Barcelona's Messi can't stop sniping at Chelsea

Barcelona star Lionel Messi has made a new verbal attack on Chelsea after last season's controversial Champions League semifinal victory.

Barca were outplayed in both legs by Chelsea, but managed to scrape home by the away goals rule.

"If a team comes and tries to play football against us, then fine," Messi told Four Four Two magazine. "But at no time did Chelsea want to play football. They just refused.

"They wanted to make it a messy, broken-up match, very stop-start. A physical contest more than football.

"That's not our way. Our way is to want the ball all the time.

"When a team plays like that, you think. 'How can it be a team with players as good as that doesn't even try to play the ball? How can they just sit there?'"

Messi added: "They got the ball, gave it to the goalie and he thumped it. And that was it. It's hard to believe a team that reached last year's final and have been Premier League champions could play like that."

ViNnO

7 Jul 09, 19:51

Lol still about the wat drogba and tt chelsea def thing?

limpper

7 Jul 09, 21:58

i think messi will rmb that match for a long period. lol

MrCloneMaster

7 Jul 09, 22:25

Messi added: "They got the ball, gave it to the goalie and he thumped it. And that was it. It's hard to believe a team that reached last year's final and have been Premier League champions could play like that."

Isn't he refering to Manchester United?? hmm...

marcteng

8 Jul 09, 00:20

u cant let barcelona to play their flowing and passing football.

if you did, u are dead. see how they keep and then pass the ball around. even man utd with their attacking football, were outplayed, outpassed, outthought etc.

chelsea damn unlucky not to qualify for the finals, as barcelona had 1 man down. chelsea should have attack and kill off the tie when it is 1-0 and not play for time. look what happened in the injury time.

innosaint

8 Jul 09, 00:37

Chelsea did not play for time. In fact at 2nd leg, they attacked more than Barca.

Only thing is their attackers kept getting hacked down. Barca prob knew Refs on their side to play like that.

10 penalties were denied, with 4 very obvious ones!

Messi prob rmb tis match cos he's knows Barcelona will never match Chelsea superiority even if they won CL title.

Oh..... & do chk out wat the whole world thin abt it....

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