closed Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona

[Jase 43,479]

Haven't watched much of Barcelona this season but based on this game, how on earth have they lost only once all season? Unimaginative in possession, everything was going through Messi and so many aging as well as slow players in the side. Not beating them tonight is a big opportunity missed.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Man u all probably win tommrow so just us and Spurs in the balance.. Gotta keep it interesting some how.. Us London clubs! 

[Polo7 3,496]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

Haven't watched much of Barcelona this season but based on this game, how on earth have they lost only once all season? Unimaginative in possession, everything was going through Messi and so many aging as well as slow players in the side. Not beating them tonight is a big opportunity missed.

Because any opposition that isnt Real or Atletico is horse shit in Spain. 

[Pizy 18,368]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

Haven't watched much of Barcelona this season but based on this game, how on earth have they lost only once all season? Unimaginative in possession, everything was going through Messi and so many aging as well as slow players in the side. Not beating them tonight is a big opportunity missed.

Probably because, unlike us, everyone they play in La Liga other than Real Madrid and Atleti are scared shitless of them. They go behind and Barca just blow them away. We showed balls and character today and didn't let their best players take over the game.

[Cosmin 2,484]

Smh people are underestimating Chelsea's fantastic discipline so much. Barca are fantastic, but our players did great. 

[FabHazard 655]

Result felt like sucker punch...We deserved to win....Very costly mistake by christensen...Both rudiger and christensen did not deal the long ball properly..Cesc would have got that pass if he had pace

Camp nou is very difficult place with wide pitch..We cannot defend all the time there

[Polo7 3,496]

Just now, Cosmin said:

Smh people are underestimating Chelsea's fantastic discipline so much. Barca are fantastic, but our players did great. 

According to some people on here Barca were poor today and we should have done better. 

[communicate 2,703]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

Haven't watched much of Barcelona this season but based on this game, how on earth have they lost only once all season? Unimaginative in possession, everything was going through Messi and so many aging as well as slow players in the side. Not beating them tonight is a big opportunity missed.

I have said it multiple times before this game, this is not the same barca. I was shocked watching them against eibar n madrid. They looked so poor yet they won both games. Having said that, they have Coutinho  and Dembele on the bench. 

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

6 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Man u all probably win tommrow so just us and Spurs in the balance.. Gotta keep it interesting some how.. Us London clubs! 

That is not because spurs and us are from london but because we got decent opposition whilst the other english team drew some bunches of clowns that have no business playing cl

[communicate 2,703]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Probably because, unlike us, everyone they play in La Liga other than Real Madrid and Atleti are scared shitless of them. They go behind and Barca just blow them away. We showed balls and character today and didn't let their best players take over the game.

Nope, Eibar dominated them last week but one magic pass by Messi to Suarez. They were up 1-0

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

1 minute ago, communicate said:

I have said it multiple times before this game, this is not the same barca. I was shocked watching them against eibar n madrid. They looked so poor yet they won both games. Having said that, they have Coutinho  and Dembele on the bench. 

Coutinho is cup tied and there is a reason why they left dembe out - he is not up to speed like morata

[cfcs most wanted 657]

Why are people so disheartened, before this game I didn't even think that Chelsea could have gone through, we were by far the better team, making a team with Suarez, Messi, Iniesta look clueless in attack, all to play for at the Camp Nou really and I really think Chelsea will go through after seeing today's performance

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

2 minutes ago, !Hazard! said:

Let's be honest though, Barcelona were really poor. They're lucky they weren't playing Liverpool/Man City tonight or it could have been ugly.

They really were. They still got the quality to play it perfectly when it counts and they got the space but if we had been more attentative in that one situation where christensen makes that blunder adn also azpi goes to ground to early we would have won this game quite comfortably. If they repeat this performacne at City they will get hammered.

[communicate 2,703]

Just now, Magic Lamps said:

Coutinho is cup tied and there is a reason why they left dembe out - he is not up to speed like morata

Yea I know. I mentioned it more in general sense rather than UCL. They have two really good young player to replace their older guard

[The Chels 2,502]

3 minutes ago, cfcs most wanted said:

Why are people so disheartened, before this game I didn't even think that Chelsea could have gone through, we were by far the better team, making a team with Suarez, Messi, Iniesta look clueless in attack, all to play for at the Camp Nou really and I really think Chelsea will go through after seeing today's performance

It hurts more this way. Would've been easier to accept if we just got played off the park. Barca have been very fluky this season, can't see them winning it.

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

There is still a narrow chance we quality in the return leg via the away goals. that would be sweet albeit improbable. The thing is in the away leg we are the ones who have to score now so it will be really dangerous not to allow them too much space. However if Messi has a day off even worse than today or picks up an injury, we are favourites. They are an absolute shadow of their glory days, only that badly aged front 3 other than that Paulinho, Rakitic, Umtit, Aleix Vidal etc are no better than our very own Moses, Fabregas, Alonso horror show.There is no doubt our vintage sides would have wiped the floor with this lot but it might also be a valid point that we did not quite achieve the same as our similarly weak 2012 side managed against their vintage class of 2012

[Jase 43,479]

8 minutes ago, communicate said:

I have said it multiple times before this game, this is not the same barca. I was shocked watching them against eibar n madrid. They looked so poor yet they won both games. Having said that, they have Coutinho  and Dembele on the bench. 

That is true but even with them, still think Barcelona are average in general with their play. They are still relatively successful because they have Messi but their overall quality has dipped a lot since the Guardiola days.

[LAM09 6,744]

Why are people so disheartened, before this game I didn't even think that Chelsea could have gone through, we were by far the better team, making a team with Suarez, Messi, Iniesta look clueless in attack, all to play for at the Camp Nou really and I really think Chelsea will go through after seeing today's performance

It was the manner in which we drew. Dominated the game and should have won by a bigger margin, but it was undone by one moment of our own doing.

I certainly still have faith in getting a score draw