The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 manager has accepted that Chelsea failed to impress against Benfica but progressed to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League regardless. The Italian manager revealed that his time will have a plan to beat
Barcelona in the semi-finals...
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Di Matteo has accepted that his team lacked the necessary spark to gain a convincing win at Stamford Bridge in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal tie against Benfica. After winning the first leg
in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097 penalty kick. However Benfica
got back into the game in the latter stages of the second half when Aimar’s corner was headed in.
With the score line tied at 1-1, Benfica just needed another goal to put them through to the semi-finals but http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Raul-Meireles-c30678 scored a belter with virtually the last kick of the match to seal Chelsea’s place in the last four teams
of the Champions League. Roberto Di Matteo’s team will now face http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604.
Di Matteo said, "As I said in the press conference, we expected a difficult game, a hard game, and that proved to be it exactly. We probably made it a little bit more difficult for ourselves by not scoring a second goal, especially
in that second half with all those chances. That kept them alive and [gave them] hope that they would score a goal and still be in it.”
He added, "It will be exciting to play two games against probably one of the best teams in the world. We will find a strategy that will suit our players and our team to face Barcelona. I think it will be a combination [of playing
to our strengths and attempting to cancel out their players]. They obviously have some individual players that are a big threat and very dangerous, but we also have to play our game and play to our strengths."
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