Predictions as Chelsea host Barcelona: Blues to beat the narratives

Chelsea host Barcelona in the biggest match of the season. It will take perfection, but the Blues can overcome their Spanish rivals.

Charlie Dawson 3 Chelsea-1 Barcelona: Eden Hazard, Olivier Giroud and Cesc Fabregas/N’Golo Kante … or Willan I can’t decide

Scott Brant 1-0: The midfield will be destroyed, Kante will be the only one still standing come the final whistle. The Blues ugly the match up which frustrates the pretty passing Barcelona side. Antonio Conte will have done well to stifle Lionel Messi and company and escape with the win by his pearly white teeth. Keeping hope alive for the reverse fixture at the Camp Nou.

Barrett Rouen 3-1: There is not one ounce of logic to this. Pure card carrying Blue’s support here. Let us go to war. The ghost of Peter Osgood takes over the frail skeleton that is Alvaro Morata. Antonio Rudiger realises he can be the new Ron “Chopper” Harris and Andreas Christensen is Christensen. Some calls we’re owed from 2009 finally go our way. Barcelona score first. Chelsea get a penalty come back and establish a good lead.

Kevin Peacock 2-0: Chelsea, as ever, raise their game when the big boys come to town. Watford may have been able to walk all over us, but not Barca. Messi’s inability to score against London’s finest continues as Chelsea win 2-0. Morata wakes from his slumber as he once again faces an old foe that rekindles something in the back of his brain about him being a footballer. His brace gives the Blues the edge.

Hugo Amaya 3-0: Yes, 3-0. Arrogant? Maybe. Hopeful? More than likely. But Chelsea will not fall under the spell of “Barca is the best team in the world” and show their true nature. Conte will set up a defensive game to stop them from scoring. But Chelsea will be clinical on the counter. It will be an intense game that boils down to details and Chelsea will get them right.

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Shivansh Sareen 2-1: Hazard and Morata score early on. Messi finally breaks his duck against Chelsea as Thibaut Courtois lets a half – hearted attempt squirm from his fingers in the dying embers of the game.

Abhishek Pancholi 2-0: For all their brilliance, Barcelona will have no answers to the niggling presence of N’Golo Kante in midfield. This would then disrupt the supply line to their forwards, with Messi having one of those days when he will do everything but get on the scoresheet. Having to deal with crosses aimed at Olivier Giroud up front while Hazard buzzes around him will prove too much to handle for the visitors.

Dan McClue 0-2:  I have missed this sense of dread before the Champions League knockout fixtures. Barcelona are unbeaten in La Liga and are one of the favourites for the competition. Chelsea have matched up well against them in the past but the narrative of You-Know-Who never scoring against The Blues is just making me more nervous.

Ollie Miller 0-3: While I love all the positivity and blue tinted predictions, I cannot see anything other than a heavy beating for Chelsea. It is going to be bad. Real bad. I hope I am wrong and if Hazard turns up then who knows what could happen. Messi to finally score against us.

Nate Hofmann 0-2: Trying to stop Messi is a bit like a being a beaver building a dam. You can use as many sticks and logs as you want, and it will stem the flow of the river for awhile, but alas, the river will always be the greater force. Messi is that river, and Chelsea have served as particularly determined beavers over the last several years. Unfortunately, I think this is the day the river finally wins out. I am predicting a brace for the GOAT.

Travis Tyler 2-0: It is just Barcelona. We have been here before and come out of worse situations, time to do so again.

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