communicate

We are not even 4th and he has been really up and down this season

I would play kalou first because he is better defensively and better at counter attack but if barca score 2 goals , I will bring mata in

Because even Messi played bad game, he was still the most dangerous man on the pitch in both games. Yes even in el classico. I saw him made a run and the whole defense move to the left giving xavi whole space for himself. He is the only person who is capable of opening our defense, he ran at our defense make our defense have to scramble, collapsing and he attract not 1 not 2 but 6 players when he made his run.

It is significant because you will give more space for the ball to go through. Imo In order for us to go through two things must happen, barca must be as wasteful as they did against us and Madrid and we must take our chances.

I agree he is young man with good potential, but is he good enough right now to be a full time starter in a team that is trying to win championship

It's simple. He is not good enough. I never think he is good enough but AVB has to play him because he is our future.

I don't think playing like what real did is a good idea. Real has a very good attacking lineup whereas ours is very poor. We should play similar to 1st leg defend and long ball to drogba.

Without Abidal and Pique Barcelona really struggle with ball in the air and that's their biggest problem and these couple of days they have been very wasteful

Especially in nou camp where the pitch is realy big, they will try to stretch our defense even more. They will create chances against us and hopefully they are as wasteful as they did against us and Madrid.

I don't think drogba is comfortable playing that deep and also if you watched in the 1st leg, the reason why we can stop them from penetrating our def is because we play 3 dm, taking out one dm and putting a striker instead will be dangerous. Yes with 2 striker we will be more dangerous in counter but we will be very leaky at the back.

True, but he dived and wasted time too many times in that game. I am a chelsea fan but I am also a football fan. Watching us defend tirelessly was beautiful but watching Drogba dived really bothered me.

It was good for our team but honestly I hate it. He clearly faked injury so many times in that game and it really bothered me.

My only concern about drogba is that a 33 year old striker should not be our main striker, he should be just a squad player. Torres should be our main striker, drogba as backup and lukaku as prospect. But this season show that that is not the case. I am not sure who is our main striker and lukaku does not play enough game

He actually played ok. I am actually scared whenever messi get the ball and start running you can see how's our defense collapse. 1 mistake from any defender can cost us a goal

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/146750.html I agree with RDM, our chance right now is still 50-50.

It will depend on the 2nd leg, if we go to final, the media will praise RDM, if we lose they will forget what happen tonight.

It'a perk of being messi

We have a very good chance to go through in the 2nd leg because unlike arsenal/Manu/Real Madrid we can park the bus for the whole 90 minutes. Our players is dreadful offensively, but in term of team defense we are still very strong and drogba can trouble any CB.

Good win, there is no motm for me, we defended well as a team. We semi man marked messi which has great effect, meireles I thought marked messi really2 well. Good win, they hit the post twice but now we have something to bring to camp nou = Park the BUS

I think it's more of 4-3-3 rather than 4-2-3-1

http://soccernet.esp...chelsea?cc=5901 http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/04/16/chelseas-change-in-defensive-system-under-roberto-di-matteo/ I think that sum up why we get better result under RDM

I think david luiz is our for both legs but I don't really agree with using david luiz against messi. David Luiz is quick and mobile but his challenge is very rash. Messi thrive against player like that, you need a smart player that know when to make a challenge to stop messi. Allesandro nesta showed that in quarter final, I thought he played messi really well even though he was beaten a couple times because he was not fast enough anymore.

A very even game, 2nd half Bayern took control and Mourinho had to response by bringing marcelo and granero to play more defensive. Btw Ronaldo was invicible, yes he made an assist but the credit should belong to benzema who made a good cross and had a very good game

When I saw atkinson as goal line ref, I just cannot stop smiling

In term of result Any result that allow us to go to nou camp and park the bus is a good result. Which mean any win or 0-0.