So a forgotten penalty in the first leg for benfica, this red card on maxi perreira.... We played beautiful football I'm proud of my team better than chelsea, and we had four injuries in the defence before the game...

Chelsea were always going to play with counter attack to save energy. Benfica only came with a massive spark in last 10 minutes with 10 men. Even without the red-card, they only could afford some long shots. Chelsea stuck to the plan, could have scored a lot more goals if some of the players performed better. Kalou lost so many balls and chances in front of the goal. He is really good in getting into right positions and making those runs, but then fails like always. Raul's goal was amazing! I hope the referee is more patient in throwing yellow cards and let the game flow in Chelsea vs Barca game. Don't want a repeat of their previous meeting when terrible refereeing saw Barca through

No one can defend like Milan did against Barcelona. They were amazing for the most part. Yikes.... Messi's gonna' have a field day against Chelsea as he'll finally have a chance to stretch his legs.

The only way Chelsea wins: 1) Converting set-pieces religiously.

2) Hoping Meireles/Lamps or anyone can score 1-2 goals from outside the box in at least one of the legs.

3) Hoping neither Messi, Sanchez, Iniesta, Fabregas, Xavi, Pedro, Alves, Thiago, Cuenca, Pique, Tello get more than a few clear chances to score altogether over 2 legs. Barca have been wasteful the last few games, but considering 2009 Pep'll be wanting to finish this tie in the first leg.

Either way, Barcelona are gonna' enjoy this more than playing Milan. And when they enjoy, they dominate lol. Too bad, I like Drogba

I hope Chelsea can pick a weaker team against Tottenham for FA cup semis to save some energy against Barca. They will surely play Counter attacking football, but giving Barcelona most of the possession will be unwise. I don't expect an entertaining football from Chelsea during first leg. About the red card, if Pereira wasn't on yellow, this would have been a straight red. Rest again, loved the way Benfica played with 10 men in last 10 minutes. They were all charged up

Wonder why better links aren't on for this game  

Why did benfica take off carozo and gaitan? Suicide?

Chelsea played like they did not even want to be on the field. They put no pressure what so ever on Benfica. Benfica played better overall except their forwards just could not finish. Very boring game except the last 10 minutes were great to watch!

At the end of the day, KEEP THE BLUE FLAG flying HIGH! No matter how we are gonna' play against barca & uefa in the semi-finals, I will love and support my team whatsoever. I mean the worst season of all recently for us and we made it to the top 4 in europe? Yeah wassup

Messi vs psycho bob a. K. A David Luiz = 10-0 Barca (over the first leg!) haha, seriously, psycho bob will get mulled over by messi so hopefully di matteo is smart enough to not put him on the bench. Congrats to Chelsea, they have suffered much this season. Hopefully either them or bayern win the champs league

Ramires is garbage. Idk why he even plays

Meireles.... What a fxxking Goal.
In fact, Benfica play very to as well, especially they only got 10 players.... Impressive!

Pride of london

I guess I watched a different game then everyone else after reading the comments

The penalty was a clear cut penalty, cole got barged off the ball, anyone who says otherwise is either blind, bitter or looking for any excuse

The red card was a red card, studs up with absolutely no contact with the ball and hit mikel on the shin. He was already on a yellow which just makes it idiotic for him to do that

Chelsea was dominant for 80minutes, only until the last 10 did benfica dominate, people who are saying chelsea are lucky are delusional. If anything benfica are lucky it wasnt 5-1 with all the chances chelsea had

Meireleses goal would have felt oh so sweet especially since he is a former porto boy and since he got heckled and booed during the first leg

Be as bitter as you want, fact is chelsea went through and rightly so. Lets hope the game against barca has no stupid refereeing blunders so that the right team can win this time

Chelsea, for the love of god, beat barca in the semis, that would make my day, so sick of them.
Torres is gonna' prove why he should be the starting striker for spain over the two legs. I will at least garuntee that. As far as winning, um I hope but I seriously doubt.

As for this game, benfica played well, there were some harsh calls, but I believe the better team won

I consider the Champions League more important than any other competition. Since Chelsea made it way further than us, I can humbly admit that they are better than us this year. Congrats guys, hopefully we get better next year