For Manchester United it is about the second "Treble" the club's history, team manager Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea for his job: When on Tuesday (20.45 clock / Sky) in the "Theatre of Dreams" of potential opponents, Schalke 04 semi-finals of the football Champions League is determined, stands for the English counterparts, the success of an entire season on the line.
Especially Ancelotti must tremble: For a quarter-final would be the last chance of the title Blues gone and the Italians may soon unemployed. "End Game" (final), headlined the tabloid The Sun with regard to the situation for the Blues, the Guardian wrote: "Ancelotti has 90 minutes to save his job." In both Cup competitions, the Double-winners failed , in the Premier League is to get to the third party no more.
"Everyone knows that we play to save our season. This is our most important game of the season, "said midfielder Yossi Benayoun, adding:" I am sure that when we beat United to win the trophy. The game on Tuesday is our final. Battle of Britain "Because in the semifinals by beating Schalke probably waiting for a supposedly adjustable opponent, the winner of the" may "already at the final 28th May at Wembley Stadium in London to plan, say the opponents.
Manchester has to a 1-0 victory in the quarter-final first leg at Chelsea is the better card, especially since the Blues are far from the vigorous football in recent years. Only twice a club in the Champions League after a home defeat in the first knockout game has yet to reach the next round.
Ancelotti is hoping that Chelsea is Ajax Amsterdam (1996 semi-final 0-1 / 3-0 against Panathinaikos Athens) and Inter Milan, turns off in the second round by FC Bayern Munich (0:1 / 3:2), will do the same. "I'm going to watch the first leg two or three times. I want to leave me something really special, "said the Italian.
That he will rely on unrestrained offensive, as little is likely. "We need only one goal, and we do not have to shoot in the very first minute," he says. The coach there is also the case that his team now has problems to "take all". This is especially true for 58-million-euro purchase Fernando Torres.
The striker has never even met in ten games for Chelsea. The Guardian sees Torres already "a Spanish Andrei Shevchenko. As once the Ukrainians Torres has been committed at the behest of club boss Roman Abramovich, Shevchenko as once it goes (still) not the team. "We have to give him more confidence, maybe he sees still the most important goals of our season," says Ancelotti.
The situation is much more relaxed at FC Barcelona, which the river in the round is the last four after taking a 5-1 first-leg against Shakhtar Donetsk hardly noticeable. The thoughts of the Catalans are already in the Clasico four days later at Real Madrid, the training was allowed to last even mitkicken Teen star Justin Bieber.
"We are our style does not change and suddenly start to defend tough," said striker Pedro: "We will like to attack to try again and to score goals." Goals against Donetsk would also boost the confidence for the league game against arch-rivals from Madrid . "We have a unique opportunity for a decisive step towards championship," said coach Pep Guardiola.
Barca that creates for the fourth consecutive year among the top four teams in Europe, doubts not even the enemy. Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu wants to avoid, first of all a renewed debacle. "On Tuesday we have our thoughts be with our job, or it may be bad for us," said the Romanian. 
Especially Ancelotti must tremble: For a quarter-final would be the last chance of the title Blues gone and the Italians may soon unemployed. "End Game" (final), headlined the tabloid The Sun with regard to the situation for the Blues, the Guardian wrote: "Ancelotti has 90 minutes to save his job." In both Cup competitions, the Double-winners failed , in the Premier League is to get to the third party no more.
"Everyone knows that we play to save our season. This is our most important game of the season, "said midfielder Yossi Benayoun, adding:" I am sure that when we beat United to win the trophy. The game on Tuesday is our final. Battle of Britain "Because in the semifinals by beating Schalke probably waiting for a supposedly adjustable opponent, the winner of the" may "already at the final 28th May at Wembley Stadium in London to plan, say the opponents.
Manchester has to a 1-0 victory in the quarter-final first leg at Chelsea is the better card, especially since the Blues are far from the vigorous football in recent years. Only twice a club in the Champions League after a home defeat in the first knockout game has yet to reach the next round.
Ancelotti is hoping that Chelsea is Ajax Amsterdam (1996 semi-final 0-1 / 3-0 against Panathinaikos Athens) and Inter Milan, turns off in the second round by FC Bayern Munich (0:1 / 3:2), will do the same. "I'm going to watch the first leg two or three times. I want to leave me something really special, "said the Italian.
That he will rely on unrestrained offensive, as little is likely. "We need only one goal, and we do not have to shoot in the very first minute," he says. The coach there is also the case that his team now has problems to "take all". This is especially true for 58-million-euro purchase Fernando Torres.
The striker has never even met in ten games for Chelsea. The Guardian sees Torres already "a Spanish Andrei Shevchenko. As once the Ukrainians Torres has been committed at the behest of club boss Roman Abramovich, Shevchenko as once it goes (still) not the team. "We have to give him more confidence, maybe he sees still the most important goals of our season," says Ancelotti.
The situation is much more relaxed at FC Barcelona, which the river in the round is the last four after taking a 5-1 first-leg against Shakhtar Donetsk hardly noticeable. The thoughts of the Catalans are already in the Clasico four days later at Real Madrid, the training was allowed to last even mitkicken Teen star Justin Bieber.
"We are our style does not change and suddenly start to defend tough," said striker Pedro: "We will like to attack to try again and to score goals." Goals against Donetsk would also boost the confidence for the league game against arch-rivals from Madrid . "We have a unique opportunity for a decisive step towards championship," said coach Pep Guardiola.
Barca that creates for the fourth consecutive year among the top four teams in Europe, doubts not even the enemy. Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu wants to avoid, first of all a renewed debacle. "On Tuesday we have our thoughts be with our job, or it may be bad for us," said the Romanian.
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