mmm i dont think so...barcelona was the only team with the ball, chelsea played an ultradefensive match, and you cannot not do that against barcelona, barcelona will score soon or later.zkreso wrote:Chelsea got cheated by the referee. If Barca plays the same way in the finals, it'll be a walkover for Man U
No you watched the same match as me mate!tettezak wrote:wtf... did I watch a different match or something?
Barcelona just sucked last night, didn't even come close to the potential CL winning team as we otherwise know them..
yeap...chelsea had more goal chances than barcelona...but let m tell something, the best way to keep your goal area safe is having ball possesion, i think that was chelsea failure. i don't want manchester winning againhotpace wrote:No you watched the same match as me mate!tettezak wrote:wtf... did I watch a different match or something?
Barcelona just sucked last night, didn't even come close to the potential CL winning team as we otherwise know them..
We watched Barca have ONE shot on target. Luckily for them it was the goal! We saw Samuel Eto do absolutely NOTHING for the second game in a row against Chelsea. We saw Lionel Messi do very, very little and not score in his TENTH game against English opposition. We saw their defensive skills which consisted of basically doing the goalkeepers job and using their hands to defend. We saw them score their first goal in FOUR matches against English opponents.
Yes they have a lot of possession and play lovely looking football yadda yadda yadda, but they simply cannot play any other way. And if you marshall their players then they basically just pass and pass and pass and go nowhere and do nothing. For all Barca's possession and prettyness Chelsea had the best clear cut chances, and Chelsea had more massive decisions go against them, simple as that.
As a Chelsea fan I know everyone hates us. You get used to that and I couldn't give a damn about it. I like it if anything. But it gets worrying when the officials don't like you neither because you may as well give up if they are going to make sure you never win things through stealth tactics!
Abidal should not have been sent off neither. Another pathetic decision!
This all sounds like cries of desperation to me... If Chelsea hadn't played such a cowardly game in Nou Camp maybe things would've changed... Hmmm or maybe Barca would've managed to score 2 or 3 goals against a team that actually likes to play football...hotpace wrote:No you watched the same match as me mate!tettezak wrote:wtf... did I watch a different match or something?
Barcelona just sucked last night, didn't even come close to the potential CL winning team as we otherwise know them..
We watched Barca have ONE shot on target. Luckily for them it was the goal! We saw Samuel Eto do absolutely NOTHING for the second game in a row against Chelsea. We saw Lionel Messi do very, very little and not score in his TENTH game against English opposition. We saw their defensive skills which consisted of basically doing the goalkeepers job and using their hands to defend. We saw them score their first goal in FOUR matches against English opponents.
Yes they have a lot of possession and play lovely looking football yadda yadda yadda, but they simply cannot play any other way. And if you marshall their players then they basically just pass and pass and pass and go nowhere and do nothing. For all Barca's possession and prettyness Chelsea had the best clear cut chances, and Chelsea had more massive decisions go against them, simple as that.
As a Chelsea fan I know everyone hates us. You get used to that and I couldn't give a damn about it. I like it if anything. But it gets worrying when the officials don't like you neither because you may as well give up if they are going to make sure you never win things through stealth tactics!
Abidal should not have been sent off neither. Another pathetic decision!
that is by far the worst thing i've ever heard.Catching The Waves wrote:The British football establishment praise the great World Cup and European Championship teams to the skies. Brazil, Argentina, France, Spain, Holland, etc. are held in the highest esteem. Yet, when it comes to playing football themselves, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (& even the Republic of Ireland) all pack their defences and play the tedious long ball game.
Hungary gave England a football lesson in the 1950s - and it still hasn't sunk in. Skill, technique, the ambition to score lots of goals, the willingness to take risks: it all goes missing during the big competitions. Far too many English Premiership teams play a negative, ugly game. Only Arsenal and Manchester United are willing to go for it like continental teams. Football is about fantasy and glory. Grinding out a 1-0 win can be fun every now and then, but as a weekly diet? Bleurgh.
As for the final? May the best team win.
