Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona Drogba scored at the last min of the 1st half. HT now. Its going to be a interesting 2nd half.
alex sanchez is average (compared to the top teams) don't know why pep brought him in. David villa is so much better when hes fit.
They defended really well until the last 3-5 min. they looked scared. They did not give any of there players space. Pep needs to buy a winger FW with some long distance threat. Unlucky they didn't have David villa he could add a different dimension to the FWs. Drogba dived a lot this game. they were all hacking at him and playing rough so i can't blame his frustration.
I was thinking about that the other day when Barca was playing. I think rather than a winger they need a playmaker with a haymaker. Defenders usually pay no mind to players like Busquets or Xavi when they are a couple of yards away from the box.
yea barca really misses villa. near the end they had no real plan B when chelsea went into bunker mode.
Drogba, what a player. Great! Seems like he tried to make fun of Barca by grassrolling all of the time. Respect.
And Iniesta... Alves.... Sanchez... Pedro... Villa... etc etc. However, I think its only a natural reaction to all the teams that play very rough against them. Still hate them though.
You got to be kidding me. Sanchez, Iniesta, Pedro and Alves all love to grassroll. Especially Alves. He's like Drogba was this game every match. EDIT: Deleted my offensive comment.
There's a difference between diving and grassrolling. Do Barcelona players dive? Of course they do. Like olijolly said, it's a natural reaction to how physical other teams are with them. On the other hand, Busquets has no excuse for the way that he acts. And also, even if Alves were to be a "flaming homo" as you so eloquently put it, what's that have to do with him as a player?
Barcelona's going to handle business at Camp Nou just like they handled Arsenal last year. No question. Even KSY thinks so via Tweet. And I'm also tired of the homophobic, racist, and just the recurrence of offensive remarks thrown about by a handful in this forum and elsewhere. Anonymity brings out the thug in just about everyone and I was once an accomplice so not pointing fingers just saying... make a change / a positive one. I'd love to see Chelsea go through, but an FCB/RM final would be the most entertaining even with their league in dire financial straits. Can you believe Spain has a 20%+ unemployment rate? And US media were going berserk at hitting just double digits not too long ago! Bayern/Bundes is the most boring league for me out of the four bigs.
Yes, but now you're just being picky. They do both. It's not a natural reaction. How is diving a natural reaction exactly? It's a difference between being fouled because of physical play and diving when there's hardly any contact. What's so hard to understand? I was calling him that because hence he dives and grassrolls which directly affects what kind of player he is and how he plays. All of this happens on the field. He can play all dramatic on his freetime. My bad, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have wrote that. I'll stop expressing myself like that. I'd love it if Chelsea goes through. I understand what you're saying but El Clasicos are really getting tiresome. How many times did they meet last year? like 5 times? It's always the same story. Real great in the first 20 minutes with 2 almost goals, and in the second half Barca scores 2-3 goals.
I love how Barca nut riders claim Chelsea was playing "anti-fooball." The f are they supposed to do? Play open against one of the greatest club sides assembled and let Barca ram 20 goals into their net?
huh? that was a great counterattack display. they looked dangerous throughout even though they failed mostly in the final 3rd. no one should criticize a team that implements a viet cong game plan against Barca. its the only way. I wondered what it mustve been like to be Torres yesterday and basically playing (in his case watching) against the Spanish national team.