Admittedly, I'm envious of Chelsea's defense. Even at our peak in 2015 we never had this much security in defense during CL despite being a great team. In 2017 we were great too but we were conceding lots of shots in the knockouts
This Chelsea team throughout the knockouts of CL shuts down teams and don't concede shots. Yeah I agree the competition is terrible compared to ours in our time, its nothing like we've faced, what I meant was just pointing out the sense of security they had.
Atleti for example in their prime shut down prime Barca and a solid Bayern a couple of times. Simply think that we didn't have this sense of security at the back in CL
the biggest choke job was us against Hamburg in 1983. How can you lose with a team consisting of world champions including Zoff, Cabrini, Scirea, Gentile, Tardelli, Rossi, and add Bettega, Platini and Boniek.
This Chelsea team throughout the knockouts of CL shuts down teams and don't concede shots. Yeah I agree the competition is terrible compared to ours in our time, its nothing like we've faced, what I meant was just pointing out the sense of security they had.
Atleti for example in their prime shut down prime Barca and a solid Bayern a couple of times. Simply think that we didn't have this sense of security at the back in CL
We had bonucci, who is the father of insecurity. Juve players piss their pants in CHL final. It's like they go to final for only purpose, not to win it but to lose it.
This is probably going to be a very unpopualar opinion, but the BBC as a back three just did not hold up against the elite in Europe. Playing in a back two, particularly with Chiellini and Bonucci is a different story.
Thats boring, here is a fun thing. Who loses their CL title if this was still Champions Cup and only champions played, and they wouldnt even participate:
21 Chelsea
20 Bayern 19 Liverpool
18 Real 17 Real
16 Real
15 Barcelona
14 Real
13 Bayern
12 Chelsea
11 Barcelona
10 inter 09 Barcelona
08 Manchester 07 Milan
06 Barcelona 05 Liverpool
04 Porto 03 Milan
02 Real
01 Bayern 00 Real
99 Manchester
98 Real
and pep, the visionary left both fernandinho and rodri on the bench, started with zero dm's. didn't watch the game, checked the highlights afterwards, it seems to me that chelsea countered the shit out of city in the first half.