Barcelona vs Chelsea Highlights : UEFA Champions League SemiFinals

Posted on April 28, 2009
Filed Under Barcelona, Chelsea

A disciplined Chelsea defense earned them a precious goalless draw against Barcelona to make them slight favorites to reach their second successive Champions League final.

Coach Guus Hiddink’s pre-match prediction that the first leg of this semi-final tie would be saturated in goals proved incorrect as Chelsea changed gears into a highly competent defensive shift.

Hiddink’s tactic of giving holding roles to both John Obi Mikel and Michael Ballack worked superbly and Lionel Messi was marked out of the tie by Jose Bosingwa.

Barca’s strike trio of Samuel Eto’o, Messi and Thierry Henry have scored 90 goals between them in all competitions so far this season.

But Henry proved to be Barca’s real threat when he twice forced Petr Cech into important saves in the opening half.

However, to a man, Chelsea were defiant and disciplined with full-backs Branislav Ivanovic and Bosingwa absolutely faultless while John Terry and Alex were solid as a rock.

Hiddink will be more than pleased with the result and Chelsea should have enough in their artillery to go on and finish the job in the return match next week.

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2 Responses to “Barcelona vs Chelsea Highlights : UEFA Champions League SemiFinals”

tapfuma on April 28th, 2009 6:21 pm

go chelsea , barcelona is in trouble !
Jeqq on April 28th, 2009 11:21 pm

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