Face to face: Leo Messi against Chelsea of Thibaut Courtois

After some months of stop, the FC Barcelona will go back to get dressed of gala for a night of Champions, with a visit to a so dangerous opponent like Chelsea. The Catalans trust that Leo Messi was again the differential factor, and the Argentinian will have an important expensive to face with a rival complicated and a guardameta of maximum level, Thibaut Courtois.

The first time that the rosarino and the Belgian crossed his ways was in 2011 in the Camp Nou, in a party of LaLiga in which the '10' received to the new guardameta of the Athletic of Madrid with a hat-trick in what it was a 'manita' Barcelona. It promised them to him very happy after annotating him six targets in his first three clashes, but in December of 2012 the dynamics changed completely.

Because that went the last time that Messi drilled the networks of Courtois, that threw the bolt for the forward and attained to contain him in until seven back meetings. With the best of the world 'tied', also the results tiñeron of rojiblanco, and what had been a clear command culé step to hands 'colchoneras'.

The successes remained them to him the footballer of Bree before going back to Chelsea, of where arrived yielded to Vicente Calderón. And it is that the group that directed the Tata Martino was victim of the men of the Cholo Simeone, that in the course 2013-14 took down it of the Champions in quarter-finals and won him LaLiga in the Camp Nou, with a tie that certified the title in the last party of the cancerbero in Spain.

Chelsea, another torture

The balance against Chelsea is not much better, since it is the the rival to the that more times has confronted the Argentinian without having attained annotate. There are not a lot of rivals that can boast to having gone out indemnes of his duels, but definitely the londinenses are the black beast of the star culé.

The history against the 'blues' is a bitter way for Messi, with chapters that the attacker would wish to have not lived never. The last sucedió in April of 2012, when Leo had a penalti to put to the Barça in the final of the Champions and finish crashing it in the crossbar, confirming his curse in front of the group of Petr Cech and, as it revealed Alexis Sánchez, crying desconsolado in the changing room.

Challenge accepted

In spite of the negative perspectives, the big challenges are those that motivate to the '10', and if Chelsea appears like an insuperable wall, also seemed it the Juventus does some months. In the Camp Nou, in the first European meeting of Ernesto Valverde, Messi desquitó against the 'Vecchia Signora', another of his inexpugnables opponents, with a doublet in front of Gianluigi Buffon that encarriló a goleada of the Barça. And it wants to aim another victim in his file.