Champions League Draw 20th March

[Rog]

dammit! my satnav's playing up, keeps telling me chelsea's 2 minutes from rome.........

the way chelsea played reminded me of the way Steaua Bucharest used to play. However, Barcelona did not live up to my expectations or the hype. For a widely touted creative team they struggled to break chelski down and did not impress me at all.....no where near as good as when they're playing the rest of the shite that is the spanish league apart from a couple of other teams. will be a better final than a utd /chelski one would have (probably) been.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

man u are on another level right now. that was my point.

thanks - i think!!

yes - the way we ripped the Gooners apart, play like that again, Barac won't stand a chance...

at least the final will be interesting,

Chelsea are a win (or not lose) at all cost team, and would have held out for the lottery of pens again in the final anyway. Chelsea lost because they played negatively in Barca, and at home only had 30% possession - it was inevitable at some point Barca would score, it just happened to be almost the last kick of the game...

forget the ref's decisions, Chelsea should and could have wrapped the game up themselves, the 'decisions' or not to award penalties is neither here nor there... Chelsea did not do a decent enough job over two legs, like they didn't do a decent enough job in last years final... had Barca not scored then they would have not have confronted the ref (i appreciate that had United lost then the decision to award Arsenal a pen and send Fletcher off would have caused upset at the Emirates - its the fact that Chelsea lost that upset them most...)

I'm glad they lost, as a United fan i'd rather be playing Barca (especially having watched them be stifled by Chelsea), but its likely to be a better and more exciting game...

And I hope Everton beat Chelsea in the FA Cup too...

[sanblaster]

My, you're a bunch of proper mouthy braggarts, aren't you?



Let us win an ugly game this season, ffs. Not all of them can be a show of skills and precision, can they? It was Chelsea who demeaned the game itself with two lines of 4 players, one metre behind the box, when Barça had the ball, all the time. Not to mention when we played with 10 and Drogba was changed for Belleti.


As long as it concerns me, to read all of you undermining Barça's game adds a little more pleasure to the fact we won at minute 183. Bring on Manchester Utd, who the hell cares if we need Touré playing as center back and Sylvinho as left back. I'm getting a bit tired of this season mumbling and rambling about the power of English footy. Where we you last july? How many players from the youth team play at Arsenal, Manchester, Liverpool and Chelsea? Because we usually play with 7 of them at the same time.


And I still am a tad angry I can't post big red and blue letters here anymore. Yannick do something.

[Rog]

Originally Posted by sanblaster

My, you're a bunch of proper mouthy braggarts, aren't you?

Let us win an ugly game this season, ffs. Not all of them can be a show of skills and precision, can they? It was Chelsea who demeaned the game itself with two lines of 4 players, one metre behind the box, when Barça had the ball, all the time. Not to mention when we played with 10 and Drogba was changed for Belleti.

Barca's so-called Skill and precision got you 1 shot on goal on wednesday and no goals the week before ....go figure

AND, we have already agreed about how negative chelski were....they've only themselves to blame for not going through. I also think a number of their players should be disciplined because of the after-match shenanigans. I still think the ref was shite though.

i don't think that qualifies us as mouthy braggarts just because we don't agree with you on how wonderful your team are..................

[sanblaster]

Originally Posted by Rog

Barca's so-called Skill and precision got you 1 shot on goal on wednesday and no goals the week before ....go figure

AND, we have already agreed about how negative chelski were....they've only themselves to blame for not going through. I also think a number of their players should be disciplined because of the after-match shenanigans. I still think the ref was shite though.

i don't think that qualifies us as mouthy braggarts just because we don't agree with you on how wonderful your team are..................

It's just the constant murmur I'm getting from everywhere (this thread included) in this country about how weak Barça looked in this round, and how that determines a final that is going to be easily won by Manchester United, implying that Barça's game shines in Spain because the rest of the teams in the domestic competition are shite. Whenever I hear such lack of respect towards Barcelona I interpret it as bragging. I'm really sorry about that.

I think Manchester is a superb squad, as it is Chelsea (no matter they play horrible, ultra defensive football - they are really good at it) and as it is Bayern Munchen. That only but adds to the merit of what Barça is doing this year, alive in three competitions in May.



By the way, http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3955/ballackhandball.gif

[Rog]

Barca DID NOT LOOK WEAK!!!!! they just had trouble breaking down chelski, that doesn't mean they are a weak team - i don't think they are. And as i said the Utd/Barca final should be a good one with 2 attacking teams.......and i don't think either team is gonna win easily. As for the weakness of the spanish league, you have to agree that aside from barca there isn't much else this season. Real and Villareal and athletico were just not up to scratch in the champions league.....that's what i base my opinion of the spanish league on THIS SEASON. I have not stated that Utd will win or that Barca will lose, as a neutral i hope its a good game. I hope that clarifies my position with you.

[sanblaster]

It indeed did, sire. It's just that I got a little touchy after reading all the posts in this thread and your comment about only scoring 1 goal in 180 minutes. Barça has scored 143 goals this season in 54 games! It came accross as a bit unfair because I've truly known for the last two seasons what is it like to play like shit and have a squad full of selfish vedettes :P

[jole]

These days its hard to brake any team that closes their lines especially if that team is chelsea since they have top quality players (which is the reason i dislike them so much). This wasnt a typical barcas performance, but to call them anything other then gr8 team is kinda ignorant concidering their stats this season. When arsenal or chelsea were wining premierships without a loss of game no1 said it was cause premiership was weak (except me lol).
I ll ask u this, how do u think manchester would look and play if vidic, ferdinand and rooney couldnt play against a team strong as chelsea, cause thats what barca was missing in puyol, marquez any henry.

[Jason Roth]

Barca will crush Man U. Because I said so. Sorry Matt.


edit: here are my terrible seats for the first semifinal leg @ camp nou

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38119841@N02/3512920413/

[Rog]

what's a vedette?