches against Utd so why should we fear them,they are a good side but I bet the Utd fans are more worried about it than us.
Won your last 3 games but I dont think anybody thinks you deserved to win any. You played well second half of the most recent game but other than that its been pretty even and decided by shocking refs. Probably the toughest tie for both clubs this mind. I think we will win but chelsea will win at home.
They deserved to win at OT last season. We really froze that day and didn't get going till the second half. Even then it was all huff-and-puff rather than quality. We should have won at the Bridge though last season. We played well that day. As for our last encounter, a draw would've been a fair result, it was a perfect example of a game of 2 halves. With all that in mind, I think we're due a bit of luck against them. If I remember correctly, they've not beaten us without the aid of a contentious decision since May 2006, when Rooney broke his foot and they hammered us 3-0.
I think a draw would of been fair at OT last season, I think although we weren't very good chelsea were nothing special and last season at the bridge we really should of taken all the points as you say. this season a draw would of been fair.......but we should of had it under control at half time and given chelsea little to no chance of getting back into it. Over 2 legs and with last years disappointment and the fact that the chelsea strikers are dire this season we should win.
Chelsea were awful in that first half, the worst I've seen them against us since we beat them 3-0 in January '09. We should have put that one to bed.
yeah thats right, its always the ref that causes united to lose!! jesus wept. they are tight games and these will be no different. If one decision can be the difference then that merely illustrates this further.
I believe anelka has more champs leagues goals than any of your mob this season. And i think we've had a damn sight more disappointments than you lot in this comp!!
I dont think i know for a fact your talking utter full on unfiltered bullshit right there. More disappointments than us in the Champions League? Dear oh ****ing dear
Read the post again. I didn't say United only lost because of the ref. I just said Chelsea have had a bit of help along the way, which they have. There have been dodgy decisions in the last 3 games (Luiz's non-sending off, Terry's handball... Drogba's ridiculously offside goal... Rooney's incorrectly disallowed goal, Valencia should've had a pen, Fletcher didn't foul anybody for freekick which led to an offside Drogba dragging Wes Brown away from scorer John Terry), and your only other win in the last half-decade was in April 2008, when Carrick had the ball blasted at him from 6 yards, and despite keeping his hands down, somehow conceded a penalty.
