VS.

9409 CHELSEA FC +350
9410 BARCELONA FC -143
9411 DRAW +225

ESTADIO CAMP NOU, APRIL 28TH 2009

Chelsea travels to Spain to face their rivals Barcelona on the first leg of the semis. Chelsea has many injuries but they are confident they can score against spain giants and come home to close the deal, are they able to do such a thing???

Hiddink feels incredibly confident that the first leg will be all about his team and the fact that they will score at Camp Nou which is important for the goal difference factor in this european competition. Also he managed to have portugal international player Jose Bosingwa ready to face his biggest challenge, to stop Lionel Messi or at least to hold him back since even Hiddink feels that noone can fully stop a player like Messi. Bosingwa was given the chance after Ashley Cole’s suspension and the injury of Paulo Ferreira, Hiddink had other players in mind but analizing all odds he decided today to go with the portugal right-back playing on the left-back position, he felt it was the best tactic to try to hold back Messi and I totally agree, Bosingwa has what it takes to hold the monster although it comes to a simple question, for how long??

Barcelona has made the previous adjustments and they feel ready to face Chelsea one more time, the Cules are not afraid since they will be attacking with 3 players, Messi, Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry, so it will be 90 thrilling minutes of attacking and defending.

My prediction will be Barcelona wins at Camp Nou but Chelsea will be scoring so that will complicate matters for next week when Barca has to travel to Stamford Bridge to close the series there. BARCELONA WILL BE THE PICK FOR TOMORROW SINCE THE ODDS SPEAK LOUD AND CLEAR SO GET YOUR BETS IN.

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