UEFA Champions League 20/02 Chelsea vs Barcelona, Bayern Munich vs Besiktas

wd done dolph

Also backed a Red & Pen @9/1 with Fred & a Besiktas Sending Off @11/2 for a few pennies just in case the likes of Robben, Pepe etc go ugly early.

Looking good, dolph.

Sportsbook boosted it to 13/2 after i posted... office junior must've been had a few pints at lunch

Muller's wayward shot nearly take his teammate's head off.

tippy tappy city sh1tty


thank god for wigan

chelsea now doing the same .....boring boring football

Tersteggen is a decent keeper.

Bayern player hacked down just outside the box

oi oi someone had a shot ,....zzzzzzz

where's my pen ?  c'mon lads.

1-0 bayern

Willian hammering the woodwork

Chelsea should be ahead .Barca been poor.

chels -1,pennies

Bayern don't look great, tbh.

willian,what a striker of the ball he is

Did Iniesta touch the ball there in the first half ? Get him off

Barcelona will get a rollicking at half time , this was the same kind of 1st half performance in Madrid ,second half they came out to win 3-0 , if they do not improve think Chelsea will win

Besiktas have been excellent, should have been 0-1 up too

layed 0-0 at the bridge at 12.0

Currently crapping myself here....oh dear

somebody f'in score come on

what was the Besiktas guy sent off for ?

clear scoring opportunity

fella on talk sport says chelsea havent been dangerous.
hit the post twice..ok mate

Bayern hit the post good effort from the free kick.

2-0 bayern.

Chelsea v barca has 0-0 written all over it.

Besiktas taken off Love, a striker and put on Tosic a CH. No recognised striker now

Come on the draw.

Besiktas playing with Talisca up top on his own now

at last

RIP BARCA OF LONA

Ah, bolloks

Lovely play by Willian

what a goal from WIlliam

Feb 20, 2018 -- 9:05PM, Des Pond wrote:

Ah, bolloks

me 2, on the draw aswell

Barcelona have looked very ordinary tonight.

Barca couldn't score in a barrel of fannies

Wouldn't rule out a Barca equaliser, though.

sh1t game , possession can only guarentee a draw sooner or later you have got to shoot

Feb 20, 2018 -- 9:07PM, pauliow wrote:

Barca couldn't score in a barrel of fannies

BARCA AND BOB HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON!!

Willian deserved a goal, though.

3-0 munchen

3-0 Bayern.

Feb 20, 2018 -- 9:08PM, GRANTCKING wrote:

Feb 20, 2018 --  9:07PM, pauliow wrote:Barca couldn't score in a barrel of fannies BARCA AND BOB HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON!!

tbh this result is a total surprise, as I said pre match, have watched barcas last 3 games in la liga and they were absolutely dire each time

*isnt

Totally agree Grant.

one team knocking the ball about
all the possession they want
the other team scores a goal

this is not entertaining

Bayern AOHW @1.3 now. Besiktas playing 5 at back and inviting them on. Don't look solid either

yet again barca clueless and toothless away from home when the competition gets going for real

Feb 20, 2018 -- 9:11PM, irishone wrote:

one team knocking the ball aboutall the possession they wantthe other team scores a goalthis is not entertaining

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??? (gladiator)

barca clueless on a small pitch with a team parking the bus!

1-1

1-1

1-1

What an idiotic goal to concede from Chelsea's point of view.

messi breaks his chelsea/courtois duck

desy baby, its thai time!!

sloppppppppppppppppppppppy as ffffffffffffffff,bye bye chels

Who was that played the pass from Chelsea?

4-0 Bayern, let one in at the other end please.

Christienson

filth from rudiger

they done scoring here?

Rudiger was lucky to not get a red.

Conte weak there ..... should have broken the game up after the goal

Barcer players killing the game

I need it, grant, after Saturday.

5-0 Bayern

Drinkwater on the same pitch as messi and iniesta ...pmsl

barca an absolute filth team,every little trick,diving moaning rolling about with no contact,just filth

Yep....

