Barcelona are favourites in the final-16 tie but Pedro says Chelsea’s win in 2012 can serve as a springboard for successThis is a fixture to bring memories of frenzied preceding meetings flooding back. Even 13 years on it is easy to recall Ronaldinho’s shimmying hips and that shot bereft of back-lift planted beyond Petr Cech from distance or John Terrys headed riposte which carried the hosts through.
There was the spite which hounded the referee Anders Frisk from football in 2005 or,four years later, the locals’ furious disbelief as Tom Henning Øvrebø dismissed Chelsea’s numerous penalty appeals and Didier Drogba bellowed post-match conspiracy theories into a TV camera. Hospitals in Barcelona reported a 45% increase in the number of births nine months later, and a spike put down to Andrés Iniesta’s stoppage time equaliser at Stamford Bridge.
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Source: guardian.co.uk