Champions League Thread (the dawn of time - 2014)

[King Pietersen]

Bosingwa playing out of position vs Lionel Messi is going to be a treat. Not for Chelsea fans, but a treat for everyone else

 

[Jaztheman]

Of course, with Bosingwa against Messi, our fate is sealed.

EDIT: Same time, Dan.

 

[King Pietersen]

Great minds and all that shabang.

 

[PhilD123]

Barca being involved in the CL final would be a joke anyways. Like it was 1992 and 2006.

Somethings are better left un-explained.

Is it because they have a better team than Madrid?

 

[sledger]

Bosingwa playing out of position vs Lionel Messi is going to be a treat. Not for Chelsea fans, but a treat for everyone else

Apart from the foul in the first half he actually kept him pretty quiet.

 

[m_vaughan]

Is it because they have a better team than Madrid?

They obviously dont. But then they have Messi. But like Chelsea showed today, put him off the game, and Barca are pretty draw-able.

Good result at the Camp Nou though although would have liked to see a little more intent on attack. Asking for too much maybe, but I felt asleep in the second half, and that did not help.

Madrid cant play like this, we dont have enough physical players in the squad (the ones we have are either injured or suspended), so the trick on Saturday will be to outscore those dirty catalans.

 

[PhilD123]

Real Madrid 0-1 Liverpool
Liverpool 4-0 Real Madrid

Believe me, I take no pleasure from those results, quite the opposite, but they show the facts.

I'd like to know why you don't think they have ever deserved to be in the final. You can't just cop out by saying some things are better left unexplained. You and me both know that's an attempt at a cop out as you have no real reason.

 

[Jaztheman]

Awesome result for us, we have a chance of going through! Wouldn't of thought that at the start of the match as I was certain we were heading for a steady defeat. Credit to the lads though; job well done.

 

[Will_NA]

Credit to Chelsea, they did a near perfect European job on Barca. If they had scored, it would be the perfect result. Still hoping Barca get through.

 

[Cricketdude]

0-0 that is just an awesome result. :banana2

 

[m_vaughan]

Well I had fallen asleep for the second half, but from what I hear and read, Chelsea did a perfect job to nullify Barcelona's usual "pass after pass" game and also kept out Messi from skipping his way through. A lot of the sides in La Liga have also been doing this, but not for long enough. Also as mentioned before the physical strength offered by Chelsea's players make it a lot easier.

 

[PhilD123]

So why haven't Barca ever deserved to be in the final then?

 

[evertonfan]

Because they're dirty Catalans apparently. Unlucky though Vaughan, Barca are far more well respected across the globe than Madrid are. Joke club. Joke fans.

 

[PhilD123]

He's avoided/dodged the question 3 times now, I'm beginning to think he's not got a reason, but surely that can't be the case?:

Hopefully good atmosphere tonight, would like to see Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo all play but I don't see that happening. For some reason I think Tevez might play this one and Berbatov might be on the bench.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Well I didnt see the Barca-Chelsea match but heard Drogba had a good chance to score and before that Marquez also had a chance. But Barca were also denied a penalty when Bosingwa pulled Henry back, dunno that was a penalty but the news channels say it was..

Hoping the atmosphere is great and hoping to see some attacking football as we played against Spurs in second half. Could be thriller.