Rudiger was lucky to not get a red.

Barcer players killing the game

5-0 Bayern

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

Ref aint helpdd

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

wd des

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

You on a roll, grant.

TOP BOMBIN GRANT

Abberdonia strikes again

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, bored me to tears last night though.

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.

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

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