Photek wrote:Tomous wrote:Photek wrote:Tomous wrote:Thought Chelsea set themselves up well, and if not for one moment of madness from a defender would be going to the Nou Camp in a good position.
Barcelona did not impress me at all. I reckon Liverpool would run them ragged tbh, Chelsea unlucky to be drawing.
Didn't realize Sevilla appointed a New manager in December so they might be tougher for Manu than I would have thought.
I think you have to give Chelsea credit for that. Conte got his tactics spot on and they stifled Barcelona really well. However, you only have to make that one mistake and give them that one chance and they punish you.
It’s a bit of a missed opportunity to be honest, they could easily have scored another but were wasteful on the break. 2-0 to Nou Camp would have been huge but 1-1 puts the advantage firmly with barca.
Chelsea did get tactics spot on bar the wasteful breaks as you said. Although both Sid Lowe and Guillem Balague don't really rate Barca recently. They point to La Liga not being as strong as it has been.
But Valverde is a top 10 manager right?
Barca should have enough to go through in the second leg. They weren’t impressive, but even better Barca teams have struggled at Chelsea.
Having Paulinho just seemed pointless. Messi and Suarez were outnumbered at times with 7 or 8 defenders. They really need Dembele to start firing.
I do agree though Liverpool and City would counter at them with ease. But the downside of that is Messi and Suarez will have more space as Liverpool especially at Anfield wouldn’t have 10 men behind the ball constantly.
