Was Chelsea Robbed or Did Barcelona Persevere?

Barcelona won through persistence. The Blaugrana never renounced their attack in either match. Even with the whole Chelsea team defending, Barca kept insisting, always moving forward, always trying to earn goals fairly and through sacrifice. And Chelsea could do nothing but sit back like logs, trying to frustrate Barca rather than beat them on the pitch like men.

No excuses, Chelsea. Don't blame the referee. He did his job badly. But he did not side with one particular club. There was a hand ball by Pique in the box, but Abidal was sent away because the Chelsea player tripped on his own foot. Let's leave it at that, shall we.

Barcelona were robbed in the first leg, they also had a player sent off which shouldnt have been.

In the end of the day, Chelsea were able to defend for 180 minutes, but were punished when giving the ball away, which you cannot afford to do.

It doesn't matter how many opportunities did Chelsea wasted, but how many opportunities were taken from them. It should have been a victory with at least 3 goals difference, but when you have a referee who doesn't know how to judge it can be really demoralized for the players which are in negative effect of his decisions. This game was a complete robbery and hopefully we wont see this referee again in UEFA competitions.

chelsea was robbed by the officials, its common sense that they wanted ronaldo vs messi and uefa and nike both said back in september that barcelona vs manchester united would be a dream match, and those words make it pretty obvious

chelsea was robbed but barcelona deserved being in the final more than chelsea

Chelsea were robbed but I wanted Barca in the final anyways despite them playing pretty poor.

not really... cause chelsea didn't exactly play "fairly" in the first leg...

however the ref wasn't exactly fair 2 chelsea in the second leg, dispite this chelsea had a lot of good chances but didnt capitalise

Chelsea wasn't robbed. They lost because of lack of talent.

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