Thursday, November 27, 2008

Champions League - Chelsea suffer rain of goals at home to Barcelona


The Sporting suffered Alvalade last night in a 5-2 defeat by Barcelona in front of the game 5. Matchday of the group stage of the Champions League. With this triumph the Barcelona ensured the victory in Group C. Despite the defeat the "Lions are already in the First knockout round of the UEFA Champions League, the meeting served only to decide the first of the group where the Barcelona showed a remarkable superiority. With the label to debut at 14 minutes with goal from Henry, Polga a autogolo made the 2-0 for the Spanish team, and that result remained until the end of the first part. At 49 minutes, Messi increased the advantage to Barcelona. As space of two minutes, Miguel Veloso, at 65 minutes and Liedson to 66, turned the result to 2-3. But a new autogolo to 67 minutes, this time from March Caneira, put the advantage in Barcelona by two goals. From large penalty, after the goalkeeper's Sporting have been expelled, having overthrown Krkić in the area, Bojan had the fifth goal for Catalans, the 73 minutes. With this result the Barcelona ensured the victory in Group C, regardless of the outcome of the sixth and final round, in which Chelsea play at the stage of Basel, who today lost by 5-0 with Shakhtar Donetsk and stayed away from European competitions, the unlike the Ukrainian, which carried over into the UEFA Cup.

No comments: