Thursday, April 26, 2012

Chelsea draw at Barca as they reach the final

Chelsea have overthrown Barcelona from the European throne. On Camp Nou both teams came and Barcelona was expecting to come back after the disappointing 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, but Chelsea didn’t come just to lose. The match started as expected and Barcelona dominated mostly but they were not efficient in the finishing part. Messi and Sanchez had good chances in the 4th and 19th minute but Cech and some luck saved Chelsea. In the 26th minute Chelsea had a good chance but Drogba couldn’t score from a very small angle. In the 35th minute Cuenca went fast into the box and sent a ground pass in front of the goal and Busquets was there to score. Barcelona equalized the average score and just two minutes after that John Terry received a red card. The defender hit with his knee Alexis Sanchez without ball, and even though the striker was not hit that severely Terry received a deserved red card and left his team with 10 people. In the 43 minute Messi possessed the ball and he made a through pass to Iniesta who scored for 2-0, so that Barca went in front on average. And just when everything was looking grim for Chelsea, Lampard made an amazing pass to Ramires who with an extraordinary lob shot he shot the ball over the goalkeeper and into the net for 2-1. The half time ended and Chelsea were in front because of the goal at Nou Camp. The second half began as a nightmare for Chelsea. In the 48th minute Fabregas was fouled by Drogba  in the box and penalty was awarded for Barcelona. The contact seemed very little or none but Messi prepared to score the penalty. However the top striker kicked the upper bar and missed it. Barcelona’s attack lacked ideas and in the 78th minute Busquets shot a desperate shot which passed well wide. In the 82nd minute Messi hit the post from a long shot but Cech seemed to cover his goal. While Barcelona were 10 man in attack Chelsea had a perfect chance to score. In the 1st minute of added time, a corner was cleared and the ball went to Torres who wasn’t offside because he received the ball before he reached the centre and was through. He passed through Valdez and scored against the clean goal. Barcelona were shocked and Chelsea won their way to the final in Munich on May 21st.

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