CumbrianRam Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 ^^ True, to a point. The two meetings previous to this season were in 2009 - plenty of players on both sides are still around in the respective teams. Two meetings that Barcelona dodgily won on away goals. Even before that, back in 2007 many of the same players were playing. Again, two games, one Chelsea win, one draw. Either way, Chelsea have proven down the years that they're more than capable of producing teams that can stand up to Barcelona. Since 2005, Chelsea have won three, drawn five and lost two. It should hardly come as a surprise that Chelsea can today, like 3 years ago, five years ago, or seven years ago, produce a team that can stop Barcelona scoring more than them. Back in 05 they had Duff and Robben Joe Cole, Gudjohnsen, Gallas, Carvalho, Huth (HAHAHA!) Messi was only just coming through and only featured in meaningless games, they had Ronaldinho, Deco, Ett'o, van Bronckhorst, Guily etc The only surivors were Cech, Terry, Lampard, Valdes, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta in the starting 11s. Of course the managers and the Barcelona and Chelsea's style of play were also very different back then Chelsea were dominating the PL also and were the big spenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Players change, Managers change, systems change, tactics change - yet the results stay the same. 2005: Barcelona 2 Chelsea 1 Chelsea 4 Barcelona 2 2006: Chelsea 1 Barcelona 2 Barcelona 1 Chelsea 1 2007: Chelsea 1 Barcelona 0 Barcelona 2 Chelsea 2 2009: Barcelona 0 Chelsea 0 Chelsea 1 Barcelona 1 2012: Chelsea 1 Barcelona 0 Barcelona 2 Chelsea 2 Point is - it really shouldn't come as any great surprise that Chelsea are at least capable of causing Barcelona problems. Only a fool would be surprised by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbrianRam Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Its not a massive shock like Sky/BBC were making it out to be, the only proper shocks this were APOEL Nicosia and Montpellier in the French League. Chelsea have the resorces, Montpellier and APOEL don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 APOEL is a great story, it really is. It will be interesting to see how they do next season. Montpellier - great achievement! Unlucky PSG! Dortmund also, won the Bundesliga fairly comfortably - they'll be a real handful in Europe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastKentRam Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 On a funnier note, if you pause this video on about 2.04 you can see my mates brother running across the pitch. It's still my dream to get on the pitch when Derby score/win something and do a one man pitch invasion. Doing it at the Champions League final is different gravy though, well jelous. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VMvMgDeu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VMvMgDeu4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 The question is.......who would you rather be a fan of right now.........? Arsenal who have played beautiful football all season, and ended up 3rd and winning absolutley nothing at all.....OR Chelsea, finished 6th, with a completely different style of football, but with the European Cup tucked away in the trophy cabinet....? i know which one I would rather support...... Good on Di Matteo, fair play to them all, and well done to Roman for sticking his money into it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Its just good to see Man U potless this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramexpat Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 i wouldnt putting it past Abramovich to appoint someone else as manager even though Di Matteo has done a awesome job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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