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Don't think anyone said that for the Napoli game.. We were deserved winners in the end. Nobody can argue with a 4-1 win But for the benfica games..... We did get some luck. JT's handball should have been a penalty. But benfica were crap in both legs in terms of creating actual clear cut chances. They were dominant for about 15 minutes at the start of the 2nd half in the 1st leg and made Cech produce 4 or 5 great saves, but other than that they were simply average. Yesterday it was a bad performance by us considering it was 11 v 10 and benfica were running rings around us at times and had us on the back foot but they were average. It's just that we were horrible. At the end of the day, benfica have nobody but themselves to blame. Maxi shouldn't have opened his big fat mouth to complain to the ref, and the challenge on mikel definitely deserved a yellow. The penalty was obvious as well. After the game i felt a little... Meh because they were clearly better than us yesterday. But now.. Don't feel sorry for them at all, they were diving all over the place - in both legs. Pathetic.

Haven't seen the replay of the incident but I think if he had let it run, Mata would have been able to shoot

I can't remember them all, have to see it again but off the top of my head... 1) the pathetic header which he should either have not gone for at all, or done something else with it rather than head it 200 yards away from the goal and 2) the one where he took the ball off Mata's feet and shot wide (Juan should have slapped him for doing that) there were a couple more too

I think the entire team is to blame for that goal. They were so complacent! Nobody was marking the Benfica players at all. Shameful, shameful defending. They should be fined for that. Regarding Cech... other teams are clearly noticing that he comes too far out sometimes. They tried to chip him two or three times yesterday. The first one (by Cardozo I think) was really well hit and on another day it would have gone in.

Was just browsing through my facebook and came across this douchebag who was my classmate a while back.. I wasn't close to him but I thought he was a legit Chels supporter............... and now he 'supports' Liverpool. Saw someone post on his wall asking him why he changed allegiances and he replied: "Chelsea play boring football" Unfriended him immediately

I think we can forget about seeing him at all. He seems to be training all the time so something must be going on behind the scenes.... incometax suggested in Romeu's player profile thread that Barca want him back and he wants to go back so we're not using him at all

Cech Ferreira - Luiz - Cahill - Bertrand Essien - Mikel Sturridge - Meireles - Malouda Drogba Seriously. We aren't getting 4th. With the fixture schedule the way it is, having to play Arsenal immediately after the Barcelona 1st leg.... no way imo we can get the results we need to get there. Focus on FA Cup and CL

Welcome Stick around!

Yes Mata lost the ball but there were 4 or 5 times when he passed and Torres or Kalou had made totally useless runs or not made any runs at all. Mata is always trying to make the difficult pass, through defenders etc where for the pass to be successful, the receiver has to be on the same wavelength and use his fucking brain to know what Mata is trying to do. Oh, one of the players we're talking about here is Kalou! And Torres was hopeless today too. Kalou makes simple passes and fucks it up. He tries stepovers which make me laugh, ends up giving the ball away most of the time. He just has no footballing brain and doesn't know wtf to do. For example, the cross from Mata (I believe) where even though it wasn't meant for him, he jumped anyway and headed it like 200000 yards away from the goal. 1) he didn't know that he should have left it due to this position (!!!!!!!!!) 2) he didn't realize that DUE TO HIS POSITION, there was no fucking way he could score with that kind of header and hence should have tried something else like a flick or try to bring it down (can't remember if this would have been possible) :lol: Love the random "BYE BYE BENFICA" in English at the end there

Why are you benfica fans (who have nothing useful to discuss) even here? Just go back to your own forums.

Football isn't fair Doesn't excuse the rude comments you and some of the others are making

LOL as if we give a RATS ASS about what you bet. Fuck off.

He also fucks up 4 out of every 5 passes. Most of them simple passes to mata/torres due to his lack of ability. At least with the other players even if theyre not performing well at the time, you've seen some type of above average quality in their play.

Now youre a proper fan. Well played, you guys deserved to go through based on overall performance but football doesn't work that way. But your team performed admirably. The very best of luck to you and your team.

Oh boo hoo. The referee did favor us but this was nothing compared to that barca game. You only have your players to blame for being so brainless to give away a clear penalty and red card. Who asked maxi to open his big fat mouth and complain during the penalty? Go back to your forum if you have nothing useful to say. We're not invading your forum to gloat about our victory. Let us celebrate. Good luck for the future.

Kalou was especially hopeless today. I really don't understand how he even became a professional footballer. So brainless. Work rate is fine blah blah but footballing wise he is dreadful

Fuck yeah! Raul's goal was class. So happy he scored! Love the shhh sign to the benfica supporters too lol

Don't get me wrong - DELIGHTED that we're in the semis but that was really, really, really bad.

What an absolutely atrocious performance. JFC.

Performance has been dreadful so far. Can't get complacent. 1 goal changes EVERYTHING. Gives them momentum and makes us nervy. Need to get another goal.

lol. I actually crumbled to the ground when he slipped. I was already jumping up and down when he stepped up thinking there's no way he's not gonna score. and then when Anelka was standing there I knew he was going to miss so I had my finger on the "off" button on the remote and turned it off immediately afterwards to this day still haven't seen any of Utd's celebrations

Which brand & model is that? Might check it out. I need a new set

I was so bloody nervous that I watched the last 5 minutes of that game in slow-motion LOL I slowed down my broadcast on the telly every time Barca had the ball in our half. Paused it for about a minute when Messi passed to Iniesta because I couldn't bear finding out what would happen. Then I played it

Same as Layla - I've got 2 accounts on this site. My current one is #3660 and my original one is #29!

Truly impossible to choose but I went for my original pick, LDN Blue Anyone would be a worthy winner though!