What’s your thoughts and predictions in first leg ?
Will give mine later i have mixed feelings on this...

Chelsea attacked whole game as soon they got the ball it was all about playing fast, this is why many balls were lost but the gameplan was to play fast, Barcelona does have more experience and they did control the ball but never actually made anything from their possession.

Chelsea prioritized defense, but were not shy to break fast when they got possession back like Golazo said. I wouldn't say they attacked the whole game, but that's also not saying they didn't want anything to do with attacking. In fact, they had the better chances over the whole game. They had a game plan and executed it well.

Barcelona tends to get stuck when they face a well organized defense unless Messi decides to do something about it. If Messi has his day then there's not much you can do about it. This is probably where the new players like Coutinho (next season) and Dembele can help by bringing in new ideas into the game coming off the bench, and not have to rely so much on Messi breaking down a tough defensive team.

But when the whole team is on their own box, it’s hard to get that ball. Before the equalization they were only focused on throwing the ball as far as possible, that’s not really attacking... anyway open playing them was not possible eaither look at Girona treatment...

Chelsea played their usual Conte style of football. Game plan was ofcourse different but Chelsea often doesn't possession against other big clubs. Our strength was always in the counter attacking and direct football. We tired tiki taka style with Villa Boas and got annihilated. It is our DNA and we embrace it. Barcelona couldn't do anything. Nothing. Messi was usual Messi when he plays Chelsea. Canceled out and his goal came from incredible amount of coincided stupid mistakes.

I was actually very surprised the way Barcelona performed because I expected more but after the game it became clear Chelsea just simply outplayed Barcelona and shoot themselves in the foot to draw the game.

Barcelona was just passing the ball from the backline most of the time, Chelsea defended like any big team does with 10 players on their half, that's just how Barcelona defends as well, difference is Barcelona plays slow football and waits for an opening and that maybe works against La Liga teams but didn't work at all vs Chelsea part from 1 chance that Paulinho had...

Chelsea played attacking football and scored from it, Barcelona played slow possesion football and didn't score from it.

Lolll,

Please name one team who park the bus, or play defensive and NOT trying to attack when having a ball.

That's called: playing football.

By your book, all team playing attacking football. Please go on highlights, papers, news, and enlighten yourself to see if Chelsea play ultra defensive or not. But they did great with their counters. If almost the chances you had was counters and the rest of the time you defend, then you play defensive.

Like Marcus said, its Conte tactic, and Chelsea embraced it. Saying they played attacking football, you WOWed us again.

And please, please stop dragging La Liga teams in again. You have already won, noone cares if Barca success is because La Liga teams are weak and naive. So please, stop.

I don't see a problem of admitting that we play defensive football. I never denied it and I truly think that our brand of football has its perks. Chelsea was doing marvelous text book Catenaccio style defending.

People are quick to judge our defensive tactics as negative and make it look as if it is coward style and Golazo sweating here trying to prove that we were attacking. Nothing wrong with our style. It is still football and we just doing this very well. Not many clubs can defend like Chelsea against Barcelona then hit them hard on the break and have more goal scoring chances than supposed attacking team. They had the ball most of the time and that is what Barcelona does best, so we let them play their game and we played our game.

Manchester United parks the bus, like Chelsea did before with Mourinho.
Conte isn't parking the bus, big difference.
Like I said when Chelsea had the ball they attacked, and scored from attacking and not from parking the bus, at the same time Barcelona was also defending like Chelsea with most of their players because yes, that is called playing football, in total Chelsea had 2 shots on target 7 off target, Barcelona had 2 shots on target and 3 off target but just had their slow paced possession of the ball which was most of the time around the middle of the pitch.
Guess what it's pretty normal to defend when the other team has the ball, Barcelona made so many passes but really they did almost nothing, they scored from a loose ball that was a mistake from the Chelsea players.

Well, sure Barca scored from a mistake but its by having the ball in that zone of the field that mistake like that happen. I'm not saying Chelsea didn't mess up on the occasion but Barca deserve a bit more credit that is already given, yeah, they weren't really that dangerous, but they forced Chelsea in their own defensive zone a lot of time and that in itself isn't bad. Chelsea still got the better occasion through Willian but if they wouldn't been under pressure from Barca so close to their goal, they certainly wouldn't have taken that goal. Personally, I really wouldn't say any team dominated, they just played differently and while Chelsea got more chance, they were forced into their own half too much. For me, while its true the game was a bit boring, I really think it was pretty even.

Valverde got criticized massively after the game, while many saw in England the 1-1 as a good result. In Spain the squad got criticized severely by Spanish catalan pundits, yes Barça’s game was pretty bad but teams that save the face in their worst days are teams that advance and are dangerous to beat over 2 legs.
Considering the game itself, the draw looks like a victory i was happy at the final whistle.
@Tuan I just pointed Barca actual away form, midtable teams took points for us lately, so it’s okay to minimize our performance I agree with it. I’m just pointing that drawing home in a 2 legged confrontation vs Barca is not an achievement eaither recently.
Chelsea played exactly like Espagnol did in Copa in the 1-0 defeat, only difference is wings tactics by Conte while Espagnol chose rough play to compensate...

Barca manage to win and/or avoid loss even when not having a bad day. THAT is the mark of a champion! Because when they have a good day... very few teams can challenge them.

Barca manage to win and/or avoid loss even when not having a bad day. THAT is the mark of a champion!

It's the way the big teams can play sometimes...But Barcelona wasn't actually bad they came to the away game and see if they can get an away goal and they did it.

@tiki To be fair, no team in their right mind should leave Messi unmarked troughout a game. Suprised to hear it was only Rudiger though, they might have put a better player in that role. Goes to show Conte trust Rudiger well. :D

Kante focused on him while in his zone.

You should see how they marked Hazard, they pretty much couldn't he got fauled like 5 times :D

@tiki Doesn't mean Kante was marking him in particular, I mean, he is so fast he could propably mark himself so lets not even talk about 2 or 3 other player. XD But yeah, more seriously, I got no doubt Messi suffered special attention from Chelsea. People know how dangerous he is and that you need to mark him with two or more player to neutralize him.

@tiki And yeah, Barca also marked Hazard tightly, they obviously realize he is one of the most dangerous player for Chelsea. He sadly wasn't able to do much in that game because of the tight marking but he did manage to get a lots of fault in his favor. :D

I hope dembele or coutinho plays at nou camp. city have shown that against back 5, playing with wide wingers are better. Even so, I think valverde is going to play safe with paulinho and rakitic.

Coutinho Is cup tied to Liverpool so we can't play for Barca in CL.

I think barca more worried in first leg, that because that ended in a drow,in 2ed leg barca pley more confidence chelsea can't keep possession,barca play more possession football,i thik barca score atleast 2 goals and win it easily.