Barcelona star
Lionel Messi has made a new
verbal attack on Chelsea after
last season's controversial Champions League semifinal victory.
Barca were outplayed in both legs by Chelsea, but managed to scrape home by the away
goals rule.
"If a team comes and tries to play football against us, then
fine," Messi told Four Four Two magazine. "But at no time
did Chelsea want to play
football. They just refused.
"They wanted to make it a messy, broken-up match, very
stop-start. A physical contest more than football.
"That's not our way. Our way is to want the ball all the
time.
"When a team plays like that, you think. 'How can it be a team
with players as good as that doesn't even try to play the ball? How
can they just sit there?'"
Messi added: "They got the ball, gave it to the goalie and he
thumped it. And that was it. It's hard to believe a team that
reached last year's final and have been Premier League champions could play like
that."