RELIVING - BARCELONA 🆚 CHELSEA 2012 2nd Leg

- Down to 10 men
- No recognized CB
- At Camp Nou
- Being 2-0 down

Chelsea staged a phenomenal comeback with only 28% possession!!

Let's relive the moments one more time...

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Cahill & Pique 🤕

Within the first 10 mins, Cahill was injured when Barca stretched the CFC backline. In the 12th min, Cahill was subbed off for Bosingwa. Consequently, Ivanovic shifting to CB.

Pique was also knocked out on the 16th min forcing him to be off as well.

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Busquets ⚽️

In the 35th min after a great clearance from Drogba from a corner, Barca finally found some space out wide. A killer ball was squared to the middle of the box & a highly unlikely player called Busquets broke the deadlock and leveled the aggregate score at 1-1.

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JT Red Card

In the 37th min, calamity struck. Our captain and leader John Terry was red-carded due to a knee on the back of Sanchez.

As if the match wasn't hard enough but it got even harder!!

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Iniesta ⚽️

In the 44th min, Chelsea was opened up by a swift move between Sanchez, Messi, and Iniesta. Messi's pass to Iniesta took out the defense completely and Iniesta finish was something out of the FIFA game.

2-0 to Barca (2-1 in aggregate)

A mammoth task from here

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Ramires ⚽️

In the 45th min, a sublime play out of nowhere. Ramires finds Lamps in midfield. Lampard uses his strength & control brilliantly to find the marauding run of Ramires.

A majestic finish from Ramires and a lifeline for Chelsea yet again.

2-1 (2-2 in aggregate)

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Drogba Pen Giveaway & Messi Miss

A disastrous start to the 2nd half when Drogba gave away a pen in the 48th min. Stepped in Messi, who at the point had already scored 63 goals for the season. However, at this stage luck was completely with Chelsea as Messi missed the pen!!

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Messi Hits The Post

In the 86th min, Messi took on the Chelsea low block and fired off a lethal left-foot strike. He hit the post but replays showed that Cech probably had a slight touch which deflected off to the post.

Cech was immense on this night!!

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Torres ⚽️

As time was ticking away & Barca desperate for a goal, in the 90th min, Ashley Cole's clearance found Torres 1 v 1 against Valdes.

Commentator: "ÂŁ50 million pounds just been repaid"

An epic comeback that finished 2-2 (2-3 in aggregate) & took CFC to the final.

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