The first of two champions league semifinal matches was played yesterday between Barcelona and Chelsea, Chelsea achieved what very few teams have been able to do which is to hold the best team in Europe to a 0-0 draw. It has been a year since Barcelona have drawn 0=0 at home, the last time it happened was against Manchester United in the same stage of the championship.
Both teams had very good chanses , but a key element to this game that left it goalless was the top goalkeeping, the two top class goalkeepers Chech and Victor Valdes made very important saves that kept there teams in the draw.
The chelsea team made a good efort but now they have all the work to do, any scoring draw nat Stamford bridge will mean that the blues will be out og the tournament. Eto ,the barcelona striker,said that hes sure that if Chelsea play like they did they will surley lose.
During the match Barcelona held most of the possession, similar to there matches against Bayern and Lyon, but Chelseas defence prevailed even thought in the last round they let in 5 goals against Liverpool.
"They had a lot of possession but we stayed very tight," Terry said. "We watched videos before the game, they like to play little balls through and we knew that and stopped them doing it.".
Chelsea and Barcelona have met in four of the last five champions league competitions.
Pep Guardiola felt cheated he said that it was unfail when a team is trying to play creativly while the other team plays defence.
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