Barca rely on their possession and pressing. It pays off most of the time, but they occasionally get exposed by their lack of pace and numbers at the back. It happened at Chelsea, it happened last weekend, and it happened today.

You can't win everything ^^.

Ayush_SCtoss

India3051 Posts

April 24 2012 20:49 GMT

#6704

On April 25 2012 05:48 Telcontar wrote:
So which Chelsea players are out? Terry, Ramires, Meireles... am I missing anyone?

Ivanovic and Cahill (if still injured)

Stimp

South Africa780 Posts

April 24 2012 20:49 GMT

#6705

On April 25 2012 05:42 zf wrote:

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Look at it this way. There's no way Terry can lift the cup.

He would, just not in match gear. The whole squad gets medals, not just those who play in the final lol.

zanga

659 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6706

Barcelona plays home with support from 95000 barca fans.
Chelsea gets one man sent off around minute 35 (or something?).
10 vs. 11
Messi gets a penalty. Misses it.
Drogba and his fellow teammate works harder than any match ever before.

Barca had EVERYTHING on their side...... but still cant win. Sup sons?

CHELSEA DESERVED IT SO MUCH! Chelsea FIGHTiIIIIIIIIIIIIeng! Epic Finals vs Real? Which I'm sorry to say, "they cannot win", but yeah, as we saw today... anything can happen. I'm just really sad for terry and the others who arent allowed to play the finals...... f'd up....... :/

Anyways, GG.

HaXXspetten

Sweden15718 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6707

Although... if Real advances tomorrow, thus giving us a Real/Chelsea finals on the 19th of May, I'll be sad since I won't be interested at all in who wins or loses, but that solves my problem of having to take time off Diablo 3 right after its release to watch the finals... guess it's a win/win situation after all.

Go... someone! (Just not Chelsea T.T)

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6708

On April 25 2012 05:49 Ayush_SCtoss wrote:

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Ivanovic and Cahill (if still injured)

Ah, forgot Ivanovic. Chelsea are going to have a very hard time in the final.

Fatta

Germany148 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6709

On a side note: neither Chelsea nor Real nor Barca (does not matter any more either) have ever won in Munich. I think it's pretty clear who will win the CL this year.

Steveling

Greece10806 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6710

What I(and many others with me, I think) don't like about that win, is that they won in the manner that I would expect my local team Olympiakos to play against Barca.
They were inferior, they knew it, they decided to play defensively, and they somehow won. That's not what I expect from a big team. There's no pride in that.
But then again, you have Arsenal/Real trying to play ball and getting humiliated so can't really blame Chelsea for choosing that way.

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

April 24 2012 20:50 GMT

#6711

On April 25 2012 05:45 tuho12345 wrote:
lmao, Real probably can take down Munich tomorrow at their home easily. Free win for them over Chelsea and complete a double for this season. Not bad Real Madrid, at least after so long they finally manage to win something.

I'd say that Bayern has a better chance of beating Real than Chelsea had of beating Barcelona.

On topic, FUCK YEA CHELSEA! So glad to see them win and Barcelona not make it. Barcelona's played well and congrats to them for that, but I just do not want to see Spanish finals in European leagues.

Barcelona were a man up for 53 minutes and got a PK. There are no excuses. They did not play better. They did not deserve the win.

It doesn't matter if your local team would play the same way against Barcelona - there's a well-known way to beat possession football, and Chelsea executed it incredibly well. It is Barcelona's fault for being incredibly stagnant and trying to win by playing the exact same way that they played last week.

clusen

Germany8702 Posts

April 24 2012 20:51 GMT

#6712

On April 25 2012 05:50 Fatta wrote:
On a side note: neither Chelsea nor Real nor Barca (does not matter any more either) have ever won in Munich. I think it's pretty clear who will win the CL this year.

Nobody, if Bayern fails tomorrow?

231 Posts

April 24 2012 20:51 GMT

#6713

On April 25 2012 05:49 Stimp wrote:
He would, just not in match gear. The whole squad gets medals, not just those who play in the final lol.

Ugh. Does that mean he's going to lift it shirtless with his captain's armband? Maybe I'm not going to enjoy this result as much as I thought I would.

Stimp

South Africa780 Posts

April 24 2012 20:52 GMT

#6714

On April 25 2012 05:50 Stratos_speAr wrote:

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I'd say that Bayern has a better chance of beating Real than Chelsea had of beating Barcelona.

On topic, FUCK YEA CHELSEA! So glad to see them win and Barcelona not make it.

Spanish arrogance, like how barca was gonna demolish chelsea, twice.