CL | 1/8 Finals: FC Barcelona - Chelsea 4-1 agg.

[JerseyAddict]

Rakitić did what h was told. Defence.

 

[jairzinho]

Haha. The salt is amazing. Chelsea are ridiculously intelligent, just like every premier League team. It is due to Barcelona's stupidity and lack of courage and philosophy that they struggle tonight.

Chelsea are simply too good for Barcelona. A 1-0 defeat would be a ridiculously amazing result for Barcelona. You should be pleased that Barcelona's lack of intelligence is only resulting in them being 1 down.

The Premier League is THE BEST league in europe.

You only care about physicality and muscles, which sure, Barcelona are much better at. But it takes more than physicality and pure muscle to win a match, as we are seeing tonight.

 

[raskolnikov]

Resultwise its decent but we have been very lucky. We deserved to lose this match clearly. We got exposed tactically for our messidependencia. We need a proper replacement for Xavi since it never halpened.

 

[ThwiX]

Very lucky with the result.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

How the **** we drew that game? Awful awful performance. Chelsea owned us and deserved better result.

 

[Barcaman]

Poor display, good result.

Hope Valverde doesn't sweep problems under the carpet because this was a poor display from Barca and disappointing to watch.

 

[Vilarrubi]

What a result!!! Average performance but down to Chelsea’s good defence

 

[JamDav1982]

Terrible performance.

Looked one paced, lacked movement and variety.

 

[SeloBarca]

Got away BIG time.
Better result than 0-0

Horrible midfield except Iniesta.

 

[Raki13]

Another terrible performance , other than a stroke of magic from Iniesta and Messi we created nothing. No chance we are winning the CL this year.

 

[jairzinho]

Disappointing performance.

We're sooo slow in defense and attack.

LOL at Valverde brining in Gomes.

 

[serghei]

First. Let's calm down. Chelsea didn't own us at all. They had 3 long range shots and nothing else. The problem is that we created only 2-3 chances the whole game with 70%+ possession. Which means that there is no progression. The ball just moves around with no clear plan.

A big minus for how we defended that setpiece. Amateur hour there. All players camped in the box and no one guarding the free man on the 20m.

Valverde needs to wake the fuck up because in CL if you don't risk, you don't win. We are not Chelsea or some Italian team.

 

[tacticvarium]

This was far from average.
It was horrible.

 

[Ritchie]

Not good enough. Only really created that one chance the only sight of goal Messi got as he had half their team on him all game as there was nobody else to worry about. The other chance was Messi setting up utter waste of space Paulinho.

They'll probably score at ours so any win will put us through.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

It’s hardly a surprise. There’s no pace in the side. All a bunch of old men strolling around the middle.

If Valverde wants to persist with this poor formation, he needs to integrate Semedo and move Roberto forward, probably in place of Paulinho.

Dembele is needed for pace too.

I agree with this. We need more pace. Our roster is full of snails right now, just not fast enough..