For most people, Barcelona seems to be already the champions league winner of this season, but not so in my eyes. Their bad point is still their defense, what was also easy to see against Valencia. They are just to slow in their movement back in own half of the court, so if the other team get switch fast from defending to attacking, Barcelona get in trouble. The other problem of this defense is that they are not really strong against technical good teams and this is something we also saw against Valencia when David Villa was playing a little bit with some defenders. Barcas offense is of course great with Messi, Eto and Henry, but Eto is the great guy in my eyes, not Messi.

Chelsea is in the total different direction. Their great part is the defense, today with Bosingwa, Alex, Terry and Ivanovic. I Like their kind of play, because most of their defenders are incredible dangerous in their movement to the other side. Bosingwa has the quality to play in midfield, because he is technical fantastic and he is really fast, so he is probably the guy to fight against Messi. The other parts of Chelsea have one point, which is going to be dangerous for Barcelona: there are much more scoring guys at Chelsea then in Barcelona, where mostly every goal is made by the three strikers in front. I think Chelsea is much stronger then most people expect.

Pick: Asian Handicap +0,75 Chelsea

Odds: 1,98 at Betdaq (a betting exchange with great traffic for asian handicaps)