Source: Daily_Mail
MARTIN SAMUEL: Handballs, fouls and a late swing of the boot do the job for Barca
Do not let anyone tell you the best team won. Do not let anyone say that football was the victor here. Barcelona may yet grace the Champions League final, they may yet dazzle this competition with a beautiful game, but this was not one of them.[LNB]They swung a boot. Swung a boot and got lucky. Swung a boot and, somehow, eliminated a Chelsea team that were superior on the night and deserved a rematch with Manchester United in Rome.[LNB]Andres Iniesta's equalising goal in the third minute of injury time was a fine shot, a killer blow, timed and directed to perfection but for Barcelona it was also the last roll of the dice. [LNB] Enlarge Cech out: the game's up as Iniesta's shot screams past the Chelsea goalkeeper[LNB]Full credit to them for never giving up, for sticking to theirprinciples even when reduced to 10 men, but having promised to outplayChelsea and demonstrate their status as superior footballers andrightful kings of Europe, they did nothing of the sort.[LNB]Lionel Messi was ineffective and largely anonymous by his standards.Samuel Eto'o was shut out of the game by John Terry, whose fate was,perhaps, harshest of all after his agonising penalty shootout miss inMoscow last year. [LNB] Heartbreak: The gallant Terry trudges off the field with Michael Ballack[LNB][LNB]Chelsea should have had three, maybe four, penalties; they shouldhave been home free long before Iniesta's fateful intervention. Thatthey were not was considered the work of referee Tom Henning Ovrebo,from Norway, whose interpretations of several contentious incidentswere bizarre to say the least. [LNB]He judged fouls made inside the area to be outside, the ball was handled and he waved play on, and as the game unfolded those with a sense of portent began to fear that calamity loomed.[LNB] Cheated out: Foul-mouthed Drogba rages as ref denies furious Chelsea FOUR penaltiesGRAHAM POLL: The referee was wrong, but you can't behave like that...Neil Ashton's tactics board... your at-a-glance guide to the action at Stamford Bridge Chelsea 1 Barcelona 1 (Agg 1-1 Barca win on away goals: Agony at the death for BluesMARTIN SAMUEL: Messi will be hard pressed to top this Ronaldo supershowCHELSEA FC
