Source: Daily_Mail
Cech sings Bosingwa's praises for marking Messi out of the game
Petr Cech claims team-mate Jose Bosingwa deserves the most credit for Chelsea's goalless draw against Barcelona at the Nou Camp last night because he managed to keep Lionel Messi quiet.[LNB]The Portugal international was given the task of marking Messi out of the game as a makeshift left-back due to Ashley Cole's suspension and excelled as Barca failed to score at home for the first time this season.[LNB]Cech, himself, made fantastic saves from Thierry Henry, Daniel Alves, Aleksandr Hleb, and Samuel Eto'o to make Guus Hiddink's men slight favourites to reach their second successive Champions League final.[LNB][LNB] Nou Clamp: Jose Bosingwa (right) stops Barcelona's Lionel Messi in his tracks [LNB]But Cech made light of his own goalkeeping heroics and paid tributeto Bosingwa and was also full of praise for the rest of the side -particularly John Terry.[LNB]'The biggest compliment should go to Jose because I think it was thesecond time in his life that he played at left back and it was againstMessi,' he said.[LNB]We stopped them: Cech and Terry[LNB]'But you couldn't see Messi on the pitch today. John was alsofantastic and I have to say so were all the other guys because it isnot easy to come here and deal with all their attacking threat.[LNB]'But John was the leader of the back four and was brilliant. It isthe first time we have got a clean sheet here but it is also the firsttime we haven't scored.[LNB]The two teams contest the second leg of the semi-final at StamfordBridge next Wednesday and Cech concedes the tie is still open but isconvinced Chelsea will score at home.[LNB]'The tie is still open but I think we can reproduce the samedefensive work at home and we can always score goals at StamfordBridge,' he added.[LNB]'Of course They have the best attack in the world, so it still stays 50-50.[LNB]'We just had to stay organised and everyone had to put in great effort for the individual and tactical work.'[LNB] Barcelona 0 Chelsea 0: Guus's yellow brick wall - Pep's starsClose to perfection! Terry hails Chelsea heroes after blocking out BarcaHiddink surrenders moral high ground with total eclipse of Barca's favourite sonCHELSEA FC
