Mario Melchiot

You could say more to a ref, but towards the end it started to get, every year it was getting less because the ref would pull out his cards and also use it against you in the sense of like, hey, if you say one more thing, then I book you.

Oh man, that, ooh, sometimes you want to let him have it, but you can't, so you just step back.

No, sometimes they can get in your head, but you know what the best thing, it took me a while to understand that, when they say something bad to you, it's better to give them a smile.

As soon as you smile to them, they clap for you.

So I was like, okay, that works.

So they will say like, cut your hair, cut your hair, and I'll be like...

And then they all go, okay, then they leave you alone.

Oh my God.

Yeah, no, just what Robbo said.

You know, like, I think Chelsea surprised them.

Why?

Because the way they set it up, you understand?

As soon as the game kicked off, you saw it from the first minute.

Regardless if they had the opportunity to score Barcelona, you could see that the energy and the way they were going after.

They stacked the midfield, you understand, because with James and Casero, they were, like, working really hard.

And they used the pace up front.

They didn't even start it with...

like a normal striker because Neto was the attacking player for them in the middle or even coming on the side sometimes.

But it was just good to see.

I think it was a team that normally is very comfortable and keeping the ball against a team that put a lot of energy and didn't give them a lot of time on the ball.