In a recent telegraph article 5 ways of stopping Barcelona for the Chelsea team were the following:
1 – Petr Cech
2 – Depth
3 – Weight of Numbers
4 – Lionel Messi
5 – Cunning
As you will notice one major way of stopping Barca, is to stop they playmaker Lionel Messi. Messi, the Argentinian superstar has been touted as the best player in the world at the present time. If a team players a right footed player at left back, it seems to work a treat against Messi, blocking him coming in field and setting up plays seemed to work against Chelsea.
As I said in a previous story, not playing Ashley Cole maybe a blessing is disguise! Role on the second leg.
