LeeDixon

Chelsea's reward for eliminating Benfica is a showdown with Barcelona, the best club team in the world. Barcelona deserve all the credit they get for the way they play, the spirit with which they play, how hard they all work in terms of tracking back and closing down and of course...for the sheer number of goals they score. But they're not invincible, no-one is. Two years ago Inter Milan frustrated them over two legs playing a typically Jose Mourinho-style of pragmatic football and this season several teams in La Liga have held them, especially away from the Nou Camp. And one area where Chelsea can get the better of them is in terms of physical battles. For all their speed, trickery and skill, Barca are a small side and the bigger, stronger, heavier players in Chelsea's ranks have...