Fantastic first half!

Both defences were quite shaky but Napoli's trio always looked more likely to capitalize on defensive mishaps rather than Chelsea's.

For a moment after Mata's goal I thought Napoli were going to collapse, they were making mistakes all over.

Great comeback though. But with the away goal, they need at least another goal while keeping Chelsea out

3-1?

Make that 4!!

Italy > England. Fact

I wouldn't say that yet, but the psychological edge is back in favor of Italian teams now.

Keep repeating myself but these 2 by far are worse than United, City. Good to see the Italian League doing well though, especially against English opposition, not been the case for a few years.

Though Napoli also handled well with City in the group stage while United exit id just hard to explain cuz they were in an easy group.

That Cole clearance from the line is pretty big. 4-1 would have been very tough to comeback from.

How ironic,considiring Napoli have been uber sh1t in the leauge.They really know how to play big games




Yeah,they had a very very tough group.

I just wanted that ball to be smashed into the net,finish could have been better

But,good clearance too .

Napoli's style of play is to play on the counter. It works effectively against big sides because big sides tend to control possession, push further up field and leave spaces for the likes of Hamsik, Cavani and Lavezzi to exploit. But it doesn't work against smaller sides in Serie A.

Fantastic performance from Napoli. Could have been a much more painful defeat for Chelsea. Their defense was a total mess.

Great result

Still the defending was completely cr@p on both sides of the pitch, and while Napoli took their chances, Celsea did not.

I fear that this tie is far from over. That clearance off the line from Cole could be crucial.

Now it's up to Inter to make it a clean sweep. If Italy could somehow get 3 teams in the quarter it would be great for Serie A. But once again, the Europa League teams will most likely ruin all of the good work done in the CL

Cavani was wasteful too imo.

No way! Inter must loooooooose.

Indeed. I'm all against them

Come on Ranieri pull a Ranieri!

David Luiz

He really is the worst premier league defender I've ever seen. Not even Boumsong and Bramble were this awful. £20m as well, my God. Was he an Ancelotti signing?

He was bought last January, along the same time or day as the Torres deal right?

Why did we want him so much ?

People used to drool all over his name...

No way I want them in the quarters. 3 Italian teams in the quarter finals will send out a message. And next season Italy could do better with Juve beck in. Serie A really needs this boost.

So tonight I'm rooting for Inter

Naah, that won't bring to anything. Message? The message they sent is - Napoli playing CL = loosing their respectable league position. Next season most probably Udine or Lazio will play for Italy in the CL - sounds like nothing but early elimination to me?

I remember Thiago Silva praising him a lot. But honestly, Cahill was 10x worse last night.

Cahill is poor, but he's playing out of his element at Chelsea I think. JT will be awful under AVB too, slower defenders won't really work for him, he plays too high a line. But Luiz is a defender who likes to play the ball and he has pace, this system is perfect for him and he still fails. I've never seen a defender with such poor positional sense before. He makes Kaladze look like Maldini.

He should be moved in the DM slot for them. He's only partly decent defensively but great on the ball, better than Ramires FFS who does nothing but run himself into the ground.

Lampard is better than all their mids put together imo and he leaves him on the bench.

And don't get me started on the utter misuse of a top class player like Mata

Cahill is a poor man's John Terry (when he was actually good that is)

@ Filippo, 3 Serie A clubs will definately be something great imo. I don't really care if they're Inter. They're getting humiliated enough in the league to keep me more than happy.

As for Napoli, I think they'll get the final CL slot in the end. Udine and Lazio will inevitably drop down, especially Udine without Isla and Toto

Watching a bit of the Bayern game now. Which game is everyone watching?

Ah, forgot there were games on tonight. I liked it better when all the games were held over two nights - it was more exciting.

Bayern are so overrated it's unreal.

I knew it No, actually, I don't agree. It's just a piss poor form they have lately. The lack only 1-2 great signings to be top class IMO.

merda even in France is still merda.

Inter starting XI tonight had average age of 31 years and 331 days - the oldest in ChampionsLeague history.

haha basel have done it again.

both inter and bayern lost... i expect bayern to go through but it will b difficult for inter

This keeps getting better and better.

I watched the Inter game until like, the 85th minute. I was certain it was gonna be a draw. LOL. if I were Moratti I'd sack that sorry excuse for a coach this very day. he's not worth showing trust in. (not that I'm complaining)

But their options are limited. Who'd want to come as a third option right now? I can only see another temporary solution like Bergomi or Baresi.

Hopefully, they haven't got Capello in mind.

Mediaset suggested a few days ago Materazzi. Oh the comedy if that really happened.

That would be something. But no, I want Ranieri to stay as long as possible. He's the perfect incorporation of Inters capabilities right now.

Phrase of the day for you?

Materazzi as Inter coach,lol!

Whatever happened to Gourcuff?

Barca looking as hungry as ever tonight.

Messi has scored 4 and their youth Tello with a 5th.

5-0 and its only the 60min.

6-0

Tello with his 2nd.

Poor Leverkusen...

5 for Messi 7-0 for Barca

Messi's CL stats are pretty amazing: 51 goals in 65 games (including today). Only 20 goals away from Raul's record and he's only 24 y.o.

FT 7-1 (9-1 on aggregate)

Apoel Nicosia are still drawing with Lyon, looking like it's going to penalties.

I didn't bother watching Barcelona. APOEL-Lyon has been quite entertaining. And it looks like it's going on penalties.

I haven't watched Lyon for quite some time now, they are not the force they were a few years ago but take nothing away, this is huge for Apoel.

I would gladly welcome the winner of this game to be our next opponent..