Ref aint helpdd

Feb 20, 2018 -- 9:32PM, Des Pond wrote:

I need it, grant, after Saturday.

Chelsea played to a good plan tbh, just 1 stupid error has cost them badly.

Got some more on the outright at 7.4, after Chelsea goal. So, good night in the end.

wd des

Cheers, Rommel.

after that tonight,theyre a super team but its really offputting all the scamming they do jeezus

Feb 20, 2018 -- 7:48PM, GRANTCKING wrote:

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You on a roll, grant.

TOP BOMBIN GRANT

yep would have pretty much 50/50 at 1-0 now more like 80/20. costly to say the least

Abberdonia strikes again

Chelsea has 1-1 written all over it, in my humble.

Trilby called it, too.

Barca are a shadow of their great side aren't they, never looked like scoring until they were gifted the goal, they don't suffocate teams at the higher level the way they used to, can't move the ball anywhere quick enough.......la liga must be sh1te.

Best away leg result barca have had for years. Judge them after the home leg.

It's because the players meant to do that aren't implemented yet. Dembele's season has been ruined by injuries so he hasn't really got going at all, and Coutinho obviously can't play CL anyway, but they haven't really found the setup to get him in so far anyway. Valverde persists with this 4-4-2 with 4 CM's across the middle formation which I'm not a fan of tbh, but Barcelona are much more defensively sound than days of old, and rely on brilliance up top to break teams down. They actually had much more possession vs Chelsea than they typically get in La Liga these days, mainly because Chelsea mostly conceded giving up possession to them in the first place.

Ultimately they are still massively in the driving seat now anyway. Going to be very hard to get anything at the Nou Camp.

If the defender had cleared the ball upfield the possession loonies would have screamed "hoof".
Every week we see goals conceded in this way.

Not like Chelsea were playing a possession game though is it. They had 27% possession home to a Barcelona side that rarely enjoys possession like this anymore (they average 60.9% possession in La Liga). Plus it was just a badly executed pass, wasn't even under huge pressure iirc and the targets were pretty open too. Wasn't great from Azpilicueta either to sell himself the way he did.

there is another, more obvious reason for Barca's allegedly poor performance - the tiny pitch.

I've been to Stamford Bridge and I was shocked at how small the pitch was. Barca's game excels on bigger and wider pitches.
Lets wait for the Nou Camp leg before passing judgement, eh ?

Of course they are in a good position going into the 2nd leg but as said earlier they are nowhere near the side we saw a few years back, no shame there though as they were truly great.

I wouldn't rule Chelsea out, if they can be as organized at the back, the slower passing of this current Barca side will still find it hard to pull them about and the pace of the Chelsea counter will cause big problems.

I seem to remember Chelsea pulling this off against a better Barca side than this one.

Barca have lost one CL home tie since 2009, to Bayern Munich in 2013, and their record has been exemplary since then.

Yeah, bored me to tears last night though.

There's a lot of sense in being boring in the first, away leg of 180 minutes of football.

The point is that they were not trying to be boring, they play to the same style that they did in their pomp, trying to break sides down with the pass pass pass approach, the problem is for this to work you need to be able to do it quickly and drag sides out of position, this Barca side last night could not do that, until the mistake they never looked like scoring for one single moment, whilst Chelsea always looked dangerous on the counter, it will be exactly the same game in the Nou Camp although the bigger pitch will help Barca.

They'd be better sitting off Chelsea and inviting them onto them as Chelsea need a goal, but Barca will play their normal game and leave themselves open to the counter.

The point is Barca ended the game as clear favourites to qualify.

they did but needed a big helping hand to achieve it. didn't do much to suggest they won't get another hiding away from home against a better and more in form side than chelsea

The big helping hand was 73% possession.

well yeah that too. don't think they'll getting that much of the ball away from home again unless they get very lucky with the draw or play united